Example sentences of "[adj] that he could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commissioner states in his report : ‘ Because it seemed to me that the Minister 's letter implied that the NHS had an absolute duty to provide care for the complainant 's father once it became clear that he could no longer meet the nursing home fees , I asked the DoH for clarification of the legal position and invited their general views . ’ |
| 2 | James Woodforde , ever a reliable source for the minutiae of late 18th-century life , wrote on 25 January 1794 that he could never remember having seen the barometer lower ; a savage and relentless winter was setting in throughout Britain and the rest of Europe . |
| 3 | The illness and its treatment had left him bald and so weak that he could hardly stand , but throughout the spring and summer he gradually regained his fitness . |
| 4 | Sometimes they would stroll under the leafy canopies of the Mardyke , where the river was not a river at all but a stream — his father used to say that you could n't even call it a branch of the Lee , perhaps a twig at best — often dried-up in summer and so narrow that he could nearly have jumped across it if he had been allowed ; at other times their route would take them down the Marina where the river was a broad rink-like expanse that copied in shimmering reflections the haughty hills of Montenotte drawing themselves up from its other side . |
| 5 | Of course Hayward 's physical condition was such that he could no longer live alone — he had spent the war years as a guest of the Rothschilds in Cambridge and there must have been an element of sympathy or even pity in Eliot 's invitation to him ; the presence of old-fashioned Yankee rectitude in his character , and the quiet acceptance of " duty " in his role as Hayward 's companion and helper , can not be ignored . |
| 6 | Has the hon. Gentleman , who reads with his lips so much that he could almost give lessons to the Leader of the Opposition , read the amendment which deals with precisely this issue ? |
| 7 | He wanted to be with her so much that he could hardly breathe . |
| 8 | But his hands were shaking so much that he could hardly stop himself knocking the food off the plate . |
| 9 | At first the result was that his lungs hurt so much that he could hardly stand up . |
| 10 | It was a great day when he found , not so much that he could still play , but that he still wanted to . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps not , ’ Travis agreed , then said how he 'd dearly love to ring Rosemary at her parents ' home , but that he knew for sure that he could definitely give up even the frail hope he had left of sharing his life with Rosemary if he did that . |
| 12 | Although an operation on his upper jaw at Leicester Infirmary in about 1882 had removed most of the bony ‘ trunk ’ protruding from his mouth , his appearance was so repulsive that he could only go outside heavily disguised in a long black cloak , a peaked cap , and a mask . |
| 13 | Later they went shopping in the markets and bought her red plastic plates and incense and spaghetti and him a copper kettle and a book so heavy that he could hardly carry it he said . |
| 14 | But if it is inconceivable that he could successfully shepherd nervous unionists through new talks with their nationalist counterparts and Dublin , equally his head can not be sacrificed in a Labour-Unionist deal to take Neil Kinnock to Downing Street . |
| 15 | By the last week of August the mortal sickness in the wards had become so general that he could no longer hope to pray individually with the dying . |
| 16 | Citrine , who , despite his wrangles with Gaitskell , was keen that Labour should win , warned in the summer of 1951 that he could no longer hold back the Area Board chairmen from politically damaging attacks on the Government if the investment controls were not relaxed . |
| 17 | Kirov did not seem unduly disappointed that he could no longer help him . |
| 18 | She can not do this , pleading that surely loving him now is enough , but this does not fit into Gatsby 's dream and he can not accept this , ‘ his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it ’ , but it was he , himself , who finally stood in the way of fulfilment . |
| 19 | This is used because Saint Francis was supposed to be so gentle that he could actually speak to the birds . |
| 20 | D. N. Pritt in his autobiography told of his many political cases and of one which ‘ came before a judge of great experience and knowledge , so bitterly opposed to anything left-wing that he could scarcely have given a fair trial if he had tried ’ . |
| 21 | Doublethink had entered so completely into Ceauşescu 's soul by the 1980s that he could genuinely bask in what he took to be sincere affection at the same time as he knew how stage-managed the whole event was . |