Example sentences of "that [indef pn] 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 | Or have you ever wishes there was some way that someone could contact you … |
| 18 | Story of four people this is a story of four people named everybody , somebody , anybody and nobody , there was an important job to be done and everybody was sure that somebody could do it , anybody could of done it , but nobody did , somebody got angry about that because it was everybody 's job , everybody thought anybody could do it , but nobody would . |
| 19 | To know that somebody could read your mind , or move an object without touching it , seems unbelievable . |
| 20 | Ada believed that nobody could grudge you the right to complain . |
| 21 | Snodgrass embarked on a story about a very famous jewel called the Koh-i-noor , which he thought had once adorned a great King 's State Crown and explained how it had been so rare and so heavy that it had had to be kept locked away behind bars and guards , so that nobody could steal it . |
| 22 | It 's so that nobody could see them . |
| 23 | You had to go to a modelling school where you learnt how to get in and out of cars with your legs just so , so that nobody could see your knickers . |
| 24 | His first ministry was brief , but when his government was defeated it was clear that nobody could take his place : for three months George II had to run the administration without any parliamentary ministers — an operation that was not as impossible as it would have been seventy years later , though not nearly as normal as it would have been seventy years earlier . |
| 25 | As well as this , Vincent may have been influenced by Zola 's theory that one could make oneself an artist by an act of will , providing one had the temperament — ‘ Art is nature seen through a temperament ’ — and although natural talent was helpful , it was by no means essential . |
| 26 | She stopped to look at the two houses , Brier and Rose , like identical twins wearing slightly different clothing so that one could tell them apart . |
| 27 | Sometimes , when accused of eccentricity or indeed perversity of vision , she would claim that all knowledge must always be omnipresent in all things , and that one could startle oneself into seeing the whole by tweaking unexpectedly at a surprised comer of the great mantle . |
| 28 | So the only place to put such a black hole , in which one might use the energy that it emitted , would be in orbit around the earth — and the only way that one could get it to orbit the earth would be to attract it there by towing a large mass in front of it , rather like a carrot in front of a donkey . |
| 29 | The kitchen was transformed with pine units cleverly designed to be fixed to the walls so that one could have them at the height best suited to whomever was to use them , and then the dishwasher was installed . |
| 30 | The murder was still so fresh in his head , he felt that anyone could smell it . |