Example sentences of "that [pron] could [vb infin] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tied down the oars , too , so that nothing could move them . |
| 2 | She thought of Alexei , his life , its wealth , its comforts , his family , so substantially lodged in him that nothing could remove them . |
| 3 | If I were to ask a school-teacher to choose for me a sample which she considered to be a fair cross-section of her pupils so that I could interview them for a survey , there would almost certainly be a personal bias in the sample given to me . |
| 4 | We called for some fish and chips to take back for all of us , but I was n't sure that I could eat them after seeing that documentary where they all had ulcers . |
| 5 | But I believed that I could avoid them , with some help from the Vadinamian processes themselves . |
| 6 | We gave my home address over the air so that volunteers could send me a stamped , self-addressed envelope so that I could forward them a diet sheet . |
| 7 | I even took some photographs of myself crying so that I could show them to Marcus later and he could see how upset I had been . |
| 8 | Since John 's abduction I had kept a diary , hoping somehow that I could capture the time John was missing , to keep things from fading so that I could share them with him when he came back . |
| 9 | This he did and later in the evening he said that I could keep them . |
| 10 | The main light was behind him , but I could still see the shadows on his face ; they were more marked than ever , and I had the foolish illusion that I could remove them by stroking them with the tips of my fingers . |
| 11 | It 's so that nobody could see them . |
| 12 | Her girlfriends , particularly her former flatmates , would have rallied round but she did not feel that she could inflict them with such a burden of responsibility . |
| 13 | With an effort , she drove from her mind the thought of the return journey , filling it instead with the experience of the moment , absorbing the sights , the impressions and sensations , storing them in her brain , wishing she had a notebook with her so that she could record them in all their vividness and immediacy . |
| 14 | His eyes , now that she could see them clearly , abraded her flesh with a cold more searing than the icy wind blowing up from the valley this morning . |
| 15 | And so that you could send them the information about it all , and then James is just talking into the camera , saying , oh I 'm really glad that this is happening , the band 's gon na be really happy , finally we 're on our way , bla bla , and then it ends . |
| 16 | So that they just needed more or less scrubbing out and put on Put into drainers , you know just a big piece of wood with holes cut in so that you could fit them in and would n't fall off , and dry them over the heat . |
| 17 | I was actually going to give to you Sue , so that you could test them but I understand you 've already got some new ones ? |
| 18 | Glamorgan is way up on Devil 's Peak , and the sight of misty blue clouds hovering over its rocky peaks , so low that you feel that you could touch them , is so awe-inspiring that one feels all it needs is God 's voice thundering from the sky to make you fall flat on your face and worship . |
| 19 | They were very attractive and they did have the advantage that you could take them down and plunge the whole thing in water and wash it and er |
| 20 | Let's assume they waited around so that you could overhear them talking . ’ |
| 21 | But someone discovered in China that you could put them together and it went off with a bang . |
| 22 | She stopped to look at the two houses , Brier and Rose , like identical twins wearing slightly different clothing so that one could tell them apart . |
| 23 | The kitchen was transformed with pine units cleverly designed to be fixed to the walls so that one could have them at the height best suited to whomever was to use them , and then the dishwasher was installed . |
| 24 | Hitherto , when they asked us to obey those laws , we have known that we could change them , but hereafter a combination of people with different languages , understandings and cultures can set , and are by combination setting , upon us standards , rules and laws which may be suitable for Greece , central or northern Europe , France or Spain but which are not right for us . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ The word from Manchester United fans was that we could do them a big favour , and we 've undoubtedly done them one , but I got the impression that our own fans would not have been too bothered if we 'd lost today . ’ |
| 26 | Well , if they really tried to do it again and they failed , there 's not much else that we could ask them to do is there ? |
| 27 | ‘ We are fast approaching the point when the risk of attempting a rescue — and there is the risk that we could force them to beach — will be less than simply leaving leaving them alone , ’ Dr Martin added . |
| 28 | For British golf fanatics , there has perhaps never been a more nerve-wracking day than when , with only four points to get in the final singles , there was never a moment when it appeared likely that we could get them . |
| 29 | six two O twos , and we 're not going to replace it with anything , and we have an opportunity if we go for it now that we could replace them with sixteen double O fours and the projections are |
| 30 | They are still the most glamorous club in Britain , but our confidence is so high now that we could take them apart . |