Example sentences of "that [pron] could [verb] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , it was like a relief that I could talk to him about being pregnant . |
| 2 | And I just found that I could talk to her , and I think she to me . |
| 3 | Said you were top brass and that I could talk to you as if you were the Commissioner himself . " |
| 4 | is something that I would not say to a French lady , something that I could say to my daughter , right ? |
| 5 | It was sufficiently central that I could get to my university department or the College in my electric wheelchair . |
| 6 | She then hesitated , waiting for him to leave the office so that she could speak to her father in private , but he made no move to do so . |
| 7 | ‘ Promise you wo n't tell him , ’ Travis interrupted , and Leith knew then that she could talk to him until she was blue in the face , but he was just not hearing . |
| 8 | She told him that as soon as she had some money she wanted to buy some decent clothes , the kind that she could wear to her work in the evenings . |
| 9 | Breeze was fond of Schumann , but not so fond that she could listen to him now ! |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , great , ’ she said , and she hitched up her dress so that she could get to her feet ; there was simply no elegant way of doing it . |
| 11 | Ellen , I would that you could come to me now that you are alone and would ask you to consider it seriously . |
| 12 | And er the pills , all different sorts of pills , , Doctor pills , er there was all kinds of pills in those days that you could take to you know , to stop you from having them you see . |
| 13 | That we could introduce to our neighbours first they came through the door . |
| 14 | I thought that it was very polite that we should go there in the evening and assess for ourselves exactly the harm th the possible harm that it could do to their gardens at the back and and that 's why we did that . |
| 15 | The way in which some of the subsidies work is ludicrous , but had we been there at the beginning , we might have been able to reform it so that it could work to our advantage . |
| 16 | All adults need to learn about solvent abuse and to be aware that it could happen to their children . |
| 17 | All of them lived with a nervous expectation that it could happen to them . |
| 18 | She had read of this sort of thing often enough ; she had heard of its happening to other people — even to people she knew — but she had never for one moment imagined that it could happen to her . |
| 19 | Valenzuela 's experience suggest — disturbingly — that it could happen to anyone . |
| 20 | But though she had wished things might have been different , she consoled herself with the knowledge that it could come to nothing . |
| 21 | I was shaking with embarrassment that he could talk to me in this way at all , as if he knew me , as if he had the right to question me . |
| 22 | It was almost as if he had chosen this quiet tunnel in a relatively quiet station so that he could sing to himself undisturbed , carry on singing without having to admit to himself that this was a hopeless task , that he was n't going to get anything . |
| 23 | I often sleep in my coat , ’ he backed away from her , all the way towards the door ; then on the landing , and for no reason that he could give to himself , he turned and ran not towards his bedroom but across the landing , over the gallery , down the stairs , through the hall to the front door . |
| 24 | Lord only knew when the telephone was going to be installed in the house , but if that man thought that he could speak to her however he wanted , safe in the knowledge that she was incommunicado , then he had another think coming . |
| 25 | Jimmy saw him coming through blurred vision and wished that he could get to his feet , but he could n't move . |
| 26 | You do n't , that 's why I asked whether Richard could join your committee so that he could voice to you the things he tried to explain to me which I think are |