Example sentences of "[vb infin] that [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't know that they could , but I 'd always sworn to her that I would never involve her in any way and I 've never broken my word . |
| 2 | She did n't because the moment was not right ; she did not yet know that she could not plead from her position of privilege that she had suffered too — ‘ So you want to annex our wrongs as well , do you ? ’ he might well have answered to her in just bitterness . |
| 3 | How did she know that she could find sanctuary in the familiar and the ordinary ? |
| 4 | Benny spoke with an authority she did n't know that anyone could have , let alone herself . |
| 5 | cos Jenny did n't even know that you could bloody put on weight by drinking . |
| 6 | Ye of little faith should know that it could be earned but not in a normal working week . |
| 7 | For example , if we saw the sequence PQZT , we would know that it could not possibly be an English word . |
| 8 | Did everyone know that he could n't read ? |
| 9 | We do know that he could n't have used a beehive . |
| 10 | ‘ They did n't know that he could n't have drawn a proper furrow let alone a real good 'un if he had n't got his owd pipe a-drawin' in his mouth ! |
| 11 | People would know that I could do the job . |
| 12 | You did n't know that I could see you , did you ? |
| 13 | In all his writings from hiding he had increasingly found a brave and defiant secular voice : one that recognised a ‘ God-shaped hole ’ in life , but did not doubt that it could be filled by art , literature and imagination . |
| 14 | She who could call a lame youth to her and support him with her invisible grace while he laid down his crutches on the steps of her altar , why doubt that she could turn the leaves of a Gospel , and guide a faithful finger to the words her will required ? |
| 15 | In other countries , despite the rhetoric of the Alliance for Progress that stressed social justice , the officials , bureaucrats , agronomists and administrators frequently implemented and supported programmes that could demonstrate that they could bring about higher levels of production . |
| 16 | He occasionally drops a phrase to provoke a smile from the soft cheeks of ladies and gentlemen , and to make them think that they could say the thing better … |
| 17 | Force the other party to try hard to get your attention and let them know or think that they could lose out to someone else . |
| 18 | So that kind of thing made analysts think that they could go on more than just free associations , they could look at a person 's character , as it were . |
| 19 | Erm , I find myself agreeing with what Mr Courcier said , er , about Hambledon , I do n't think it realistic to expect existing settleme , villages within the area of search to form a nucleus for a new settlement , they 're simply too small and would be swamped by any development , and also the er I stand by the statements made yesterday about the environmental quality of the settlements , about there form , settings , and characters , and I really do n't think that they could form the nucleus of a new settlement . |
| 20 | However , I do not think that one could increase pensions in line with earnings each year if one did not address oneself , not to the rate at which contributions are made , but to the income on which contributions are assessed . |
| 21 | So do you think that we could put our differences aside for just one evening ? |
| 22 | With regard to the need for direct and close contact , I do not think that we could have had a clearer example of that than the visit of President Yeltsin and the very straight talking between my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and the president . |
| 23 | Do you think that you could send it on ? |
| 24 | Going back to the scene of the Crucifixion , do you think that you could add something to a scene which has been treated for almost 2000 years ? |
| 25 | Well do you think that you could make a ‘ bit of a window ’ for the Church ? ’ |
| 26 | And I know it 's difficult to get people motivated when they 've been hit down and hit down so often , er but and I do n't think that you could do er any great erm as as we said when we went into the flats , we did n't go in with any big , world shattering ideas of of causing a revolution or you know , of doing er putting on a big project or anything , it was actually to be with the people in their situation and gradually to help improve somehow , if we could . |
| 27 | Do you think that you could stop me ? ’ |
| 28 | And , you know he said I 'm sure Paddy Ashdown would think that you could of found something else to use the other |
| 29 | and we do n't , we do n't think that you could do the job . |
| 30 | You might think that you could hardly have anything much simpler than the idea of zero or unity , or even perhaps the notion of number , erm sorry , but what , zero or unity , what Peano was proposing to do was to define these basic arithmetical ideas in terms of ideas simpler still . |