Example sentences of "[adv] that no [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leslie Brown told us adamantly that no one could possibly have tampered with either the fodder or the water . |
| 2 | When the Pack met the following week the broken fence had been repaired and the DANGER notice repainted in vivid red , so that no one could miss seeing it . |
| 3 | ‘ She is a dragon , ’ said Dinah , ‘ but she keeps me from annoyance , and Papa had the room designed so that no one could get straight in . ’ |
| 4 | I do n't believe she heard me because she yawned , handed me the key and told me to hang it round my neck so that no one could take it from me . |
| 5 | My girlfriend had put her handbag between her feet under her chair so that no one could pinch it . |
| 6 | They would admit nothing ; they sat there like stones , and their one aim was to sit there like stones , so that no one could tell if they cared or did not care , so that there should be no difference between caring and not caring . |
| 7 | From the moment that La Pietra 's anchor was safely biting ( again , watch those mooring chains ) , a superb air of idleness overtook everyone on board , so much so that no one could be bothered to put up the awning and we lay and baked in the sweltering afternoon heat . |
| 8 | According to our companions , the workmen who made the tombs were killed after they had done the job , so that no one could find out exactly where the tomb was . |
| 9 | Most meditatively — remember Drury Lane , he murmured , and , his favourite whip and spur , ‘ Attack , boy , attack ! ’ — so meditatively that no one could fail to be impressed by the inner preoccupation of the handsome gentleman in Hessian boots who ruminated across the turf , he paced a slow , measured entrance to the very central point of the circle without once raising his gaze from the earth or his head from the cusp of a hand which supported its pensive load . |