Example sentences of "[that] [pron] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I reassured myself that nothing could stop me keeping in touch with the women on a voluntary basis , provided they wished to remain friends . |
| 2 | Impulsively , suddenly feeling that nothing could worsen the ruins of hir existence , Zambia opened the door and went in . |
| 3 | At the time , it seemed that nothing could break Ceauşescu 's hold over a servile and cowardly Party élite . |
| 4 | Normally he hated making speeches , and liked to prepare one week in advance so that nothing could go wrong . |
| 5 | With Tom Russell at the wheel she instinctively knew that nothing could go wrong . |
| 6 | And then , just when the Direktor was congratulating himself that nothing could go wrong , Gesner refused to take it any more . |
| 7 | " You should just see her , you ca n't imagine , you would have to see her to know why she chose it , " and all the time , as she spoke , some more assured , sophisticated account underran her words , silently , in her own mind , an account by some other girl , some girl who could wear such garments , and laugh at them , and explain them , and not suffer — some girl so far above such things that nothing could pull her down . |
| 8 | acquired a settled gloom that nothing could shake … |
| 9 | The power of the sword was so great that nothing could stand against him . |
| 10 | They tied down the oars , too , so that nothing could move them . |
| 11 | ‘ Everything is relative , but this had an intrinsic scale of drama that nothing could match . |
| 12 | My husband was right that nothing could exist on this planet . |
| 13 | By this time I was convinced that nothing could work and that I would have to spend the rest of my life obsessed with food , hating my body , eating every day to the point of pain , and desperately frightened if I could n't find any laxatives or make myself sick . |
| 14 | She felt that nothing could destroy it now . |
| 15 | Their shared interests and their long , friendly relationship had given them a complete understanding of each other 's character , and this finally developed , after their wedding , into a love that nothing could destroy . |
| 16 | His Beyond The Fringe was so innovative that nothing could follow it . |
| 17 | Mrs Shephard , 52 , a former inspector of schools and senior education officer , has always joked that nothing could have prepared her more for being thrown into the deep end than leaving Cromer , where her father was a cattle dealer , for St Hilda 's College , Oxford , where she read modern languages . |
| 18 | I could hardly blame him here — at least his feelings ; but even if , with an earlier and exact diagnosis he could have been spared a great deal of pain over a considerable period of time , I realize that nothing could have saved him . |
| 19 | There is no point in a defendant blaming his defective brakes if he was going so fast that nothing could have stopped him , or in blaming a puncture if he was driving on a tyre that was worn down to the canvas . |
| 20 | And Lucy 's silky warm skin all along her , arms wrapped round each other , so close that nothing could come between . |
| 21 | Only now , in love herself and with an inner knowledge that nothing could come of that love , could she fully appreciate what Travis was going through . |
| 22 | She thought of Alexei , his life , its wealth , its comforts , his family , so substantially lodged in him that nothing could remove them . |
| 23 | It is such that nothing could get in the way of its operation save changes logically inconsistent with it or with its effect or with a causal sequence of which it and its effect are parts . |
| 24 | She could see that nothing could harm her , that there was no danger , that danger in so far as it might exist was desirable , and she started to walk , slowly , up the street , looking at those who looked at her , exchanging glance for glance , shivering in the warm April air from a tremulous , hopeful , artificial apprehension . |
| 25 | Unnecessary jealousies had formed a chasm that nothing could bridge . |
| 26 | Just a short while ago she had thought that nothing could increase the feeling of dread that Andrew had left behind him in the drawing-room . |
| 27 | It was found that everyone could fit into the cellars , if the need arose , but £200 had to be spent on fans to improve the ventilation . |
| 28 | Sixty volunteers gave up their Saturday to act as guides so that everyone could tour the factory and be given explanations of the many processes involved . |
| 29 | The only thing they wanted to hear was that the prophet had said that everyone could go to Zap Zone and stay there for the rest of their natural lives . |
| 30 | Hundreds more will follow , prompting Mr Hildesheimer to suggest that the best commemoration would be not to perform Mozart at all until next year , so that everyone could realise what they had been missing . |