Example sentences of "[prep] it [pron] could [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example once he went to Rome on business and when he got back he told me about a building which was like the sky at night , so big that even when you stood in front of it you could n't believe you were actually seeing it . |
| 2 | But half of it you could n't understand could you ? |
| 3 | I thought I knew , I knew with it I could n't wear my bottom teeth all week because of the ulcers right beside near the bottom of my gum . |
| 4 | He always needed that : without it he could not feel easy in himself . |
| 5 | But without it she could not pay for her coffee and salad . |
| 6 | More specifically , the accident resulting from the first incident had only taken place because of a concatenation of events leading to it which could not have been foreseen . |
| 7 | She had meant to confide that she , too , was a seduced woman ; yet when it came to it she could n't find the correct words . |
| 8 | When it came to it he could n't kill the happiness he saw in her . |
| 9 | Looking back on it I could not figure out what went wrong as I had done exactly as instructed but nobody had ever really said much about fallen trees or currents and especially not in such a small part of the river . |
| 10 | He saw lettering on it he could not make out , although he had the presence of mind to record the scene on a video . |
| 11 | If you were paying for it I could n't stop you now you 're sixteen |
| 12 | Why he asked her about it I could n't tell you . |