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Example sentences of "that [pron] could [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	She explained that I could stay at Heenan House until I could find somewhere suitable to live .
2	I regret if this remark has misled Mr Blair or you to think that I could preach at Kildalton as a Candidate .
3	The battery was for a camping weekend — so that I could see at night .
4	Erm I 'd re I 'd really like the the experience and the knowledge that I could learn at college , but I 'd like to take a short cut too .
5	If you read her diaries you discover that she travelled incessantly on trains and overnight trains so that she could speak at meetings the next morning .
6	Léonie turned her head so that she could look at Baptiste .
7	It might be thought that one could look at lung cancer death rates among groups of people ( e.g. Mormons , Seventh Day Adventists ) who never smoke .
8	We explained later it was to power a lightbulb so that we could read at night where there was no electricity .
9	Some older people feel that they could manage at home if there were someone else living in their home , perhaps helping with light care tasks , or just ‘ keeping a watchful eye ’ .
10	He agreed that they could disembark at Peterborough and wait for the 2.30pm train .
11	It all ended well , undoubtedly helped by the fact that one positive feature could be highlighted , namely the support and sympathy shown by the Emperor during the Indian Mutiny , when he had offered to allow passage through France to British reinforcements so that they could embark at Toulon , thus cutting down the time required for the voyage to India .
12	The question of whether the existence of a mistake has to be apparent from a speaking decision was raised in Dean v Prince [ 1953 ] Ch 590 , where , at first instance , the judge held that he could look at documents other than the auditors ' certificate and the balance sheet and that cross-examination of the auditors would be allowed .