Example sentences of "that i could [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Everyone needs to earn a living , and when I went to New York , I was glad that I could earn mine by my playing . |
| 5 | That I could express nothing if I did n't have the technique to do so . |
| 6 | Although my paralysis was pretty well complete , I did find that I could move my eyes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But I believed that I could avoid them , with some help from the Vadinamian processes themselves . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She was the first athlete that I could identify myself with ; she was always in the news . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | So I had to try to prove to them that I could manage him . |
| 18 | Would that I could undo what has been done . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It knew that I could sense it , just as it can sense me . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I was so astonished that I 've been waiting until people started to come to church so that I could show somebody and you 're the first and most suitable . |
| 23 | I do n't have anything else that I could show you at the moment I 'm afraid . |
| 24 | ‘ So , although that album kind of jumped the tracks for the band , it allowed me to feel that I could do whatever sprung to mind , whatever made sense for me . |
| 25 | Dragging the pad towards him he found a clean page and wrote : Dear Harsnet , I know you never answer my letters or return my calls , and I know that you handed over your notes to me on the understanding that I could do what I liked with them and not bother you , but I have to say that while there is much in them that I admire , as I will always admire much in you , no matter what , there is also much in them that seems to me to be puerile and , to put it mildly , bigoted . |
| 26 | Not that I could do anything but I would n't |
| 27 | I don ‘ t think that I could do it with anyone whose bones stuck out . |
| 28 | ‘ I had so many people telling me that I could do it — and I did ! |
| 29 | ‘ I had so many people telling me that I could do it — and I did ! |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't really look like Manson at all , ’ he admits , ‘ but I just felt that I could do it best ! |