Example sentences of "[pron] could n't [verb] me [det] " in BNC.

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1 You could n't lend me some money , Sam ? ’
2 ‘ Of course , we were devastated , but we knew now what had been wrong all along — and at least they could n't blame me any more . ’
3 age of six months that they could n't handle me any more .
4 I was in there nearly three years , or two and a half years anyway and , of course , I when I passed to go to the Q M of course , I , I used to do the Headmaster 's and all that but they , they could n't teach me any more because you , you can only have the same lessons as them that have been taught you know .
5 When Dr Maxwell came along a little later , I asked him about it , and although he pooh-poohed it a bit and said it was all a lot of nonsense , I did get him to admit it could n't do me any actual harm to go to the classes and do exercises .
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