Example sentences of "that [pers pn] could [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no way that I could skive a session , even if I wanted to , wearing my yellow and tartan suit ! |
| 2 | in my view thrown off without any reasonable excuse , because I felt that I could bring a lot of expertise to the health authority . |
| 3 | So when he was in Birmingham he bought me this house , which was going cheap , so that I could start a money-lending business here for him . |
| 4 | Why do you think I brought you down to his place if it was n't so that I could stake a claim on your patience — make you listen to what I have to confess because there was no way you could run away from me — flag down a taxi , catch a bus and head for the airport ? ’ |
| 5 | I was examining the effect in the mirror before putting on the mask , vaguely wishing that I could levitate a little to improve the illusion . |
| 6 | You 're so plausible that I could make a case for you . |
| 7 | We were by now seated in the Happy Diner , and I was still rather amazed that I could face a bacon sandwich . |
| 8 | I thought about it for a while and then telephoned him to say that I could suggest a pretty easy solution , and indicated to him what it was . |
| 9 | If I never believed the dead could hear me , and if I knew that the dead could not speak , I was nonetheless certain that I could re-create a conversation with them . |
| 10 | ‘ I was also thinking , ’ he whispered softly into her ear , ‘ that I could find a secluded spot and make love with you right now , if such a thing as a secluded spot existed in this place . ’ |
| 11 | When I was put in charge of the start-up at Fawley at the ripe old age of twenty-nine most of my team were people who were twenty years older than I was and being on shift with a lot of operating people taught me the problems and the realisation that I could learn a hell of a lot from them — the realisation that the chap on the shop floor usually knows far more about what 's going on than management does . |
| 12 | I thought no more of it , and stared vacantly into space , wishing that the weather would improve so that I could have a better look at the scenery . |
| 13 | I used to gaze at it and wish that I could have a dog just like the one in the picture . |
| 14 | The print , called ‘ Suspense ’ , hung over my parents ' bed and from a very early age I wished that I could have a dog like that — have a look at the picture of my Nip on page 110 . |
| 15 | I loved the fact that I could have a four , five , six piece group that was capable of making this huge wall of sound in addition to what we did as just a jazz quartet . ’ |
| 16 | My first big chance to put money in the bank came in 1986 when Middlesex awarded me a benefit , which was meant to make sure that I could have a start in the world outside cricket once I retired . |
| 17 | In order that I could test a number of hypotheses , I gave all the British ( and a considerable number of other European and North American ) Moonies a 41-page questionnaire , and then I reproduced many of the questions in a 36-page questionnaire that was distributed to non-Moonies who were matched for age and social background with the Unification membership . |
| 18 | I had been counting on his saying no to at least one of those , so that I could issue a hollow guffaw and depart , shaking my head ruefully ; but he did not , and I had no choice but to slink away or sign in . |
| 19 | I did n't particularly enjoy that , but the fact that I could play a reasonable game of golf led to an offer to do a sales job for a golf manufacturer just south of Los Angeles in a place called Tustin . ’ |
| 20 | I was hoping that P & I 's would be having a sale and that I could get a new concordance but she would n't even let me look . |
| 21 | I wished Tod would go and dig out that black chest of his , so that I could get a proper look at this Irene . |
| 22 | I dropped my handkerchief so that I could get a closer look . |
| 23 | Additionally , I stalked the craft carefully , so that I could shoot a position which left the outboard almost hidden behind the boat . |
| 24 | On one occasion I persuaded Vaughan Grayson Mann to show me around her house so that I could write a review of the many oil paintings which had brought her national fame as an artist . |
| 25 | The local bye-laws have diminished the flexibility of matches to such an extent that I often feel that I could write a script for them , observing the necessary theatrical unities and climaxing the set piece with a compulsory exciting denouement — a bit like and episode of Neighbours . |
| 26 | The reason I knew it was n't you was that I could hear a man 's voice . |
| 27 | On Jan. 7 she declared her intention to contest the presidency , and expressed the hope that she could forge a united opposition coalition . |
| 28 | Helen , never taking her eyes off Alexandra , craned sideways so that she could wind a finger round and round in a hole in her black stocking . |
| 29 | All she wanted was not to know again , so that she could stay a little child and never have to grow up and face the world without her mother to wake her in the mornings and teach her things and tell her stories and pass on all her wisdom about the world and men and how babies came and why the best any woman could hope for in this life was to be able to make one man happy . |
| 30 | It reminded her too that she should really get her into bed so that she could recover a little from the shocks she had received . |