Example sentences of "[pron] that [noun] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing that Trent could do on deck . |
| 2 | Searching around for a related but cooperative proposition that B might be intending to convey , we arrive at the opposite , or negation , of what B has stated namely that Britain does n't rule the seas , and thus by way of Relevance to the prior utterance , the suggestion that there is nothing that Britain could do . |
| 3 | And in fact there was nothing that Willis could do about the boxes . |
| 4 | There was nothing that Ramsay could do now save return to the castle . |
| 5 | But it saddens me that people could send death threats because they do n't agree with something . |
| 6 | ( It just goes to show you that Henry could fool anyone , and invariably did . |
| 7 | When Rebecca Kraemer remarked , as the last murmurs of the slow movement died away , that it was such a pity the conductor was still following the now-discredited Haas edition , she was telling everyone within earshot — which included half the audience — everything that Alison could have wanted them to know but naturally would n't have dreamt of mentioning herself . |
| 8 | It was everything that Burton could have hoped for in the West End at that time . |
| 9 | Perhaps even when Liawski had been warden , but that was n't something that Reynolds could expect to remember . |
| 10 | Charitable work was also something that daughters could do without prejudicing their chances in the marriage market . |
| 11 | ‘ I was mainly concerned with making something that children could enjoy and not feel that this was a special programme for them , avoiding all the twee and awful things people normally put into children 's programmes . |
| 12 | She was puzzled only by the unmistakable largesse of the confidence proffered to her , because try as she might , she could not persuade herself that Clelia could talk like this , so wittily and intimately and inquiringly , to everyone ; she could not believe that she could talk like this to many . |
| 13 | She told herself that things could have been worse . |
| 14 | Councillors and officials will tell him that Orkney could have faced a disaster if the Bettina Danica had been a tanker . |
| 15 | The case of Timothy Evans , however , who had been hanged in 1950 after conviction for murder partly on the evidence of John Christie , also convicted and executed for murder three years later , had convinced him that mistakes could occur . |
| 16 | First , there is no evidence whatever that Saddam could have been forced out ; sanctions were simply not credible faced with such a despot . |
| 17 | He lived in 1935 ( when I last saw him ) in the utmost simplicity , although if he had been a little more conciliatory he could always have earned enough for his comfort — and his wife 's ; but he never valued anything that money could buy as he valued the integrity of his sharp-shooting mind . |
| 18 | He could have had anything that money could buy to cure him , but I can see it 's too late now . ’ |
| 19 | That trip must have revived Nicolae 's memories of his time in Stalin 's Moscow , but the frenzied adulation of Mao surpassed anything that Ceauşescu could have witnessed in the Soviet Union . |