Example sentences of "[pers pn] that [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then within the team 's , in the Policy Team there were three Policy Development Officer 's , in the Neighbourhood Development Team there were two Development Officer 's and in the Community Development Team there are one , two , there are well there are normally six officer 's that you could I that you could identify , but there are other people that relate to them , but then it gets a bit complicated so were keep it at that . |
| 2 | That was about 2 months ago and I have received only one reply , to tell me that they could n't help me . |
| 3 | It seems to me that we could learn to rely on a system that could both embrace a wider ability range and discriminate within it more accurately ( both downwards and upwards ) if we adopted the structure of graded tests . |
| 4 | It was clear to me that nothing could be done unless Harold Wilson intervened . |
| 5 | She was so worried and scared of me that I could n't reward her when she did something right and , obviously , telling her off was out of the question . |
| 6 | It was n't that she felt left out — ‘ in fairness , they had said to me that I could go out with them anytime , but it 's a really grotty place , and I also did n't want them to feel I was a hanger-on ’ — it was just that she had nowhere else to go . |
| 7 | It was because I was subconsciously sure of them that it never occurred to me that I could be rejected . |
| 8 | ‘ I had so many people telling me that I could do it — and I did ! |
| 9 | ‘ I had so many people telling me that I could do it — and I did ! |
| 10 | Such studies resound with heartfelt quotations : ‘ I like to hear the sound of voices in the house ’ ; ‘ The programme reminds me that I could be worse off than I am ’ ; ‘ It sometimes helps me to understand my own life ’ ( McQuail , 1972 ) . |
| 11 | My lover reminded me that I could feel and inspire desire , which proved highly reassuring and , ironically , put the spice back into my marriage . |
| 12 | She once told me that she could never commit suicide because of her curiosity about what was going to happen next . |
| 13 | The Queen became so fond of me that she could not eat without me . |
| 14 | She told me that she could n't be happy until she 'd given birth and , in the course of time , I began to understand what she meant . |
| 15 | I work in Chipping Norton at the Presbytery and erm it just amazed me that she could tell someone not to smoke . |
| 16 | And it 's never quite fitted for me that he could be so stiff and laconic in Cabinet and yet try and be much more expansive on these set-piece occasions . |
| 17 | We were due at Chauk , an old field town , next day and Captain Tizzard advised me to take Rachel to the hospital there , but warned me that he could not delay his sailing for more than a few hours . |
| 18 | I asked him for something to ease the pain , but he reminded me that he could n't because I had a head wound . |
| 19 | ‘ Stapleton told me that he could not allow any other man to give me the money for my divorce , ’ Mrs Lyons said . |
| 20 | Eliot did not doubt the resilience or resolve of the British people ; but he remarked to me that he could not see a man like Neville Chamberlain coping with a major conflict . |
| 21 | Although he published much of Herbert Read , he told me that he could not cope with Read 's numerous books on Art . |
| 22 | He told me that he could understand the objections to the scheme by the residents , due to the fact that the width of the road was four feet less than the width of the road in Loraine Crescent . |
| 23 | He rang me last night , very kindly , principally I think to assure me that there could be no doubt . |
| 24 | Adenauer agreed with me that there could be no question of submerging the identity of our two nations in a stateless institution . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ She did every single thing to help me that anyone could . |
| 26 | ‘ He taught me that you could win without having the fastest car , by tactics and organisation . |
| 27 | It never occurred to me that you could be this spiteful . ’ |
| 28 | It seemed to me that you could not edge in a word ! ’ retorted Theda . |
| 29 | ‘ Only after you 'd told me that you could n't get involved . |
| 30 | Realizing the extent of the betrayal , it was clear to both of them that they could not hang around so close to the target area hoping for survivors . |