Example sentences of "[pron] could [not/n't] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't stand a smelly cat tearin' me 'ome ter pieces , ’ she told him . |
| 2 | And I could n't tell a triple Axel from a double Salko in a million years , let alone perform one ! |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I could n't give a damn how it looks to you ! ’ she retorted angrily . |
| 4 | I wanted one for er saying granddad one from the kids and I could n't get a decent one |
| 5 | I was split between boxing and football when I was 16 and , at one stage , I wanted to turn professional boxer and thought that , as I was on Norwich 's books and I could n't get a pro boxer 's licence till I was 17 , anyway , I 'd play football for twelve months and then steam into boxing [ he was a double ABA junior finalist ] . |
| 6 | I could n't buy a Christmas pudding , and I could n't buy a hot cross bun . |
| 7 | I could n't imagine a little car with a luxury big-car feel until I drove the Metro . |
| 8 | I could n't raise a dicky bird . ’ |
| 9 | He knows how I feel , me being an only child … he 's a wonderful husband , I could n't have a better husband . |
| 10 | I could n't have a better head groom . |
| 11 | " I could n't have a worse offer if I lived to be a hundred . |
| 12 | I moved up to there , and I want to bring everybody up to my new level , so I sort of drag everybody up , but I always thought it was just the , the inertia effect , you know , that I could n't have a mental and physical and moral energy to last everybody out wh , while they would change effectively . |
| 13 | ‘ I could n't have a quick look through it , then ? ’ she said hopefully . |
| 14 | But , after seeing Thoroughly Modern Millie , I honestly felt that I could n't take a whole movie in which Carol was in practically every scene . |
| 15 | You see I could n't spend a hundred hours on a painting and only ask that amount of money . |
| 16 | As I stood and gazed at the now empty slit trenches , I could n't help a sinking feeling in my stomach as I pictured in my mind those who had occupied the trenches in this orchard , those who had been killed or seriously wounded . |
| 17 | I took it regularly and pored over it every week for two months , but search and phone as I might , I could n't find a decent barn owl . |
| 18 | I may not always be able to offer a Danby or a Holmes ( Holmes is available as I write ) , but I should be considerably embarrassed if I could n't find a good view of the Gorge for a departing new graduate or a returning old one . |
| 19 | But I could n't find a bloody buyer . ’ ’ |
| 20 | I 'm sorry it 's been such a long journey , but I could n't find a quicker route . |
| 21 | And I said , or he said , I spent half an hour on the phone , trying to study , he said , she was from Ireland , he said , I could n't understand a bloody word she was saying . |
| 22 | ’ I could n't see a fellow mortal suffer , ’ he said with a grin . |
| 23 | ‘ I could n't see a damn thing , ’ he said . |
| 24 | And one of the things that is happening and mortified when I first came to this company was I could n't see a straight line through . |
| 25 | I instinctively had a quick look but I could n't see a damned thing . |
| 26 | ( And yet I remember one morning — when confronted by a preliminary plate of very sour , very cold slices of orange I could not stop a few tears trickling miserably down my cheeks — a gruff voice coming from the other end of the table . |
| 27 | When the hon. Member for Gedling mentioned the Secretary of State being a great supporter of the pillars of local government , I could not avoid a little chuckle . |
| 28 | I could not bear a dull father-in-law . |
| 29 | After two hours , I reached firmer ground but became concerned that I could not see a four hundred foot escarpment which , according to the map , should have been less than a mile ahead . |
| 30 | Wading through the stream of overwhelmingly affectionate obituaries , I could not find a single phrase to support the view that Mr P ever had the slightest interest in the games that people play . |