Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [noun prp] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not enough that God could have done what Aristotle had deemed impossible . |
| 2 | Remembering all the dinners he had eaten at the Dysons ' when he had been living on his own , Bob invited Morris back to his flat one evening so that Tessa could cook dinner for him in his turn . |
| 3 | He came over to the bed , holding up his hand to shade his eyes from the bedside light , and peering almost comically close , so that Tessa could smell the whisky on his breath . |
| 4 | It tried to jump off the table and had to be held firmly so that Sophie could freeze the surrounding area before lancing it . |
| 5 | Sedgley was sent on for Walsh in order to protect the two-goal lead , and Hendry was given a couple of minutes at the end so that Lineker could take a well-earned breather . |
| 6 | After the miscarriage Dr Rollerson , Maud 's father , had insisted on paying for them to make an extended tour of Europe , so that Maud could regain her health , and James 's dream of a permanent post at St Bartholomew 's Hospital was indefinitely postponed . |
| 7 | Renoir had some of his canvases taken down from the wall so that Modigliani could look at them more closely . |
| 8 | As the Servant of Yahweh , Jesus treads the path of suffering and obedience right the way to Calvary : so much so that Peter could describe his suffering and death in terms culled from the famous prophecy of the Suffering Servant in Isaiah : |
| 9 | She did not want to be specific so that Tait could press her further . |
| 10 | In spring 1988 Johnson asked for the case to be adjourned so that LGCM could move its office without appearing to have been thrown out . |
| 11 | He pushed the list over the desk , turning it so that Hayman could read it . |
| 12 | Those who understood this might leave a swatch of fabric lying around so that Laura could pick it up and believe she had discovered it herself , even if they had been trying to persuade her to use it for months . |
| 13 | He opened a white-painted door with a stained glass transom window above it , then stood back so that Belinda could enter first . |
| 14 | However , before she herself was dismissed so that Dorothy could rest , her sister extracted a promise from her that she would set about finding out the boy 's address and , moreover , that Cynthia would contact her own solicitor and have him draw up a new will making Dorothy 's son her sole beneficiary . |
| 15 | Over there they have lots of servants , and her mother asks me if I would like to work there for a year , looking after Charlotte , so that Nicola could come and stay with them . |
| 16 | The outcome would have been to open up 14 million hectares of rainforest , so that Cameroon could achieve the TFAP 's target of becoming ‘ the most important African exporter [ of timber ] from the start of the twenty-first century . ’ |
| 17 | For the last three years Steve and Rose have lived in London , having moved from Nottingham so that Steve could take a course in carpentry . |
| 18 | In the event , they went back to Scotland Yard so that McLeish could get to a phone and check with his secretary , and with Bruce Davidson , who was co-ordinating the evidence as it came in . |
| 19 | This week she spent looking after Paddock Sportsline and their other emergent horses so that Linda could earn money working as a stable girl in Ted Edgar 's stables . |
| 20 | Announcement of the England team , originally scheduled for 10.00am , had been delayed by two hours so that Gooch could give Daffy the bad news . |
| 21 | The announcement of the England 12 for Lord 's was delayed by two hours so that Gooch could give Daffy the bad news . |
| 22 | The funeral was held in the morning of 23 October , so that Ken could appear on stage in The Private Ear and the Public Eye for a matinee that day . |
| 23 | The weekly trip to Dr Greene was her one outing , and Belinda always drove , so that Faye could lie back comfortably . |
| 24 | A little embarrassed at trespassing on this very private moment between them , she found a pack of tissues in Dr Russell 's medical bag and handed them to him so that Faye could wipe the gel from her abdomen before adjusting her clothing again . |
| 25 | He turned the picture so that Faye could see it , as well as Belinda and Bill , who had just arrived , briefcase in hand and shirt collar rather tired-looking after his long day . |
| 26 | The anger was triggered by a clash between photographers and bodyguards outside a toy store that had been cleared of shoppers so that Jackson could go on a shopping spree . |
| 27 | The Russians even sacrificed a few of their less important informers in the West so that Blake could claim further success . |
| 28 | He looked at Killion as if urging him to argue so that Woolley could knock him down . |
| 29 | She leaned closer to Alice , so that Alice could smell a warm perfume , reminiscent of a flower , the name of which could not be called to mind . |
| 30 | Well , if so , not so that Alice could take it in . |