Example sentences of "that [pron] could [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The power of the sword was so great that nothing could stand against him . |
| 2 | My husband was right that nothing could exist on this planet . |
| 3 | Only now , in love herself and with an inner knowledge that nothing could come of that love , could she fully appreciate what Travis was going through . |
| 4 | It is such that nothing could get in the way of its operation save changes logically inconsistent with it or with its effect or with a causal sequence of which it and its effect are parts . |
| 5 | It was found that everyone could fit into the cellars , if the need arose , but £200 had to be spent on fans to improve the ventilation . |
| 6 | The only thing they wanted to hear was that the prophet had said that everyone could go to Zap Zone and stay there for the rest of their natural lives . |
| 7 | I believed for many years that I could move towards the future and leave the past behind , that there was no need for me to return home . |
| 8 | She explained that I could stay at Heenan House until I could find somewhere suitable to live . |
| 9 | not really feeling the need for a conversation , wishing only that I could stay on this bench with him forever . |
| 10 | I wish that I could go into the matter in more detail . |
| 11 | ‘ Would that I could go with you . |
| 12 | ‘ So when he told me he had to go back home to Fyn to meet someone , but that I could go with him if I wanted , I gave him an ultimatum . ’ |
| 13 | I never really appreciated the full meaning of the word ‘ vision ’ , until the day that I had felt so powerless to change the cruel reality facing my children and people in my community in Glasgow , that I started to wish with all my heart that I could go to sleep and never wake up again . |
| 14 | I 'd be a complete idiot if I thought that I could go through life and not bounce into the occasional person who did n't have my welfare at heart , and I 'm no idiot . |
| 15 | I took it for granted that I could associate with people from all walks of life , from every background . |
| 16 | ‘ There was no reason that I could think of to tell you , and some reason not to . ’ |
| 17 | There could be no answer to that , none that I could think of at the time . |
| 18 | All aspects of intersection control that I could think of , and even some aspects of urban and road design and management are included in a chapter on links between intersections . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , ’ Athelstan added , ‘ is it possible that I could speak to one of the laundresses ? ’ |
| 20 | Determined to shoot one with a really fine head , I decided to spend a night near the mountain-top so that I could hunt for them in the early morning before they lay up for the day . |
| 21 | I regret if this remark has misled Mr Blair or you to think that I could preach at Kildalton as a Candidate . |
| 22 | For if there is the smallest hope of escape … if there is the merest chance that I could return to the world and to Grainne , I would tear this place down stone by stone . |
| 23 | I reached the desolate head of the valley ( few flowers here ) and decided to attempt a crossing to the other side of the beck so that I could return by the path descending from Black Sail Pass . |
| 24 | I know that I could suffer in that way but I hope I will be able to cope , ’ she added . |
| 25 | However , that is not an accusation that I could level at the Leader of the Opposition , as he has not found time to say anything at all about the environment — true or false . |
| 26 | I had no sustained involvement in any kind of political activity — mainly , I think , because there were n't any models of political organization that I could identify with . |
| 27 | Keith Thomas pressed a button and a huge door clanked upwards so that I could peer into the heart of the furnace . |
| 28 | And it just so happens that I mentioned to one of my doormen that particular night that I could do with one of those machines to keep a careful check on my blood pressure . |
| 29 | So now I needed a job that I could do for approximately four months — something well-paid , light , congenial , preferably among colleagues with a physical inability to drop their eyes below shoulder level . |
| 30 | This particular movement , however , brings out one interpretative idiosyncrasy that I could do without ; namely the inordinately drawn-out unison notes which form a dynamic contrast to the quieter material of the second subject . |