Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] i could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interested , I asked him to whack my bottom with the same instrument and urged him to do it properly so that I could feel what it was like — he did so and I was only just able to restrain my tears it hurt so much . |
| 2 | He stretched out his arms and then turned slowly so that I could view the recycled Archie from all angles . |
| 3 | There was another great big box but instead of being up high it was down below and I could easily |
| 4 | So much so that I could easily believe I was dealing with a guitar that cost a lot more than this . |
| 5 | This system allows me to communicate much better than I could before . |
| 6 | He has summed up the issue much better than I could . |
| 7 | Much better than I could have been in the role . |
| 8 | I hated it , and Dr Kelleher got some of them taken down so that I could at least see the daylight . |
| 9 | I spent a good while asking for something written down so that I could see what I was and was n't supposed to do , but that was a forlorn hope . |
| 10 | The female , Vicky , came to me and bent down so that I could look again into her grey eyes . |
| 11 | So we had this agreement I would al arrive in a removal van just as assembly finished to start the lessons in the morning and then my removal man would come back and pick me up again at twelve o'clock so that I could then do the two-man jobs . |
| 12 | I set up another three Slammers , pouring the lime juice and tequila together so that I could cut mine to about half the strength I was giving them . |
| 13 | No-one else in our aircraft appeared to be the least bit concerned , but my relief as we finally drew near the coast of England again and then began our descent to the safety of solid earth was so great that I made a little promise to myself that I would never again set foot in an aeroplane , so long as I could be permitted to survive this one trip . |
| 14 | Nobody destroys me , and nobody was going to destroy Johnnie so long as I could sit by his bed — some of his family tried to stop me — and will my life force into him . ’ |
| 15 | The same is true of the altogether exceptional recording , which held my concentration so effortlessly that I could hardly believe that nearly a whole hour had passed when I emerged elated at the other end . |
| 16 | The next few gybes were the first I had ever done with speed all the way through the turn , in fact , it happened so quickly that I could n't change the rig fast enough — so then I had to work on the rig change . |
| 17 | There 's so much more that I could say about the development of Switchboard . |
| 18 | I sank down further until I could just see over the seat in front . |
| 19 | He tried to be nice about it , but it was fairly obvious he did n't want me any more ; and truthfully , I did n't want him any more either , except in so far that I could n't bear that it should all have been for nothing — worse than nothing . |
| 20 | These occasions , so far as I could tell , brought neither of us any pleasure . |
| 21 | The Canadian has an operating crew of five ( excluding the dozen or so service staff ) and no one is entirely clear what they all do : fill out forms mostly , so far as I could see . |
| 22 | The pancake , so far as I could tell , was a mixture of potato , cabbage , onion and seasonings . |
| 23 | ‘ So far as I could judge , it was the smoothest-running diesel of its type on the market at the time , and the quickest , ’ he says . |
| 24 | M. Dupont , so far as I could observe , was not contributing to the discussions , and it was hard to tell from his sullen demeanour if he was attending carefully to what was being said or else deeply engrossed in other thoughts . |
| 25 | Mr Lewis , so far as I could ascertain , had already retired . |
| 26 | So far as I could judge , events , were now moving in my favour . |
| 27 | Instead of waiting to be salvaged , some of the inhabitants had got together in an effort to cheer things up , and , so far as I could gather from the film , they were busying themselves pasting pieces of brightly coloured plastic over broken windows . |
| 28 | I rather obviously avoided , so far as I could , offering even the most tentative diagnosis of the defect in the tripartite analysis which Gettier exposed . |
| 29 | I was in a large ward full of ailing women , many of them , so far as I could judge , suffering from senile decay . |
| 30 | I went after the money with money borrowed from legit sources so far as I could : you know , against property , against insurance policies . |