Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once he frogmarched a knocker out of a press conference , although it transpired that he could hardly wait to see what the victim wrote next . |
| 2 | Some writers ( e.g. Maslow ) in the sixties and seventies proposed that we could rank these needs into a hierarchy and predict the order in which individuals would try to satisfy their ‘ needs ’ . |
| 3 | He referred Dawn to a neurosurgeon , who promised that he could operate to cure the spasticity which kept causing her muscles to tense up involuntarily . |
| 4 | The sadness of what is in effect the breakup of the comprehensive system is that it occurs at the point when the system was reaching a confidence and maturity which demonstrated that it could meet the demands of the late twentieth century . |
| 5 | Karrimor 's project development engineer demonstrated that he could do shoulder high kicks just as easily wearing with its 20kg load as without . |
| 6 | In a moment of optimism my wife told me not to worry and pronounced that I could live perfectly well on one lung . |
| 7 | In May 1314 they maintained that they could be taxed only in their own assemblies ; when Edward tried to proceed through parliament he often found himself thwarted — as in January 1316 — by the inadequate attendance of the clergy . |
| 8 | The British Trias is almost completely lacking in marine fossils below the Rhaetian , but I maintained that one could nevertheless see the effects of alpine transgressions reflected in our continental sediments . |
| 9 | James maintained that he could issue dispensations from the provisions of this Act by the royal prerogative , an opinion which was upheld by the judges in the test case of Godden v. Hales in June 1686 , although it required a purge of the judicial bench to achieve a verdict favourable to the Crown . |
| 10 | Foreign teachers of English often joked that they could not pass TOEFL , but for the Chinese students it was no laughing matter . |
| 11 | Hope had written an evasive reply which he would frank and give to George Wood to post for him but he doubted that he could deter him for much longer . |
| 12 | After a closer inspection of the young man , I doubted that he could help anyone . |
| 13 | She blushed guiltily as she realised he had refused a sweet , opting just for coffee , but then , she doubted that anything could test his willpower and not lose . |
| 14 | By 1938 the Unemployment Insurance Statutory Committee ad-mitted that it could not increase dependants ' benefits without pushing the level of unemployment benefit for the family man above the level of many workers earnings . |
| 15 | About 12 months ago Innes mentioned that he could be interested in a rugby league offer after the World Cup , and so it was not a surprise that he was tagged by the cheque-book boys in Britain . |
| 16 | The idea of finding out about the , the batsman was what he did in the cricket team , so that when I mentioned that I could say |
| 17 | She absorbed influences around her indiscriminately , like blotting paper , and was so busy , strident and involved that she could never draw back to see things as they really were . |
| 18 | Benson was a large , calm man in his early sixties , grey of hair , cherubic and cheerful of countenance , and wearing a sports jacket , flannels and polo jersey , all of varying shades of grey and all so lived in , comfortable and crumpled that he could well have inherited them from his grandfather . |
| 19 | The supermarkets then found that they could charge bigger margins on goods that were peripheral to their core business , processed foods . |
| 20 | The Poles found that they could not impose any kind of law and order until they knew the exact borders they had been given , and as each day passed they became more and more desperate for a final decision . |
| 21 | The Kaszubes in Danzig and Germany found that they could not export their produce to Poland economically simply because Polish produce was cheaper , and in the Corridor they could not export their produce to Germany effectively because , as far as the Germans were concerned , the Kaszubes were Polish . |
| 22 | Marathon runners finishing after 2 hours 45 minutes found that they could not get into the stadium after a 26 mile 385 yard slog in 90F temperatures . |
| 23 | Patterson trained her subjects to ask questions when they found that they could not choose between competing referents . |
| 24 | Even after the passing of minimum-wage legislation in 1909 , as many as 42 per cent of the homeworkers in the trades covered by the Acts found that they could not earn the statutory minimum . |
| 25 | Attfield and Duck ( 1982 ) found that they could reject the rational expectations theory of the term structure of interest rates when they applied the above model to three-monthly , five-yearly and ten-yearly rates of interest in the UK . |
| 26 | This does not , however , mean that the peasantry were contented , nor does it prove that they were particularly prosperous ; rather it suggests that the peasantry found that they could secure their aims more effectively by passive resistance and the exploitation of their economic power than by violence . |
| 27 | Lieberman and Michaels ( 1962 ) found that they could get reasonably accurate recognition of attitudes using short recording of sentences spoken in different ways , but that when the recordings were distorted in such a way that most acoustic information was removed ( e.g. the speech sounds , voice quality , loudness variations etc. ) leaving only the pitch information — that part traditionally equated with intonation — listeners ' ability to recognise the attitudes was seriously reduced . |
| 28 | Tower Hamlets found that they could not decentralize Social Services , for example , because of the statutory requirement to have a Social Services Committee , but everything else they 've erm within the overall Council policy , which is decided by all the Councillors , they 've decentralized a great deal of the powers down to these local groups of Councillors , and where the Labour control the areas they control these local Councils , and where the Liberal Democrats control them they control them , and I think it 's working very well . |
| 29 | ‘ Great , ’ he reiterated , ‘ sampled a bit of the local night-life , lost a few francs at the gambling tables , and then found that we could n't drag ourselves away from each other , so we spent the night in a hotel . ’ |
| 30 | No , no , that would n't worry me , I just , I said when we got rid of our other sideboard let's do without one and then I looked round and thought well what the dickens am I going to do with all this stuff that we 've got and I just found that we could n't do without it . |