Example sentences of "that [pron] could make a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're so plausible that I could make a case for you . |
| 2 | And it says much that you could make a racer out of the RS road car with a few hours notice . |
| 3 | Many of them had had sex with other gays , but few of them had accepted that you could make a way of life out of it . |
| 4 | Well do you think that you could make a ‘ bit of a window ’ for the Church ? ’ |
| 5 | While the other patients crowded outside and Miss Sowerby tried to keep them in order , Alec motioned to the father to carry the boy into the ‘ ops ’ theatre and lay him down on his back on the operating table so that we could make a more detailed examination . |
| 6 | Er , that 's a difficult question because we bought er anywhere we could er , and where we thought there was leather that we could make a small profit on . |
| 7 | And I instanced Bob Geldof as someone whose commitment to the problem of hunger had certainly got things done , and inspired millions of people to see ( even if only transiently ) that they could make a contribution to a problem that they had previously held in their minds , albeit not very consciously , as ‘ not mine ’ and ‘ hopeless ’ . |
| 8 | It was quite a drive and quite a list for when she got there , so she was unlikely to be back before the early evening ; but this was no great problem , because they 'd soon be closing the doors so that they could make a start on the next day 's preparations . |
| 9 | There the government even lent ceremonial costumes from the treasury to poor members of the tsar 's council , the boyarskaya duma , so that they could make a suitably impressive show when an envoy from the west was officially received in Moscow . |
| 10 | That means not only that the BA could save money , but that it could make a bob or two by catering for the assembled hacks . |
| 11 | He found that he could make a speech — that is , he could think on his feet , and not be at a loss for words . |
| 12 | He half hoped she would give him one of them by mistake so that he could make a scene , but she did n't . |
| 13 | ‘ They do n't mind so much now I 've got a few trophies in a case that they can show their friends and boast about it , ’ Carlos Francis recollected his parents ' change of posture after it became evident that he could make a career out of soccer . |
| 14 | He did this with very little effort , and I gave him small wooden cubes so that he could make a cube to keep . |
| 15 | Following a short interview about the further offence , the officer whom he had requested to see told him that he could not ask him any questions about the early offence for which he had already been charged but said that he could make a statement if he wished . |
| 16 | My master finally realized that he could make a fortune by showing me to people all over the country . |
| 17 | Of course , this group at Ephesus must have heard something about the Holy Spirit if they listened at all attentively to John the Baptist , but they did not realise that the promised Spirit was available for them ; that he could make a difference to their lives . |
| 18 | Well , she felt in a fighting mood , and if he thought that he could make a fool of her in front of his girlfriend then he was in for a big surprise . |
| 19 | Ali was shocked that anyone could make a mistake so gross . |