Example sentences of "[pron] could [not/n't] [vb infin] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also I could n't shake off the imprint of The Fat Controller 's locutions . |
| 2 | ‘ Despite several rests ranging from a few days up to a whole week , I could n't shake off the injury and it just got worse . |
| 3 | I could n't keep up the pretence any longer . |
| 4 | I , standing on my tiptoes I could n't see out the window to , to look out to the stage erm , and there was a huge step up , it was about that , which was great for people 's bad backs and if you got up on that , erm then you sat on top of a very high cocktail chair , in fact one of our people had to kneel on top of the high cocktail chair , to look , to see down , over the window , down to the stage and they did n't give us a sound feed which would sound familiar |
| 5 | She could not make out the patch of canary-coloured light on the opposite wall , could not make out why the sun was shining and why her brown-stained hand , on the sheet , would not move for cold . |
| 6 | The position had been reached where she could not make out the labels on the cans of food she was heating up . |
| 7 | She could not make out the words , but knew instinctively they 'd been uttered by the uncle of her child . |
| 8 | She could not shake off the effect of the dream despite Comfort 's kindness , and her muscles still trembled . |
| 9 | Her latest ally , Soviet Russia , was reeling under Hitler 's onslaught and it was widely expected she could not last out the year . |
| 10 | As his lips pressed against hers , warm and exciting , she could not hold back the longing inside her . |
| 11 | Millions and millions of bits of information were still in her head , correctly labelled and neatly stored , but she could not work out the geography of this house , she was seeing green tigers and she was afraid in a way she had not been since childhood . |
| 12 | The TV commentator was excitedly describing the drama , but although she strained to hear she could not pick out the name of the victim . |
| 13 | If she could not get out the train would carry her on to the next station , to London Bridge , it would carry her on under the river . |
| 14 | With this she knocked away the snow from the lettering — but then found she could n't make out the words in the dark . |
| 15 | He tried to speak but she could n't make out the words . |
| 16 | At first , her eyes still full of tears , she could n't make out the figure . |
| 17 | But not so deafening that she could n't make out the anguished cries of : ‘ Wheee … |
| 18 | She could n't make out the expression on his face as he spoke , and in a way she was glad that she could n't . |
| 19 | Lisa had been fully occupied explaining to a rather elderly lady why she could n't pick out the exact blooms that were to be delivered to her daughter-in-law in New Zealand . |
| 20 | I would imagine i , i , if they went to look at it for fire and , or anything like that you 'd be in the wrong cos you could n't get out the kitchen . |
| 21 | What about in rounders when you could n't pick up the ball . |
| 22 | But the most annoying aspect of the early period was the lack of real interest shown by our first council members — at times we could n't muster up the required six members for a quorum at the monthly meetings . |
| 23 | Sadly , it was inevitable that we could not keep up the pace against Twitchit Albion , especially with so many of our squad approaching the twilight of their careers . |
| 24 | Secondly , the Government have evaded parliamentary questions by placing the Benefits Agency and other agencies beyond our reach : we could not find out the answers without going through ever more tortuous procedures . |
| 25 | I think they both actually probably work it 's just they could n't figure out the programming on them . |
| 26 | But it was n't actually , it were something else , and people were finding that their goods were repossessed because they could n't keep up the payments . |
| 27 | Det Chief Insp Dave Sinclair said that although they could not rule out the possibility of someone else having fired the machine , the incident was now being treated as an accident . |
| 28 | And they could not rule out the bigger commercial craft , tugs , lighters , oil tankers , and general cargo coasters , pursuing their lawful occasions on the Thames . |
| 29 | [ Guevara then went on to mention ] some things he had in mind : — ( 1 ) That they could not give back the expropriated properties … but they could pay for them in trade . |
| 30 | Although he had helped to set up British Aerospace as a nationalised company , he was convinced it could not take on the huge rival plane-makers in the United States unless it was unfettered from government control . |