Example sentences of "[that] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Lucy 's silky warm skin all along her , arms wrapped round each other , so close that nothing could come between . |
| 2 | It seemed to Marx that nothing could be more different than kinship relations and relations in the labour market . |
| 3 | She felt that nothing could destroy it now . |
| 4 | Impulsively , suddenly feeling that nothing could worsen the ruins of hir existence , Zambia opened the door and went in . |
| 5 | By this time I was convinced that nothing could work and that I would have to spend the rest of my life obsessed with food , hating my body , eating every day to the point of pain , and desperately frightened if I could n't find any laxatives or make myself sick . |
| 6 | Mrs Shephard , 52 , a former inspector of schools and senior education officer , has always joked that nothing could have prepared her more for being thrown into the deep end than leaving Cromer , where her father was a cattle dealer , for St Hilda 's College , Oxford , where she read modern languages . |
| 7 | Once she had , after she had listened with a gentle face to Jack 's admission , his ultimatum , that Alison was different , Alison was ‘ for keeps ’ , believed that nothing could be worse , that she had now experienced the worst . |
| 8 | Let me say here that nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 9 | On 7th October , soon after it was launched , Clarendon suggested temporary accommodation for the Office , to which Hall enigmatically replied that nothing could be decided until the designs were sent in . |
| 10 | The therapist judged that Margaret had made a very serious attempt to kill herself , that she was severely depressed and a continuing suicide risk , Although Margaret felt that nothing could be done to help her she agreed to be admitted to a psychiatric unit . |
| 11 | The vet said that nothing could be done to save her and that she had to be put down . |
| 12 | acquired a settled gloom that nothing could shake … |
| 13 | I would want someone that was on my wavelength , roughly my age , preferably a supporter , and I would n't sign anything until I had at least a serious gentleman 's agreement that nothing could be issued without the artist 's agreement . |
| 14 | While they acknowledged they did not feel themselves to be happy at work — their lot was ‘ to work ’ — they felt that nothing could be changed because they did not have the knowledge . |
| 15 | Disguising his real feelings he wrote cheerfully , telling them that it was better here than The Hague , as if to say that nothing could be worse than the hell of being unloved . |
| 16 | Watched by her baffled cat , Mildred squeezed through the gap and hopped away down the corridor , convinced that nothing could be worse than just sitting helplessly in her room . |
| 17 | The family , poor , simple folk , took him to hospital in the city , but doctors there said that nothing could be done . |
| 18 | They laid Victor on the floor of their shack and prayed for him , but Victor , realising that nothing could be done just gave up and refused to eat . |
| 19 | At the time , it seemed that nothing could break Ceauşescu 's hold over a servile and cowardly Party élite . |
| 20 | Designers quickly learnt that nothing could be satisfactory on first viewing . |
| 21 | I could hardly blame him here — at least his feelings ; but even if , with an earlier and exact diagnosis he could have been spared a great deal of pain over a considerable period of time , I realize that nothing could have saved him . |
| 22 | The power of the sword was so great that nothing could stand against him . |
| 23 | I reassured myself that nothing could stop me keeping in touch with the women on a voluntary basis , provided they wished to remain friends . |
| 24 | Coetzee checked to see that the pockets were empty so that nothing could be lost at the scene of the crime . |
| 25 | She could see that nothing could harm her , that there was no danger , that danger in so far as it might exist was desirable , and she started to walk , slowly , up the street , looking at those who looked at her , exchanging glance for glance , shivering in the warm April air from a tremulous , hopeful , artificial apprehension . |
| 26 | " You should just see her , you ca n't imagine , you would have to see her to know why she chose it , " and all the time , as she spoke , some more assured , sophisticated account underran her words , silently , in her own mind , an account by some other girl , some girl who could wear such garments , and laugh at them , and explain them , and not suffer — some girl so far above such things that nothing could pull her down . |
| 27 | Mary and Reggie those householders , as Alice contemptuously thought of them — sitting upright in their marriage bed , examining Alice , knew that nothing could ever really threaten them . |
| 28 | It is such that nothing could get in the way of its operation save changes logically inconsistent with it or with its effect or with a causal sequence of which it and its effect are parts . |
| 29 | Spain refused to recognize that nothing could be done in America without Britain , the greatest naval power ; but Castlereagh considered Spain ‘ proud and vindictive ’ , while British diplomacy showed little consideration for the susceptibilities of a declining imperialism , recommending an imitation of George III 's ‘ generosity ’ to America and the British commercial system in India . |
| 30 | ‘ Everything is relative , but this had an intrinsic scale of drama that nothing could match . |