Example sentences of "[noun sg] that could [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She ran a hand through her hair and then took the jade necklace in her hand and began to rub her fingers over it , as if it was a magic charm that could somehow protect her . |
| 2 | But they failed to reduce the size sufficiently and ended up with a prototype that could n't record anything — so the engineers used it to play their favourite music cassettes while they worked . |
| 3 | A mighty drum intro that could definitely handle itself in a fight with the mighty drum intro in Ride 's ‘ Dreams Burn Down ’ . |
| 4 | OLD mates Graham Gooch and Keith Fletcher are just one more defeat away from a crisis that could seriously threaten their international partnership . |
| 5 | There were too many unsavoury characters lurking about , and Cissie was not only young and pretty but had a friendly loving nature that could easily lead her into trouble . |
| 6 | Gradually they are building up a resistance to a sting that could otherwise kill them . |
| 7 | It blazed naked out of a sky that could not remember what cloud was . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , let me tell you , there 's nothing in the world that could ever tear me away from this place . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You knew how he could get if his acting was n't working out — it was about the only thing that could really bring him down . ’ |
| 10 | He needs it because I suspect he 's hooked on the secrecy and excitement that could easily make him run off again . ’ |
| 11 | Suddenly , as we were walking on , we heard the dogs barking in that frantic , menacing way that could only mean they 'd given chase . |
| 12 | Such famous errors surely resulted not from incompetence , but from Cortot 's nervous , high-pitched intensity ; a sheer involvement that could easily cloud his composure or unsettle his equilibrium . |
| 13 | William Wellman , who directed Beau Geste in 1939 , said of Brian Donlevy , who played the sadistic sergeant in that film , ‘ I 've never seen a guy that could completely get everybody to dislike him as he could . ’ |