Example sentences of "[pron] that [pers pn] could [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 864 a royal assembly at Pîtres near Rouen dealt with the problem ( without indicating how widespread it was ) of migrant wage-workers in vineyards : clearly some landlords were short of labour at least at harvest-time , and to persuade such migrants to return to their original farms were willing to reassure them that they could keep their earnings . |
| 2 | By diminishing the outward evidence of his authority almost to the point of invisibility , he demonstrated to the people and perhaps more importantly to himself that he could perform his duties not only without resort to force but without any discernible support at all : like Hugh Clifford 's Sir Philip Hanbury-Erskine choosing to deal with rebellion not as a governor but as ‘ a man ’ , he was effacing not himself but his institutional context . |
| 3 | He was so near her that she could smell his cool lemony cologne . |
| 4 | Armies would leave Lebanon this way in the future , firing into its hinterland to persuade themselves that they could abuse their tormentors to the end . |
| 5 | Encouraged by management theorists , big firms convinced themselves that they could apply their existing pool of manufacturing and management experience to any business . |
| 6 | As we filmed the elephants in Amboseli National Park , East Africa , the animals sometimes wandered so close to us that we could hear their trunks ripping the grass and their stomachs churning . |