Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [adv] [that] [pron] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to wheedle the information out of him , but Capron said he was the senior case officer on the investigation into Mills , and could confirm absolutely that it was Mills who was the Soviet agent who had betrayed my father . |
| 2 | He could see now that she was placed in an almost similar position , for with Martin marrying , she was once more being cast adrift . |
| 3 | They could see now that he was a big fellow , sleek and handsome . |
| 4 | He could see now that it was a distorted papier maché sculpture , luridly coloured in red . |
| 5 | She took her foot off the accelerator and put it on the brake , and as the car slowed she could see now that it was a child , a toddler with a red woolly hat on . |
| 6 | Owen could see now that it was a man . |
| 7 | He could see now that there was a driver in each of the police cars . |
| 8 | Braden stepped in closer and the ex-soldier looked up , almost straight up , and you could see then that he was afraid but trying hard not to show it . |
| 9 | I could conclude only that he was finding the job too big for him , and was himself under stress , which he relieved by persecuting a subordinate who was particularly vulnerable . |
| 10 | In itself it could mean nothing ; in regard to him it could mean only that he was mad . |