Example sentences of "that [pers pn] could [verb] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I do n't have anything else that I could show you at the moment I 'm afraid . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't get you to come down here , Bella , so that I could escort you to bloody parties . |
| 4 | I wish that I could warm you with my kisses . |
| 5 | " I would work much harder if you came now and then so that I could tell you of my progress . " |
| 6 | So that I could kill you and suck the warm blood from your neck . |
| 7 | You did n't know that I could see you , did you ? |
| 8 | I was aware that I could trust you in a crisis . |
| 9 | She rejected it , and said sorrowfully , ‘ Oh , Havvie , I wish that I could believe you . |
| 10 | I think perhaps that I actually needed to be able to think the worst of you , however personally unpalatable that worst was to me , as some sort of a defence , so that I could despise you even if it meant despising myself as well . |
| 11 | I must admit I acted with the thought that I could interest you , that some attention would not be unwelcome — I hope I am not so insensitive as to force my company on anyone without some indication on their part — and there was interest , was n't there ? |
| 12 | Yes , and Isabel must know , must surely remember it , Isabel who had had such a well-developed , careful , private system for the storing , ordering , labelling , arrangement and organisation of things , whose books were in a certain line , so that she could tell you at once , and without ever having to get up , what sat next to what and where Lewis and Short or Cassell 's French-English would be found , were she to consent to your borrowing them because you had lost your own . |
| 13 | That she could abandon you — her four-year-old child — and never see you again ? |
| 14 | It meant that she could see you every day , work closely with you , even travel abroad with you . ’ |
| 15 | about school er further education on , on the magazine and I felt that perhaps , bearing in mind what he 'd said earlier about I have n't had any contact with you for thirteen years , that might have been something that you could 've you know reinforced a bit well we 've now got financial advisers , the other thing or one of the other things we 're doing is , is this contact magazine which we 're sending out to policy holders and it , you know , it helps to bridge the gap as it were . |
| 16 | ‘ What I thought , ’ says Freddie , ‘ was that we could fix you up with some kind of nominal job in the organization … ’ |
| 17 | The military blocked everyone in on campus and the police announced that they could shoot you without asking questions . |
| 18 | It is tempting to get a large capacity sack if you know you 'll have a lot to carry , but bear in mind that it could tempt you to carry too much ! |
| 19 | She was so horribly sensible that it could drive you , as Maggie knew it was now driving Phoebe , into complete tantrums and screaming , because Rachel would not share that part of the argument . |
| 20 | the vitamins , and erm it was a criminologist that it could help you mentally . |
| 21 | Even though he knew there was somebody else , Russell gave up his claim to anything so that he could see you , have you to stay with him , keep his daughter , and Imogen graciously agreed . ’ |