Example sentences of "[noun pl] that i could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I read all the books that I could find . |
| 2 | I began to read all the books that I could find about electricity and its terrible power . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've had doubts that I could play at this level but I 've had great support from everyone . ’ |
| 4 | I have no idea what I shall be doing even this time next year ; I have n't any achievements or even firm plans that I could offer you . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been told by my superiors that I could use it in the same way that I would to prosecute anyone found mistreating a dog . |
| 6 | Thus death has been ever close to me — so close that it seemed to me at times that I could reach out and touch it . |
| 7 | So the sort of things that are happening are happening everywhere and community care I think could be probably one of the areas that I could talk about at some length if you wanted to later on . |
| 8 | My aim was always to build working models that I could control . |
| 9 | For what is being suggested is that I knew today and not yesterday , despite the fact that there was no difference between the two days that I could tell at the time . |
| 10 | He was quite determined that I was going to try and escape , and followed so close behind me on the railway stations that I could smell his breath . |
| 11 | Er er always played football or tennis and I I played all sports that I could get hold of . |
| 12 | ‘ I was only a messenger but it was the closest job to actually being in films that I could get , ’ he told Expression magazine . |
| 13 | I thought of all the warm beds that I could have been in and I kneaded my fingers that were going numb with cold . |
| 14 | I believed for many years that I could move towards the future and leave the past behind , that there was no need for me to return home . |
| 15 | And Les said I ca n't believe this he said , I he said if you 'd have been in business ten years that I could understand but he said to do it your first |
| 16 | ‘ I was shit scared , and it was so hot under the lights that I could smell burning — my clothes were smouldering . |
| 17 | It was so hot under the lights that I could smell burning — my clothes were smouldering . |
| 18 | Other characters — swordfish , manatees , king penguins and Canada geese — had no names that I could remember . |
| 19 | While the nursing staff had been keenly following the implementation of the ENP , some of them did not seem to be familiar with my parameters of practice — I sometimes missed patients that I could have treated because they were not being filtered through to me . |
| 20 | And in fact , I get an awful lot of support from friends erm , not family because my family are n't , were n't aware of it , erm but I mean , really it came from fre , really close friends that I could sit down and talk to and that could understand me and accept me , just like what the girl said as well . |
| 21 | I like to read about my time and it was only really in the style magazines that I could get in touch with people of my generation — black or white . |
| 22 | Echo-sounding by bats is just one of the thousands of examples that I could have chosen to make the point about good design . |
| 23 | So is there anyone out there that has a similar machine that is now ‘ surplus to requirements that I could cannibalise for parts ? |
| 24 | Each time I chose the smallest flowers that I could find of each type — the larkspur flowers can range from this shape to nearly twice the size , so it will be worth while hunting through your collection of pressed items both to get some inspiration for your miniature and to determine your colour scheme . |
| 25 | I 've been quite frightened by what is happening in many areas of conservation and environment problems , and I decided that the best , one of the best , courses that I could take was to incorporate conservation in my work . |
| 26 | An example of the stunning effectiveness of this colour combination can be seen in my design using a very dark background and the brightest red roses that I could find ( see p. 6 ) . |
| 27 | But he had no injuries that I could see . |