Example sentences of "[pron] could [adv] [verb] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't contemplate hauling that lot back . |
| 2 | Well the insurance would have to go as well as I could n't afford to keep that going . |
| 3 | I only accepted this [ methadone ] maintenance course to make sure he went on one , too , because if I had n't , he would have carried on using gear and I could n't have handled that . |
| 4 | I could n't have done that myself . |
| 5 | And it must be , I 've been up here twenty-three years , it must be getting on for thirty years old that teapot and er I could n't have afforded that money for that stainless steel teapot , as those days , but I had it with my divi . |
| 6 | But I could n't help noticing that was Al-Gadira too . ’ |
| 7 | I could not bear to touch that part of the body . |
| 8 | He insisted : ‘ I could not have made that statement . |
| 9 | ‘ I could not have allowed that . ’ |
| 10 | Well if I could just read read that , a well planned strategy for hou for land , for hous , sorry a well planned strategy for land for housing which ensures that housing is available in the areas where jobs are being being created can make a valuable contri contribution to national prosperity and economic growth , so I say I do n't think we would have that erm valuable contribution if the new settlement were located away from Greater York . |
| 11 | ‘ I could never have done that . |
| 12 | But as we made our way down through the trees , I realized that even if I 'd been better at baling I could never have carried that load : my forehead hurt , my neck felt stiff and strained , and the pine-needles on the path , compressed and polished by thousands of feet , were as slippery as glass . |
| 13 | The man sitting before me could not have forgotten that ; he just chose to ignore it . |
| 14 | It would have appeared to be charity and she could not have borne that . |
| 15 | Carrie felt she could n't bear to hear that light , cheerful voice sing out , ‘ Good-bye , Druid 's Bottom . ’ |
| 16 | Until she could prove without the shadow of a doubt that he was n't in league with Harry Martin then she could n't risk doing that , no matter how she might long to . |
| 17 | She could n't remember packing that . |
| 18 | He said : " she could still have altered that last part of what she foresaw . |
| 19 | Any amendment to the law that provides an aggravated penalty for someone who could not have foreseen that for which he is sentenced must be wrong . |
| 20 | You could see her thinking about it , but you could n't have heard that on the phone . |
| 21 | ‘ You could n't have done that . ’ |
| 22 | There was no way we could put TI money into the company , we could n't justify doing that to the shareholders because it looked to us as though BA was going to go under . |
| 23 | Although PRO wo n't confirm that it paid some $600,000 for the suite ( UX No 406 ) , the decision to plump for 88open 's testing technology was thought to be purely financial : ‘ we could n't afford to spend that kind of money developing our own alternative , so we bought in . ’ |
| 24 | We could n't afford to have that guy in . |
| 25 | there were pressures coming on the company which would mean that we could not continue to do that |
| 26 | One could not fail to understand that . |
| 27 | The defendant had argued that this information , ie the knowledge that the combination of the two ingredients produced an effective drier could not be protected by an injunction since the knowledge of that combination was knowledge which the second defendant must inevitably have taken away from the plaintiffs when he left their employment and that he could not proceed to expunge that knowledge from his mind . |
| 28 | He could never resist doing that with an attractive woman . |
| 29 | Of course a chivalrous fellow such as yourself could n't contemplate shooting that … parody of a living ancestor . |