Example sentences of "that [pron] could [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I tried embroidery I was ashamed that I could only produce ugliness from the beautiful silks . |
| 2 | Louise picked out a pretty little pink dress that nobody could possibly take exception to and so honour was satisfied . |
| 3 | It terrified her , that she could so lose control in the arms of this man who was everything she despised , who despised her , who wanted her for what he thought she was . |
| 4 | She once told me that she could never commit suicide because of her curiosity about what was going to happen next . |
| 5 | They 're they 're the sort of things that you could never get hold of , you know , that we always kept ourselves . |
| 6 | He and his family would retire for a while from public gaze , so that they could privately give vent to their grief at the loss of that larger-than-life figure who had seemed immortal … |
| 7 | So easily did the rational fear of not being able to exchange their products so advantageously merge , for a whole generation , into the absurdity of supposing that they could somehow have access to a source of wealth other than their own production . |
| 8 | Despite all the responsibilities and experience of these delegates , it is sad that they could only view research as relative to one problem , admittedly an important one , rather than to key issues of the service . |
| 9 | The selectors , though , clearly consider that they could still have need of the towering mass of Dooley 's physical presence . |
| 10 | In either event , I believe that it could only cause confusion if we were dealing with more than one previous life at a time . |
| 11 | Whenever Preston said anything that sounded remotely like Famous Last Words , he always said something else quickly , something so trite and meaningless that it could never tempt Fate . |
| 12 | Thomas Meehan , one-time caretaker of the Bartram Garden , stressed his early dedication , ‘ So earnest was John Bartram in the pursuit of learning that he could scarcely spare time to eat and might often have been seen with food in one hand and a book in the other . |
| 13 | I mean it was what , what and if you go through all the papers you can see that , that Robert Maxwell really saw that self regulation erm legislation being that he could finally get control through an investment management company of his pension funds . |
| 14 | At least now , today , she could ease his suffering , help him forget Madeleine for a little while , make him see that he could still find happiness of a kind without her . |
| 15 | Newspapers printed a photograph of a letter to a flood-control committee bearing Mr Li 's signature , so it was assumed that he could still put pen to paper . |
| 16 | In the midst of this pain and uncertainty , the wonder is that he could still produce work . |
| 17 | The great virtue of Cagney to the Hollywood set-up was that he could realistically depict anger , violence , and meanness without in any way suggesting that he was personally a worthless villain or that the film in which he was appearing was deliberately condoning these unpleasant qualities . |
| 18 | In one of his rare public reflective moments , he looked back on the three women in his early life , Mud , Lorraine and June , with gratitude because they gave him a good start , independence and the belief that he could always take care of himself , come what may . |
| 19 | The author also hinted yesterday at fresh scandals to come which would damage Prince Charles ' reputation so badly that he could never become King . |