Example sentences of "that he could [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Wow , ’ Wayne said , obviously wishing that he could stay in the front and eavesdrop . |
| 2 | He had then gone to Hollywood in the early fifties and stayed there long enough to show that he could cope with the system and be moderately successful , but not so long as to alienate his chauvinistic British following . |
| 3 | ‘ Eventually I was able to convince Michael that he could sing in the way he now does , ’ says Lloyd Webber . |
| 4 | He also showed his inexperience by asking Gerry Gomez , his captain , if he could be substituted so that he could go to the airport to meet his sister . |
| 5 | Another friend of mine , a man who spent most of his adult life looking after his elderly parents until they both died within a year of each other , came home from work one evening and suddenly realised that he could go to the cinema and have a meal out without worrying about anyone else . |
| 6 | My old man occasionally joined us on a Saturday morning , but only to get some cash off Granpa so that he could go to the Black Bull and spend it all with his mate Bert Shorrocks . |
| 7 | Indeed in May nineteen ninety Mr gave up his appointment as a teacher in order that he could care for the plaintiff full time . |
| 8 | Chaucer 's prototype , the Miller of Trumpington , was such a well-trained rogue that he could distinguish between the various degrees of filching ; and he could steal as occasion served him , either ‘ courteously ’ or right ‘ outrageously ’ . |
| 9 | He said this explorer had said he 'd had some special underpants made so that he could pee in the river safely . |
| 10 | More precisely still , it was because he was not in the dark about God that he could walk in the dark about Isaac . |
| 11 | He angled his chair so that he could sit by the fire and watch her . |
| 12 | It was not something that he could admit to the outside world , though . |
| 13 | The jury , sitting in court 4 at Bristol , were sent home early by Judge Overend , so that he could drive to the bridge to see for himself the spot at which the accident happened . |
| 14 | If Wordsworth had been a simple country boy , they could have patronized him ; the Johnsonian style of the Preface to Lyrical Ballads showed that he could write like the gentlemanly reviewers if he wanted to , and nothing is more infuriating than one of our own sort who ‘ lets the side down ’ . |
| 15 | Allen had never earned more than ten pounds a week , taking part-time jobs during the day so that he could write in the evenings . |
| 16 | And er I mean I tried to indicate you know to him that he could claim against the company and get his premiums back , but unfortunately , there was no letter and no i indication , and the person was no longer with the company . |
| 17 | He waited ; patient , alert , ready to take the only way now that he could escape to the Forest of Dean . |
| 18 | Nevertheless the Official Solicitor on that day tried to persuade the NIRC to convene immediately so that he could apply for the committal orders to be discharged . |
| 19 | A voder commentary accompanied the recording , but Rostov had switched off the auditory input to his chair so that he could converse with the Manchu technician who was running the session . |
| 20 | Yesterday , Ferguson said : ‘ I think it was a question of convincing Ryan that he could operate on the right . |
| 21 | Crane cut back into the forest to make a circuit so that he could get beyond the horses . |
| 22 | It perhaps reveals Gedge 's ever-growing confidence that he could see beyond the macho nonsense and enjoy himself . |
| 23 | Slowly , in case a sudden movement on his part might break his fragile control over his own legs , Hugh bent slightly so that he could see under the chest . |
| 24 | Masklin waded through the puddles on the concrete so that he could see down the far side of the aircraft . |
| 25 | As the cars lined up on the grid , Andretti on pole , Hunt alongside him , Pete Lyons wrote a wonderful paragraph which said it all : the mechanics drilling holes in Hunt 's visor so that he could see in the mist . |
| 26 | It was like driving the machines around an invisible Wall of Death Lambert found that he could look across the circle and see right inside the German pilot 's cockpit . |
| 27 | This made him an acceptable candidate as protector and , once he held that office , helped to ensure that he could call on the backing of the Yorkist establishment . |
| 28 | This made him an acceptable candidate as protector and , once he held that office , helped to ensure that he could call on the backing of the Yorkist establishment . |
| 29 | He began , with the banknotes , to shape them as darts that he could fly across the room . |