Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [that] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bar was full , I could see that through the saloon window and I went round to the yard at the rear . |
| 2 | Any fool could see that with the ledgers and papers destroyed there was nothing to substantiate any misdealings with the accounts . |
| 3 | On his way he passed the main drive , and he could see that at the end of it the gates were open . |
| 4 | I could see that from the way his knuckles whitened around the telephone . |
| 5 | The touch of his fingers on hers was playing havoc with her ability to think straight , and she knew he could see that from the faint gleam in his eyes , the way his hand tightened around hers . |
| 6 | Sun flower limping , water less vase , suffering eyes , desperados in caged , so from , from that painting I had a tremendous feel of something undergoing tremendous suffering and seem very desperate about the situation , and I did n't just see that in , in the picture of Van Gogh , but I could see that in the sun flower , so as , as a writer its images like that , that I would look for and open up and turn into characters or a way of portraying a particular mood , erm , the next one , were doing very well |
| 7 | As they rounded the edge of the building , he could see that behind the house was a vast garden . |
| 8 | The damage from yesterday 's blast could top that in the 1,000lb van bomb at the Europa in December 1991 by around £1.5m . |
| 9 | You could leave that to the end of the quarter |
| 10 | It could mean that over the coming 18 months Edinburgh University will have to make up to 40 staff redundant , because of the lack of progress with the scheme . |
| 11 | But I do n't know anything about selling things , only before I could tell that to the woman who owns the stall she 'd rushed off to follow someone called Harry — who 's not getting away with it , ’ she tacked on comically . |
| 12 | They were Asian ones — I could tell that from the label , but he said that Asians had one more ( or was it one less ? ) toe than the Indian ones and different ears . |
| 13 | If you want to know how I could tell that from the seventh floor , you have to remember I 'm supposed to be a detective . |
| 14 | I could tell that from the way he was fishing around — he got that panting , thirsty . |
| 15 | He 'd probably never been to Brixton before — I could tell that from the way he was sinking down in the back of Armstrong the farther along Effra Road we got . |
| 16 | ‘ I could tell that from the warm way Joanie Sims and Hattie Jacques spoke about him . ’ |
| 17 | Pausing mid-way he looked down and could notice that between the cracks of the wood and the holes of the ferrous nails , lay the stream , flowing as a solid conjecture , broken rarely by the spinning vortex of wheeling , eddy and ripple . |
| 18 | No one could foresee that over the course of the next few years the steel industry would be successfully reorganized and taken into the private sector . |
| 19 | Or you could say that from the story told under the palm-tree or round the winter hearth there developed the novel . |
| 20 | But erm and that presumably one could say that in the same way as Stalin did but that erm Trotsky 's idea was much nearer to Marx . |
| 21 | The smaller Divisions could argue that at the heart of their success lies an individual education process and a separate designation — the Chartered Building Surveyor is a prime example . |