Example sentences of "[that] [pron] could [adv] [verb] and " in BNC.
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1 | I could not write anything here yesterday because I was too desolate at the thought that I could hot come and talk to you . |
2 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
3 | I was so tired with the journey and the entertainment that I could only walk and speak with difficulty for the next three days . |
4 | Another thing about being a qualified accountant is that I could always leave and do books at home . |
5 | She had been eating mechanically until now — the vol-au-vent , some olives , a sliver of cheese — trying unsuccessfully to drown the sensation of Tom 's kiss that she could still taste and feel so strongly on her lips , but , as soon as she bit into the juicy chicken wing with its sizzling red coating of spiced crumbs , her mouth began to burn with a very different feeling . |
6 | And we 've got technology there that we could perhaps use and export but we just leave it alone . |
7 | Why two such important Russian spies should have been placed in the same cell block so that they could freely meet and talk together is a mystery . |
8 | He asked the US government for favourable trade concessions for Colombia , Peru and Bolivia in US internal markets in order that they could successfully develop and promote non-traditional exports . |
9 | Er we said last week that the on the only , the only real way that the peasants were gon na er mobilize was if they , they thought that they could actually win and so surely the violence would have been a means of saying we 're a credible force to be reckoned with |
10 | She was nervous as she handed out the story , but she told it vividly , her body unconsciously acting out the story so that he could almost see and hear Rose and Dagmar . |