Example sentences of "that you could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guards were either abruptly mistrustful or effusively friendly when they discovered that you could speak their language . |
| 2 | Then came the International Section : an Indian family on the back of a lorry with a stove , the mother cooking real curry that you could smell in the air ; an Irish group , parents with bagpipes and children dressed as leprechauns ; a steel band from Trinidad . |
| 3 | And how you can that you could draw imagine there 's a branch |
| 4 | And there was also a strange sound , so quiet that you could miss it but which , once you had noticed it , also seemed to fill up the world . |
| 5 | ‘ The rate of work with an umbilical hose system is much higher than that you could achieve with one man and a tanker driving from store to field . ’ |
| 6 | Now you not only had the wine but also found that the bees had multiplied , so that you could start off three or four jars . |
| 7 | Right next part of section one , did you collect the information by the deadline which means were you able to complete it in your form time with your form tutor and bring it to the lesson so that you could start on the s on the graph . |
| 8 | ‘ You said yesterday that you wanted a divorce , so that you could start a new life . ’ |
| 9 | The practice of eating dead enemies probably arose from the idea that you could absorb the better qualities of the person who had died through eating their flesh . |
| 10 | He went adrift by imagining that you could float in water head up and then duck your head under , thus displacing an extra quantity of water , which could be measured . |
| 11 | At the time he reached his last book , Human Knowledge , he had abandoned the claim that you could show that the world could be logically constructed out of sense experiences , and adopted a much more Kantian outlook , in which , while he erm said that all our inferences about the world must begin from sense experiences , all that the philosopher can do , is to make explicit the premises that are required in order to infer from the transitory data of my own experiences to the enduring existence of material things and the much more sophisticated kinds of existence which their minute constituents have . |
| 12 | Then she added with a light laugh , ‘ I do not think , Creggan , that you could stop me . ’ |
| 13 | Do you think that you could stop me ? ’ |
| 14 | An example of a chart that you could construct on a card , or in your diary is shown opposite . |
| 15 | Salaries in commerce and industry are good , but to get a better picture of the sort of pay that you could expect , look through the Law Society 's Gazette and the national press where prospective employers advertise available posts . |
| 16 | When she sings something like ‘ Nothing Left At All ’ you can almost feel the sky closing in tight above you , getting so close that you could reach up with a broomstick and touch it . |
| 17 | The good care there 's one other thing that we talked briefly about in the signs and symptoms and what happened that you could check for you look at a baby , what else do you do ? |
| 18 | Failing that you could check out your bank balance and treat yourself to a stay at Champneys health resort which has recently installed a Skier 's Edge and where they gear workouts to your ski-specific needs . |
| 19 | Even when Victor Hugo came up here , in I 843 , he was still able to declare , on no known authority but his own that you could pile six cathedrals of Notre-Dame in Paris ( the subject of one of his novels ) one on top of the other ‘ before the balustrade on top of its towers would reach to the surface of the water ’ . |
| 20 | O=only the the only thing was that you had n't got enough room to display everything that you could stock , is n't it . |
| 21 | He knew that there was a big market in Japan and that you could tour there fairly economically because it was such a small cluster of islands , and he just decided he would . |
| 22 | When I think of me days of pain and sufferin' here , and how I 've kept cheerful and 'elpful so as not to be a burden , as well as givin' you the benefit of me company so that you could 'ave someone to talk to , well , it 's a shock to me to find you lazin' about with a gypsy woman on your lap . |
| 23 | There was no more objective reason why firearms should not have been used in burglaries and bank hold-ups thirty or sixty years ago than today ; but it ‘ was n't done ’ — until it was discovered that it was done , that you could do it . |
| 24 | I am not for one moment suggesting that you could do such a thing yourself because I think you would do it with more style and use a magnum of champagne . |
| 25 | Then gradually apply pressure so that the message permeates through that you could do the other party harm or cause them problems . |
| 26 | List at least five things that you could do to be a bargain for your partner . |
| 27 | House music was taking over the galaxy , and this was an indication that you could do whatever the hell you liked with the genre . |
| 28 | When time and energy are spread too thinly , even those things that you could do with ease when you were ‘ on good form ’ become more troublesome . |
| 29 | And that , if you 've done erm bum bum bum digging into history that you could do coordinates and coordinate patterns . |
| 30 | I mean , just a few odds and ends that you could do from your nice |