Example sentences of "[prep] it [conj] [pers pn] could n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teacher used to come in and take him and he got fed up of it 'cause he could n't get on with his other work . |
| 2 | I mean if they really sort of tried to make a story out of it and they could n't , they contacted the council offices and everyone was on holiday or nobody 'd answer the phone or what normally happens at council offices , they 'd say ‘ Oh , well , sod this , ’ and they 'd go away and they 'd do the , you know , write it up in a really nasty way so |
| 3 | And er she 'd tried to get rid of it and she could n't , so she found out her husband was coming home , he was actually in the boat coming back and she did n't know what to do . |
| 4 | He must be caught in it as he could n't possibly have had time to get back to where he was staying yet . |
| 5 | Now he stood behind me , so that I could feel the warmth of his body , but I was facing the box hedge , so close to it that I could n't turn . |
| 6 | I had to have a cast on it and I could n't play guitar at all in any fashion . |
| 7 | Oh er telly 's got a buzz on it and I could n't get it off , I think I made it worse . |
| 8 | But what he said was that erm the house wanted a lot of money spending on it and he could n't afford to do it . |
| 9 | The Marshal could recall no hard and fast rule about it but he could n't think that he had ever seen the pipers during Lent . |
| 10 | He wanted me to talk to you about it but I could n't . |
| 11 | You were condemned of people then you could n't care a damn about it cos you could n't do anything about it because your methods of running a country was a waste of time . |