Example sentences of "that i could [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just wish that I could give more . |
| 2 | And in fact , I get an awful lot of support from friends erm , not family because my family are n't , were n't aware of it , erm but I mean , really it came from fre , really close friends that I could sit down and talk to and that could understand me and accept me , just like what the girl said as well . |
| 3 | Thus death has been ever close to me — so close that it seemed to me at times that I could reach out and touch it . |
| 4 | No so there was n't anything that I could record then and the woman 's coming tonight , to pick them up |
| 5 | The social workers told me I would like the home and that I could stay on at my old school and still have the same friends . |
| 6 | It was at this moment that I decided I must learn to dance , so that I could stay on at the pensione instead of roaming about . |
| 7 | I wished he would go away so that I could go upstairs and look at all my clothes . |
| 8 | In the end my parents agreed that I could go up for one year instead of being at the Royal College of Music . |
| 9 | It was n't that she felt left out — ‘ in fairness , they had said to me that I could go out with them anytime , but it 's a really grotty place , and I also did n't want them to feel I was a hanger-on ’ — it was just that she had nowhere else to go . |
| 10 | So I knew that I could go out again and get another caution , that 's why I did it , really . |
| 11 | Until then I had always thought that I could go home , but now I was n't sure . |
| 12 | The white father promised long ago that I could go back to my home , but the white men are big liars . |
| 13 | I wish with all my heart that I could go back and change that time , but I ca n't , I just ca n't . ’ |
| 14 | And him being a lawyer and all , we cooked up a grand scheme between us so that I could go back to Ireland with my pride intact . ’ |
| 15 | And he had to do that every year in order to satisfy his stance his hat that he was wearing , that he was actually being the boss , and knocking the workers down , look I 'm holding down , what twenty-two point on six , er and he believed that my need was that I could go back to my manager , and say , look I got him up to two point one , . |
| 16 | So that basically is it how would we see the course 's structure I do n't think we 've got time to do that today I wanted really to just to throw some ideas with you good folks and get the benefit of your thoughts and experience so that I could go back to Napier and say this is what my committee says |
| 17 | Who did I think I was imagining glibly that I could bring up a child all by myself ? |
| 18 | I , I , do you know I wish , I just wish that I could explain how I feel , but I ca n't . |
| 19 | Adam gave it to me the other day so that I could lock up . |
| 20 | After tearing both my ACL and MCL ( medial collateral ligament ) in a skiing accident last season , I decided to take the latter course and found that I could ski relatively safely with the aid of a brace . |
| 21 | I know that if I wanted to come back here this is the time that I could do so . |
| 22 | He thinks that I could do better than just a clerical job . |
| 23 | I always feel that I could do better ’ |
| 24 | I mean it stuck out like a sore thumb , I mean er by King George 's playing fields erm cos of the , they had n't the , th the , the s other story for that was as I said was we they sent er some of us to a class in Walsall for er aircraft recognition and er the days I went to this class , cos I went as er , er both for the factory and for the Home Guard , so that I could cover both the factory and when I were on duty , Home Guard and we was at a building on the corner of Corporation Street and west , and we was taking classes in there . |
| 25 | The fields shone a new green in the sun , and the air which for days had been hazy had been cleaned by the rain so that I could make out the shapes of sheep grazing near the old Coal Road above Cowgill as I walked down the lane . |
| 26 | At one time my major ambition was to have my father buy me an excavator so that I could make really big dams . |
| 27 | I dressed in black to reduce the chance of being seen and could n't believe my luck when I found that the house opposite his was unoccupied , with big bushes in the front garden that I could hide behind . |
| 28 | I debated whether to be sick or not myself , and decided that I could hold out for another half hour . |
| 29 | I wished that I could talk well , and could continue this conversation until animosity was dissipated and we could all stand on some common ground , but I knew enough to admit that this would n't happen , and that the longer the talk went on the further apart we should all grow . |
| 30 | All I wish is that I could find out whether it 's possible . ’ |