Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] that [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Force the other party to try hard to get your attention and let them know or think that they could lose out to someone else . |
| 2 | Often they will comment that they did it deliberately , for some poor reason or other , or say that they could , of course , have touched down earlier if they had really tried . |
| 3 | In showing off to the raw recruits he might even throw the small plane into such daring bankings or dives that it could n't be manoeuvred out of . |
| 4 | Not once had he spoken of his love for her , or said that he could wait for her too . |
| 5 | It was won because Labour was the party of high taxation , because the Conservative Party presented an alternative , and because most electors neither admired Mr Kinnock nor believed that he could deliver the promises that he was making . |
| 6 | While the media perceived test-tube fusion to be a solution to the world 's energy problems , it was the possibility of these cells being an intense source of neutrons , and probably of tritium too , that meant that they could have significant military application . |
| 7 | A blind person remarked : ‘ If someone said to me ‘ You 'd better not do this placement ’ then I 'd rather walk to Australia on my hands than admit that I could n't . ’ |
| 8 | To touch a dead man or to come into contact with the blood of an injured person would make them unclean and mean that they could not carry out their duties . |
| 9 | He looked up , and realized that he could n't see the other side of the quarry . |
| 10 | A High Court judge on Friday made Gemma a ward of court and ruled that she could not be approached by the media . |
| 11 | My feet were sometimes so painful and swollen that I could only walk with my heels out of my shoes . |
| 12 | By lunchtime the next day , her eyes were so sore and swollen that she could hardly see . |
| 13 | He averted his eyes quickly , and realised that he could now no longer see the ground through the dragon . |
| 14 | Mr James Munby , who is representing 21-year-old Tony 's interests , told Lords Keith , Goff , Lowry , Browne-Wilkinson and Mustill that he could live on for decades . |
| 15 | On the other hand , T. Rex might have looked really good but everything else about them was so naïve and teenybopperish that you could n't really admit to your mates that you liked them . |
| 16 | ‘ I was so nervous and fatigued that I could n't concentrate . |
| 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 | To actually meet a man she did n't find boring , a man who could make her feel , and to know that nothing could ever come of it ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In a moment of optimism my wife told me not to worry and pronounced that I could live perfectly well on one lung . |
| 21 | Then I had to be honest , and say that I could not guarantee to work for longer than four months . |
| 22 | At that same moment , however , Travis , who had appeared equally dumbstruck , seemed to come to and realise that he could no longer continue to speak openly of his love or his problems . |
| 23 | The most upsetting thing for me has been to see her medical notes and realise that she could have got the right treatment at home … that is if her country was n't being torn apart by war |
| 24 | " It 's just a trick , really , it 's easy , " said Clara , and she took back the egg , and found that she could not put it together again either , so they decided to abandon it , and left it in little pieces in a glass dish on the mantelpiece with some dry and coloured gourds , and then they went downstairs and out into the park , and walked towards the bus stop , and Clara explained , lest the gourds and the egg should be thought to reflect in any way on herself , that they had been given to her by a friend the week before , to celebrate her twenty-second birthday . |
| 25 | She made a few attempts and found that she could not work , she could not even read . |
| 26 | Feeling quite ill and willing himself not to look down , he stretched up and found that he could just reach the circular window . |
| 27 | In 1919 he joined the staff of the London Homoeopathic Hospital as pathologist and bacteriologist , and found that he could use the homoeopathic method of potentization to prepare his vaccines which he was then able to give by mouth instead of by injection . |
| 28 | Rostov tried to sit up and found that he could not . |
| 29 | ‘ My own kind , ’ she replied , and getting ready to put a few questions from her list , she paused to smile — and found that he could find his questions faster . |
| 30 | since I am one of those people who do something the wrong way round , if there is the slightest opportunity , I also inserted the needle incorrectly the first time only spotting my mistake when I read on and found that I could not follow the next instruction if my needle was at the back of the work . |