Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] that [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly I realised that I could n't go on anymore . |
| 2 | So I knew that I could go out again and get another caution , that 's why I did it , really . |
| 3 | So he said that they could perhaps take a look round to see were there any secluded windows anywhere or any openings where they might just squeeze through . |
| 4 | Conversely I discovered that it could cut with the disc flat , or at a slight angle , and I can see it having benefits for very fine work . |
| 5 | Conscious that if she accepted his presence at Thorsbury without protest , her chance to remove him was gone , nevertheless she felt that she could now handle the man . |
| 6 | Soon he realized that he could wound with words , teasing his sister mercilessly . |
| 7 | Michael Holly had been a prisoner of the camp for less than one month , and already he believed that he could walk this path with his eyes closed . |
| 8 | And once I realised that I could swap this grievous toil for a life of tropical beaches , sweet-thighed maidens and minimal taxation , well , you can see how the choice became all-too simple . |
| 9 | But a second later I knew that they could not , or could no more plausibly than the glove , be hers . |
| 10 | Now she felt that she could have used Phoebe in her struggle with Fenna . |
| 11 | Now she thought that she could give it up for three weeks in the Italian sun . |
| 12 | He asked if he could stay with them , and eventually they agreed that he could , but only if he worked . |
| 13 | ‘ Nobody believes it was my idea , ’ he sighs , ‘ But about eight months ago I explained that I could n't carry on working those hours . |
| 14 | ‘ Nobody believes it was my idea , ’ he sighs , ‘ But about eight months ago I explained that I could n't carry on working those hours . |
| 15 | And er later on when he Well he got that he could n't carry on with it , you see . |
| 16 | Then I realized that I could hear an engine getting louder and the Shogun was bouncing across the Paddock straight towards me . |
| 17 | ’ But then I found that I could , after all . ’ |
| 18 | But , even there I knew that I could not have rejoiced . |
| 19 | Its introduction into British schools for the deaf , first by the Rev. Thomas Arnold at Northampton in 1868 then by Mr. William Van Praagh at 11 , Fitzroy Square , London in 1872 , rapidly spread , especially after 1880 , until it came to be both detested and feared by leading deaf people everywhere who saw that it could — and indeed as it did — seriously damage the systems of education that had served so well since the growth of deaf education . |
| 20 | But then he saw that he could not afford to believe her , because if he did he would allow her a tactical advantage , a small victory that should lead to greater ones . |
| 21 | Working alongside other pioneers he was first spontaneously discovering new possibilities in camera technique and then he found that he could equally spontaneously draw on his experiences and his own values . |
| 22 | Certainly I was asked about this er well before the er E I P er and we agreed that there w Well certainly I agreed that I could see nothing wrong with that since it is a cl closed research project , and nothing will be divulged at all er publicly . |
| 23 | ‘ but essentially I said that we could use other solutions to expand the blood , but that they were not as effective as blood at transporting oxygen . |