Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] that [pron] could " in BNC.

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1 That 's something I do n't sa , not so matter that I could have told him !
2 It has been suggested that Biggs does not possess the heart but when so badly cut that he could not be allowed more than one more round he went back out and stopped David Bey .
3 Mountbatten 's personal view was that the new nationalist movements should be appeased rather than suppressed and that the old colonial powers should settle for the best deal that they could get , pledging independence in the near future and thus , he hoped , preserving the greater part of their economic advantages .
4 I , I , do you know I wish , I just wish that I could explain how I feel , but I ca n't .
5 I just wish that I could give more .
6 ‘ Well , ’ the lean lady said , ‘ I still feel that something could be arranged .
7 I always feel that I could do better ’
8 You look ready to dance with rage , and although we might collect a few pennies from them in return for our providing such a spectacle I hardly think that we could put it on as a permanent entertainment ! ’
9 About open learning and they 've got an H N C in Business Communications , now they also say that you could do this as a student at the college .
10 The selectors , though , clearly consider that they could still have need of the towering mass of Dooley 's physical presence .
11 However , they also imply that there could be objects that have always travelled at faster-than light speeds .
12 You could have — I know that now , and I also know that I could n't have coped with it then . ’
13 I honestly believe that it could not be more inspirational playing in front of a home international crowd . ’
14 Team leaders often say that they could have gone faster on their own .
15 The local bye-laws have diminished the flexibility of matches to such an extent that I often feel that I could write a script for them , observing the necessary theatrical unities and climaxing the set piece with a compulsory exciting denouement — a bit like and episode of Neighbours .
16 That you really believe that you could not possibly be a victim of this terrible conspiracy .
17 However , I now see that there could have been less concurrence between them on this matter than I had supposed , and so I was a disappointment to both of them .
18 The afternoon was spent following Divina Galica through the trees and down any difficult , fast run that she could find .
19 To interview only one club member and then say that he could be taken as representative of the whole club membership — perhaps several hundred in number — could not be substantiated .
20 I almost believe that I could be like this .
21 Does that ever cause any resentment if there 's , you know if the , a man 's a head of a section where there 's a lot of women who maybe feel that you could do the job as well ?
22 All readers however perceive that it could as easily mean death .
23 I seriously believe that she could be brought up to university standard in two or three years with the proper coaching . ’
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