Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] a [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier in the year I received a letter from the M.C.R. President of another College asking how the M.C.R. managed to maintain good relations with the S. C. R. Sitting down to reply , I could not pinpoint a specific thing . |
| 2 | But to all who valued Hoover , of course , it could n't mean a damn thing . |
| 3 | We could n't understand a blind thing when she tried to explain to us . |
| 4 | Indeed ‘ the whole piece is something of a dream ’ ( Hugo Young , The Guardian , 21 June 1988 ) , in which ‘ you could n't take a single thing seriously ’ ( according to Pearce ) because ‘ any resemblance between it and the world of 1988 is due to administrative oversight ’ ( Patrick Stoddart , The Sunday Times , 26 June 1988 ) . |
| 5 | But at times this urgency verged on desperation as we were told by Tookey that the film ‘ utterly fails to convince ’ ; by Frank Johnson that ‘ its politics are so plainly antediluvian ’ ; by Pearce that ‘ you could n't take a single thing seriously ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ I could n't see a damn thing , ’ he said . |
| 7 | I instinctively had a quick look but I could n't see a damned thing . |