Example sentences of "[adv] that [pers pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood watching him , wishing fiercely that she could go too . |
| 2 | She knew suddenly that she could not live without him . |
| 3 | His arm still lay there , so gently that she could not find it a pressure . |
| 4 | Reading right-wing papers also made people more inclined to believe the Conservative Party had convincing policies and was likely to keep its promises , that Kinnock was neither decisive , nor trustworthy , nor a good leader of a team , and especially that he could not be relied upon to stand up for British interests against the USSR . |
| 5 | At one moment we were all saying more or less volubly that he could not possibly succeed ; the next we found ourselves travelling along behind him " . |
| 6 | ‘ Although it seemed natural to expect that some word match scores should be good enough that they could be considered correct , thereby eliminating attempts to find alternatives to them , in fact all attempts to implement such an intuition seemed to have led to at best indifferent results and usually to positive degradation . |
| 7 | Well after a while the bricks got hot enough that you could just adjust the valve to where the stove would get almost cherry red and it was a very nice fire . |
| 8 | At forty-seven years of age , he was young enough that he could be expected to complete the work , and yet he had probably built more buildings than any of his close rivals . |
| 9 | He knew well enough that he could not , but had had enough experience to know that aggressive tactics often paid . |
| 10 | Tata had complained often enough that he could n't leave his two assistants at the shop for more than an hour before something was certain to go wrong . |
| 11 | Mm , because you , you erm have er the , obviously that you could be sent some dubious tapes ? |
| 12 | Sons and spouses attended the meeting , having prepared beforehand that they would tell their mother personally that they could not offer her a home , but would keep in touch with . |
| 13 | And I have resolved in my heart to hear your complaints two days in the week , on the Monday and the Thursday ; but if causes should arise which require haste , come to me when ye will and I will give judgment , for I do not retire with women to sing and to drink , as your Lords have done , so that ye could obtain no justice , but will myself see to these things , and watch over ye as friend over his friend , and kinsman over his kinsman . |
| 14 | There is no law of nature which says that human societies are bound to survive so that we could say ‘ Cheer up , chaps ! ' ’ |
| 15 | Did you know that we imported cereal from Ethiopia during the famine just so that we could have our meat ? |
| 16 | Between us we had even hired a video so that we could record this minor miracle of medical history for posterity . |
| 17 | His colleague Vic Marks wrote that ‘ we willed opposition fast bowlers to bounce him so that we could witness the majesty of his hooking ’ , and there can be very few batsmen of whom that could be said . |
| 18 | We came here so that we could be in control of our own lives and not tangled up with anyone else . |
| 19 | And because I had only one chair , we used to sit on the edge of the hard , narrow bed and draw up the table so that we could write on it together . |
| 20 | As usual when we entered a church together , I dipped my finger in the holy water and gave you a drop from my fingertips , so that we could cross ourselves together , like a novio and novia . |
| 21 | if I won bigger money , I should go in for a new house , which would be built to our own idea , so that we could get a bigger scullery … . |
| 22 | ‘ D' you imagine that some day someone will invent a gramophone that will play a record with a whole opera on one side , so that we could put the prelude on with the soup and have the finale with our cheese without having to get up ? ’ |
| 23 | Simon Murison-Bowie wrote to you on 22 December last year asking you to let us know the operating system and machine you would run the tape on , and the tape density you would need , so that we could arrange for a copy to be prepared for you . |
| 24 | Then we 'd again pace 100 yards , counting the paces and the time it took , so that we could do dead reckoning on our march in . |
| 25 | We sought to find out what these were so that we could consider the points raised and respond to them . |
| 26 | Mounds of dirt , rock and sand — little hills engulfed by dunes — blocked our view so that we could see no more than half a mile in any direction . |
| 27 | A second classification was made using a supervised approach so that we could capitalize on our local knowledge of the study area . |
| 28 | When the first stones hurtled towards the boar , it lunged forward , its head rising clear above the water so that we could see the downward curve of its tusks , the bead-like eyes wild with terror . |
| 29 | Although when regressed one does not go back to the immediate past life , then the one before it , then the one before that and so on , by the time Martin had experienced regression six times it was possible to put the lives in chronological order so that we could try and see if there was any lesson to be learnt from them . |
| 30 | ‘ He was always moving the goalposts so that we could never anticipate what he wanted . ’ |