Example sentences of "that you could [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there was also a strange sound , so quiet that you could miss it but which , once you had noticed it , also seemed to fill up the world . |
| 2 | There was no more objective reason why firearms should not have been used in burglaries and bank hold-ups thirty or sixty years ago than today ; but it ‘ was n't done ’ — until it was discovered that it was done , that you could do it . |
| 3 | So that you could do it like that . |
| 4 | Ever since you raped and killed that cadet in military school … just to show yourself that you could do it . |
| 5 | so that when it er , come apart you would have some of it together and some of it would bond together so that you could do it yourself then . |
| 6 | ‘ So gummy that you could throw it against a wall and it would stick , ’ It was known as ska , blue beat or rocksteady , and collectively as reggae . |
| 7 | Do you think that you could send it on ? |
| 8 | That you could make it in the movies with no boobs to speak of was , until recently , an alien notion . |
| 9 | Started to make some biscuits and then read the recipe afterwards and she had to put it in the fridge for twenty four hours in the , the pastry in the fridge so they could n't make the biscuits , there I 'm sitting here expecting erm , a biscuit and nothing came , dear , it was n't one of those recipes that you could make it straight away was it ? |
| 10 | ‘ And you asked her to give it to you so that you could return it to Rick . |
| 11 | Well erm my Lord I do n't know whether you 'd like to take certainly the rest of the afternoon and sit again tomorrow at ten thirty to get a clean start , having read all the documentation or whether you feel that you could read it before then . |
| 12 | They the frame was er constructed on on er two trestles and , of course , er you put your trestles so that you could balance it , so that it was n't so heavy to lift . |
| 13 | Not so that you could find it as a clue . |
| 14 | Okay so we can implement it like that in hardware but the major benefit and this was done sort of like sixties sort of sixty nine seventy was to realize that you could put it into a little package like that which of course is a random access memory . |
| 15 | The refrigerator was easy , you just opened the door and put food in it until it looked like an igloo inside , and then a pair of hands which might or might not be your own came along and cleared out the ice so that you could use it again . |
| 16 | So we were really answerable to the Ipswich Borough Council , rather than to private enterprise which some people really wanted to sell us off as being a , you know , a weight round their necks because if we did n't make a lot of money after the war , the accounts would show that we were making a deficiency every year and erm , well there was no way that you could recoup it because our routes were n't really long enough to charge lots of fares erm , maybe tuppence was the town centre to the extreme termini |