Example sentences of "that [pron] could [vb infin] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never imagined that I could feel this way about anyone , but I do . ’ |
| 2 | At that point , it was accepted that I could use this material as a contribution to a Ph.D . |
| 3 | It was hard to believe that this generously smiling woman was the same predatory creature she 'd been watching just a moment ago — but the image she had seen was seared in her brain , and suddenly she knew there was no way in the world that she could allow this woman to be a mother to Kirsty . |
| 4 | Sir er you hinted that er if there are to be further written representations you 'd be looking to directing a cutoff date , and you hinted at I think tomorrow as being one possibility sir , so that you could leave this enquiry on Wednesday with all the papers you need and receive nothing more by way of written representation , evidence or any other documentation whatsoever . |
| 5 | If I 'm depressed at all it is that I think that you could make this process slightly less obtrusive and violent and spark-generating if there was more systematic analysis and discussion beforehand , going back a long way . |
| 6 | And I think we were all slightly sort of surprised that we could have this sort of effect . |
| 7 | It is the speaker 's intention and the addressee 's successful location of the intended referent that matter in the first usage , not the exact aptness of the description , so that we could call this usage speaker reference ( as opposed to semantic reference ; Donnellan , 1978 ; Kaplan , 1978 ) . |
| 8 | We had waybills that we could extract this information from but it was n't so accurate because man was n't required to record the erm numbers of each class of ticket . |
| 9 | In the past , schools felt that they could influence this environment . |
| 10 | Could he now make her his partner so that they could investigate this mystery together ? |
| 11 | The first conceptualization had then to be changed so that it could handle this happening . |
| 12 | PAKISTAN captain Imran Khan ( left ) said yesterday that he could miss this summer 's tour to England because of a shoulder injury . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had little conviction that he could fulfil this role properly , his own experience of being fathered having been so grossly inadequate . |
| 15 | Riven realised with no surprise that he could love this world and its people , despite the heartbreak it had wrought on him . |
| 16 | He had gone to Peterborough and worked long hours in a canning factory only so that he could own this bike . |