Example sentences of "[that] [pron] could [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I reassured myself that nothing could stop me keeping in touch with the women on a voluntary basis , provided they wished to remain friends . |
| 2 | " 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 . |
| 3 | They tied down the oars , too , so that nothing could move them . |
| 4 | She felt that nothing could destroy it now . |
| 5 | His Beyond The Fringe was so innovative that nothing could follow it . |
| 6 | She thought of Alexei , his life , its wealth , its comforts , his family , so substantially lodged in him that nothing could remove them . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They hung it to an almond tree in the square by its ankles so that everyone could see it , and when it began to rot they burned it in a bonfire , for they could not determine whether its bastard nature was that of an animal to be thrown in the river or a human being to be buried … |
| 9 | Somehow it always righted itself and reached the front , where new hands seized it and raised it high so that everyone could see it . |
| 10 | ‘ We 're honoured to have you ladies in our humble premises , ’ he said , so that everyone could hear him . |
| 11 | But anyway , we created that whole idea that no-one could photograph him , no-one could do do a story on him unless it was going to be a cover story , which was outrageous because he was virtually unknown in America . |
| 12 | If I were to ask a school-teacher to choose for me a sample which she considered to be a fair cross-section of her pupils so that I could interview them for a survey , there would almost certainly be a personal bias in the sample given to me . |
| 13 | Everyone needs to earn a living , and when I went to New York , I was glad that I could earn mine by my playing . |
| 14 | Then she flew on to a high window-sill and I had to ask the headmaster to bring me a ladder so that I could bring her down . |
| 15 | We called for some fish and chips to take back for all of us , but I was n't sure that I could eat them after seeing that documentary where they all had ulcers . |
| 16 | But I believed that I could avoid them , with some help from the Vadinamian processes themselves . |
| 17 | I have no idea what I shall be doing even this time next year ; I have n't any achievements or even firm plans that I could offer you . |
| 18 | ‘ Crilly , ’ I say as we lie together , ‘ when the nurse gave me the anaesthetic , she jabbed me so deep that I could feel it throbbing in my veins like an explosion , and it hurt like anything . |
| 19 | We gave my home address over the air so that volunteers could send me a stamped , self-addressed envelope so that I could forward them a diet sheet . |
| 20 | So I had to try to prove to them that I could manage him . |
| 21 | He told me that he would donate £5,000 to the fund if I would undertake to invite his little son , then at school in Oxford , to tea on odd occasions , so that I could acquaint him with some of the matters relating to Judaism . |
| 22 | It knew that I could sense it , just as it can sense me . ’ |
| 23 | I even took some photographs of myself crying so that I could show them to Marcus later and he could see how upset I had been . |
| 24 | I do n't have anything else that I could show you at the moment I 'm afraid . |
| 25 | I don ‘ t think that I could do it with anyone whose bones stuck out . |
| 26 | ‘ I had so many people telling me that I could do it — and I did ! |
| 27 | ‘ I had so many people telling me that I could do it — and I did ! |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't really look like Manson at all , ’ he admits , ‘ but I just felt that I could do it best ! |
| 29 | I knew at once that I could do it . |
| 30 | And how it fits into your life , I have the feeling that er if I could fix it so that I could do it sort of in the house , by the way , I could , I could do certain things and I could stick to them , and I would see that I 'd do them . |