Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [adv] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm finding out things about her that I never could have known . ’ |
| 2 | As she endeavoured to come to terms with the realities of her marriage and royal life , there were moments in those early years when Diana sensed that she actually could cope and could make a positive contribution to the royal family and the wider nation . |
| 3 | We look at the work of a minimalist and think to ourselves that she too could paint like that . |
| 4 | Mrs gave up her voluntary employment in order that she too could assist full time . |
| 5 | Ariel , watching , wished that she too could defy the bonds that tied her to the earth , and her blood leapt with Dulé 's ascent . |
| 6 | There were many women who thought they knew him intimately , and each believed that she alone could unravel the knot of his heart . |
| 7 | There was everything that you particularly could want from a grand piano to a pin sold in Main Street . |
| 8 | Do you remember when I said er as we were going through I said there were one or two things that you perhaps could help me with ? |
| 9 | The roads were so empty in those days that you really could enjoy driving it fast . |
| 10 | IF you want to visit a city of such apparent cleanliness that you really could dine off the pavements , make your destination Dusseldorf . |
| 11 | Actually , in a sense they are acting in their own best interests : the whole point of the life/dinner principle is that they theoretically could resist manipulation but it would be too costly to do so . |
| 12 | Yet even when they see Japanese methods being successfully introduced to this country , British managers are still reluctant to accept that they too could try co-operation with the workforce in place of confrontation . |
| 13 | However , it is likely that they too could use the channel by bouncing their calls off the continental shelves which slope down into it . |
| 14 | They advocated the promotion of party schools at the guberniia level to speed up the educational attainments of local leaders so that they really could set the tone in political culture in sufficient numbers without having to depend so much on shaky agents . |
| 15 | Some people seemed genuinely changed by the weekend : they learned that they really could give or receive love . |
| 16 | Atkins interrupted and said that they certainly could make it stick . |
| 17 | The committee , evidently nettled by this slur , informed Mr. R. G. Rose , the coroner for the North Bedfordshire district , that the council had , in fact , done all that they possibly could to get nurses but without success . |
| 18 | McRae and Cairncross ( 1984,2 ) argue that the growth of the City originated in the large volume of government borrowing in the eighteenth century to pay for Britain 's foreign wars ; the Industrial Revolution took place almost independently of the City , which thereby showed that it perhaps could survive on its financial wits as a major service centre . |
| 19 | To go to the one man in the world most interested in seeing that the evidence never came out and then to put into his hands the means of ensuring that it never could come out ! |
| 20 | He knew of course that he never could meet them , but he wanted so badly to talk to them that he would get out their letters and pictures from his box of papers and talk quietly to them anyway . |
| 21 | He felt a strange exhilaration that he too could play the game of these city slickers , to repay evil for evil as the cruel features of the god had warned . |
| 22 | Sure , I was aware of the possibility that he too could have the perfect hand — even that he had cunningly rolled that five to mislead my own investment when I could have collared his . |
| 23 | Hitch understood and bolted for the door , picking the receiver up with infinite care so that he too could hear the voice on the other end of the line . |
| 24 | In addition one of the subjects did not show any fluctuations in risk ratings , in debriefing he explained that he certainly could imagine many risky situations , but he had not encountered any during the drive . |
| 25 | By using a federal regulation rather than the independent counsel statute ( which required a panel of judges to choose the appointee ) , Barr also ensured that he alone could choose the investigator . |
| 26 | Remembering that it was Wordsworth whom the Utilitarian John Stuart Mill turned to when he found that his philosophy produced nothing but visions of a grey and empty world , and that Matthew Arnold , after Wordsworth 's death , believed that he alone could heal human nature in the ‘ iron time ’ , the little poem that follows , written in 1833 , seems a convenient summing-up of Wordsworth 's mature attitudes . |