Example sentences of "that he could [vb infin] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't fair that he could make her senses rocket in such a devastating way . |
| 2 | Er things got that he could make his mother , the other way round . |
| 3 | He was using her to advance himself somehow , for the sake of his family , and he intended to bind her to him before the party , so that he could demand her total loyalty . |
| 4 | Then there 's Bernard , who does n't know how well he 's supposed to be doing because you failed to give him standards of performance that he could measure his efforts by . |
| 5 | He wanted Yuan to ask what had happened , so that he could relieve his feelings . |
| 6 | With the help of his neighbours and by studying every relevant historical record that he could lay his hands on , Gough was able to trace the personal history of every family in his parish — often through several generations — and to show , incidentally , that intermarriage between the long-established families strengthened the bonds that made people think of themselves as a special community somehow different from all the others . |
| 7 | Simon was so close that he could smell his aftershave and the leather of his coat . |
| 8 | Surere looked at him searchingly before , satisfied that he could place his trust here , and also in need of an audience , he began : |
| 9 | If man does not bring to the universal conscience the paramount importance of self-control , monitored with reference to some all-powerful influence such as the Created God of this book , there is a grave danger that he could send his earth back to its pre-life state . |
| 10 | She had always resented Luke , and feared the way he made her feel — because she must have sensed from the beginning the power he could and did have over her ; because he had deprived her of himself when he had had her dismissed from that very first job back in South Africa ; because something had led him to misjudge and despise her , and he was unable to see the truth ; because she had always known that he could break her heart … |
| 11 | He picked up the papers he had discarded and laid them out so that he could check his own reports while Coy spoke to him . |
| 12 | Marc demanded savagely , dragging her chin up so that he could analyse her reaction . |
| 13 | On Monday morning he drove the car to work so that he could show his colleagues the slightly dented bumper . |
| 14 | He defied his mother so that he could link his parents ' telephone line to his terminal after his own phone was cut off , James Richardson , prosecuting , said at Southwark Crown Court . |
| 15 | Often at this time of day , when he felt the day 's journey should be ending or reaching a destination , but knowing that it was not , knowing that what he was looking for probably happened after everybody else had gone home , he wished that he could end his days walking at the edge of a sea or a lake so big that you could n't see its other shore . |
| 16 | He had read her letters to him so many times that he could recognize her large , childish writing at a glance . |
| 17 | Ecgfrith 's brother and successor , Aldfrith ( see Appendix , Fig. 6.2 ) , appears to have accepted that he could restore his kingdom only within narrower bounds ( HE IV , 26 ) . |
| 18 | I denied homosexual inclinations but he still made me bend down so that he could inspect my behind with a wooden spatula . |
| 19 | However , I do strongly suspect that he could change my perspective of reality so as to make it extremely difficult not to attack the person . |
| 20 | On the other hand he did , once on the jetty , bend his knees carefully so that he could deposit my suitcase next to another item of my luggage before loping off somewhere else with the sack still on his head . |
| 21 | She was holding on for dear life , leaning into him , lifting on tiptoe so that he could gather her close , hold her tightly in his arms , while his tongue slipped into her mouth , while his hand swept up her ribs and lightly cupped her breast … |
| 22 | as if reading his mind Maggie tugged him across in front of her so that he could comfort his wife . |
| 23 | He intended to build up a small collection of workmen 's clothes , a Brabant smock , a fisherman 's outfit of yellow oilskin and a sou'wester , a grey linen suit of the sort worn by miners , straw hat , wooden clogs , so that he could dress his models in them . |
| 24 | An additional benefit of expanding Eccleshall 's book would be that he could extend his interpretative essays , which contain important and subtle reflections on the nature of Conservatism . |
| 25 | Einstein found that he could extend his equation in only one way , by adding a term so that where A is a universal constant called the cosmological constant . |
| 26 | Such a weight of worry and terror and contempt had been lifted off his shoulders that he sometimes thought , when the end-music started up beneath the wagon and the audience began to toss like a field of corn , that he could spread his arms , if he wanted , and soar off his ledge , above their heads and round the church tower . |
| 27 | He looked at his hands , white with cold , the fingertips rasped to bleeding , and felt that he could hold his destiny securely in them . |
| 28 | About four years after his accident , Guy learned to stand on his hemiplegic leg without his toes flexing automatically , so that he could hold his balance while he lifted his other leg off the floor . |
| 29 | The shop steward then stood up and asked whether the management would be so kind as to tell him which men would be involved so that he could inform their wives now . ’ |
| 30 | I smiled to myself as I let in the clutch and moved off I would stop at the shop and tell the little man that he could collect his pans without the slightest fear of being torn limb from limb , but my overriding emotion was one of relief that I had not cut the sparkle out of the big dog 's life . |