Example sentences of "that i could [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I wish that I could go into the matter in more detail . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Keith Thomas pressed a button and a huge door clanked upwards so that I could peer into the heart of the furnace . |
| 7 | We are working to achieve an agreement at Maastricht in December , but it must be an agreement that I could make in the confident expectation that I could commend it to the House . |
| 8 | For what is being suggested is that I knew today and not yesterday , despite the fact that there was no difference between the two days that I could tell at the time . |
| 9 | This also meant that I could scrub against the painting support and even use a wet brush loaded with water to lift out partially dried acrylic colour . |
| 10 | I picked him up gently , just to move him back so that I could look into the box … |
| 11 | There 's so much more that I could say about the development of Switchboard . |
| 12 | ‘ That season ’ , he reckons , ‘ I discovered I had something to offer ; that I could play with the big boys . |
| 13 | Sometimes I feel that I could get to the point where I 'd let her get on the bus [ transport to day care ] in the morning and then ring them up later and say ‘ Do n't bring her back because I wo n't let her in ’ … |
| 14 | As for the little animals , the gerbils , white mice and hamsters , they had to die their muddy little ploppy deaths so that I could get to the Skull of Old Saul . |
| 15 | Just as I was trying to find a hole in the hedge , so that I could get into the next field , I saw another giant coming towards me . |
| 16 | I began to see that I could ask for the things I needed . |
| 17 | For it was only by studying the precise rake of extra-long pans , the trajectory of tracking shots and the jejune emotional appeal of the jump-cut , that I could add to the repertoire of my own internal shoots . |