Example sentences of "that [pron] could [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I I I I think that 's one of the options that I could sort of er I could still be the li , cleaner over here . |
2 | For many years , I have wished more than words can say that I could unburden myself , unbutton my secret . |
3 | But there , from any notes , she felt that she could piece together what had taken place . |
4 | None the less her experiences with those other professionals led her to believe that she could nut affect the result of their deliberations . |
5 | She squatted down to his level , and he stuck his chin up in the air so that she could rebutton his coat for him . |
6 | Big osier ones , flat , that you could crook over your arm or set on the ground . |
7 | Nobody expects me to say that you could gig with either of these amps , do they ? |
8 | I had the dubious pleasure , after Second Reading , of trying to pilot the House of Lords reform Bill through the House many years ago , when we found that the divisions were on both sides of the House and any idea that one could timetable or guillotine soon went out of the window . |
9 | tried to borrow a bike for us so that we could bike round , but when she |
10 | Right well it came up when War on Want wrote to us and asked us to affiliate and we had a brief chat about it and felt that there are many groups that we could affiliate to . |
11 | We need a room with a ceramic tiled floor , a central drain , so that we could hose it down . ’ |
12 | After some weeks without Red Cross parcels , people began to arrive early at meals so that they could size up and take the largest of the scrupulously rationed helpings of potatoes , or the thickest of the apparently identical slices of bread . |
13 | Scottish Widows was punished for allowing greedy insurance brokers to sell unnecessary insurance to customers so that they could pocket huge commissions . |
14 | Before 1918 electors could have more than one vote , provided that they could quality in different towns or counties ; it was now proposed by Unionists that the qualifying area in boroughs should become the constituency rather than the borough itself . |
15 | Even the freeholders in the fields — who were willing to have enclosure so that they could farm more efficiently or sell land for building — were helpless in the face of the burgesses who might have no land but who hoped to get a piece in time , or who already held these rights to graze their cattle and sheep . |
16 | One horseman revealed that he could jade a horse standing , say , on the sandy apron outside an Inn simply by walking round him and unobtrusively dropping one of the obnoxious powders in the sand , especially in front of him : ‘ You did n't have to touch the horse , but that would stop him . ’ |
17 | Obviously Brian Harley was going through one of those phases , and felt that he could one-putt every green . |
18 | He hoped to buy a young pony that he could break-in and teach his daughter to ride . |