Example sentences of "that i could [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I knocked on it but it was so dilapidated that I could see right through the door frame and into a large room where a man was sitting in a kitchen chair , dressed in trousers and vest . |
| 32 | I pulled a corner of the curtain away from the window so that I could see out . |
| 33 | Even before the film had wound on , he 'd looked down and away , so that I could see only his forehead and his grey hair ; and within two seconds , he 'd walked towards the grandstand and out of my line of vision . |
| 34 | Many books lay open , carelessly scattered about , so that I could see how Frankenstein had scribbled notes in their margins . |
| 35 | From here I found , as I had hoped , that I could see down to the shore at the point where Neil had told me he wanted to work . |
| 36 | In a moment of optimism my wife told me not to worry and pronounced that I could live perfectly well on one lung . |
| 37 | The next decision was to find an instrument that I could learn quickly . |
| 38 | But I was considered ‘ sharp ’ and they also discovered that I could run quite fast . |
| 39 | So , it 's perhaps an area that I could instigate there . |
| 40 | If I started again I would like to have … ( 1 ) a ghost writer , not for my speeches but for my letters and statements : he would be the kind of person who could take the Ministry 's policy and translate it into the kind of words I would use ; ( 2 ) perhaps an economist ; and ( 3 ) a general investigator whose job it would be to brief me so that I could participate intelligently at Cabinet Committees and in Cabinet on subjects outside my own Department . |
| 41 | Speaking more generally , I suppose that I could sum up the Prime Minister 's speech — without rancour — as timid , devoid of national purpose and lacking in inspiration . |
| 42 | The female , Vicky , came to me and bent down so that I could look again into her grey eyes . |
| 43 | All I felt was relief that I could look over my shoulder now . |
| 44 | On that first occasion my father took me through Craven Hill Gardens into Porchester Terrace , showed me the blank brick back of the facades and lifted me up on to the wall so that I could look down into the shaft . |
| 45 | I used to even give up my lunch hours so that I could come home and take the dog out ! |
| 46 | He gave it to me so that I could come in and out to you as I like . |
| 47 | I knew that I could wait forever , |
| 48 | He installed me in the base-camp , an old redbrick gardener 's cottage with roses climbing up the side , offered me the keys to the crew bus so that I could pick up something to eat in nearby Worksop , and even had the foresight to take a pint of milk from the warden 's fridge so that I 'd be able to make a cup of coffee in the morning . |
| 49 | I 've wished then that I could say honestly , ‘ But I did have a child of my own , a little boy by the only man I have truly loved . ’ |
| 50 | ‘ He was a big man , but I had studied martial arts and felt confident that I could get away if he made the wrong move . |
| 51 | I hated Gionesca because he complained all the time , and I knew that I could get away with hating him because I was stronger and fitter than him . |
| 52 | They had both been so kind , caring and helpful during the whole of Nigel 's illness — staying with him so that I could get out to shop and have a break , taking him to his hospital appointments because their car was bigger and therefore more comfortable for him , and in dozens of other , smaller but no less important ways . |
| 53 | I ran along the stony path to Sam 's large shed in my socks and hardly felt the discomfort , and found to my relief that I could get inside easily enough — no lock on the door . |
| 54 | I knew exactly where to stop it so that I could get off and go down the ladder , sneak a cup of tea or something . |
| 55 | We found then that the bigger the objective lens was the more light could be got and the bigger you could make it , so as I got bigger and got er the chance of making my own lenses and building up lenses of various kinds , I found that I could get quite a good magnification . |
| 56 | , a delightful person , was my guardian angel for the first ten days of the tour , and was also good enough to rearrange my return journey from Hyderabad , so that I could get back in London in time for an appointment on 29 November . |
| 57 | Soon I 'll have enough money for a really powerful crossbow , and that I 'm certainly looking forward to ; it 'll help make up for the fact that I 've never been able to persuade my father to buy a rifle or a shotgun that I could use sometimes . |
| 58 | Mm we have got some more weed upstairs , some more of that plastic weed that I could put in . |
| 59 | I developed so much skill that I could put together a 50 or 60 break and when I moved to York I played for the local Conservative club and reached the final of the York and District competition . |
| 60 | At gym lessons I needed to organise my changing routine so that I could take off my outdoor shoes , slip my feet immediately into my gym shoes and , even before I tied my gym-shoe laces , put my outdoor shoes into my satchel hoping that they would stay there throughout the lesson . |