Example sentences of "[Wh pn] could not [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who could not leave work in time could catch the 19:46 and we would all travel back together . |
| 2 | The second was a farmer-substitute scheme to help those who could not obtain assistance during periods of illness . |
| 3 | Rafe Straker , like many of the original white settlers of the Bahamas , had been an American loyalist who could not stomach life under George Washington . |
| 4 | In contrast to the Hong Kong Basic Law , the Macao draft law imposed no restrictions on foreign passport holders taking key posts in Macao after 1999 except for the chief executive who could not gain right of abode in a foreign country during his term of office . |
| 5 | This continued to amaze Ludens who could not imagine existence without reading . |
| 6 | A reserve of justice remained with the King , and so those who could not get relief in the King 's ordinary courts might , with some hope of success , petition the King and his Council for redress , if not as a matter of right at least as a favour . |
| 7 | Quoting from The Times , he would agree that , as applied in Poland , Marxism had created a proletariat disposed to ‘ revolutionising practice ’ inspired by those who could not take advantage of the widespread corruption through which a black economy , supported by western currency , operates to mitigate the sheer harshness of a regime of scarcity . |
| 8 | Dr. Marten shoes were most frequently seen on younger kids who could n't get hold of suedehead shoes . |
| 9 | There was a woman called Wilkinson who could n't keep order in a birdcage . |