Example sentences of "that [pron] could [verb] [pron] " 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 | Hundreds more will follow , prompting Mr Hildesheimer to suggest that the best commemoration would be not to perform Mozart at all until next year , so that everyone could realise what they had been missing . |
| 9 | At this stage , one member of staff understood to record everything said on a flipchart , so that everyone could check its accuracy . |
| 10 | Then , without warning , she grabbed hard and pulled it up into the air so that everyone could see what she was doing . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | Somehow it always righted itself and reached the front , where new hands seized it and raised it high so that everyone could see it . |
| 13 | ‘ We 're honoured to have you ladies in our humble premises , ’ he said , so that everyone could hear him . |
| 14 | Those days had passed , and she only had the Chapel for consolation ; even they , alas , got her name wrong — were the three sisters so alike that no-one could decide who was who ? — and when sickness payments to her started in November , 1857 , she was erroneously entered as ‘ Mary ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A buoyant Mr Clarke told reporters that no-one could doubt his commitment , and that of the leader John Smith , to the establishment of a Scottish parliament . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As the spend over the three years will be more than that — last year 's spend was £17 million and I expect this year 's to be £25 million , making a total of £42 million — I suppose that I could give my hon. Friend the assurance that he seeks , but even if our figures were so way out that I could be caught on that commitment , when I consider the matter next May — assuming that the burden still falls to me to do so — I would have to make the same calculation as I made this year . |
| 19 | In September 1938 , when I was sixteen , I went back to my native country for a holiday ; partly because 1 wanted to see my friends in štanjel , and partly so that I could visit my uncles , aunts and cousins on my mother 's side of the family in Mavhinje . |
| 20 | Everyone needs to earn a living , and when I went to New York , I was glad that I could earn mine by my playing . |
| 21 | That I could express nothing if I did n't have the technique to do so . |
| 22 | Although my paralysis was pretty well complete , I did find that I could move my eyes . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But I believed that I could avoid them , with some help from the Vadinamian processes themselves . |
| 26 | He hoped that I could undertake something in that line , especially in relation to Italy : for I had been giving him my impressions of the visit to Rome , which included encountering at close quarters , Mussolini , Count Ciano , and Edda his wife , and the by comparison rather puny Neville Chamberlain . |
| 27 | I was never really good at pretending that I could assume my client to be innocent because I or my instructing solicitor had been careful to ensure that he did n't actually confess . |
| 28 | She was the first athlete that I could identify myself with ; she was always in the news . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Interested , I asked him to whack my bottom with the same instrument and urged him to do it properly so that I could feel what it was like — he did so and I was only just able to restrain my tears it hurt so much . |