Example sentences of "[pers pn] could 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 | With this she knocked away the snow from the lettering — but then found she could n't make out the words in the dark . |
| 6 | He tried to speak but she could n't make out the words . |
| 7 | At first , her eyes still full of tears , she could n't make out the figure . |
| 8 | But not so deafening that she could n't make out the anguished cries of : ‘ Wheee … |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | What about in rounders when you could n't pick up the ball . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I think they both actually probably work it 's just they could n't figure out the programming on them . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He heard two men arguing , but with water lapping in his ears he could n't make out the words . |
| 17 | On another low table by the wall there was an inexpensive stereo unit and some uneven stacks of records ; he could n't make out the details on the posters on the wall above the unit , but they might have been Escher prints . |
| 18 | ‘ He could n't go out the front door to play without being mugged . ’ |
| 19 | He tried to hit me , kept pummelling me with his podgy fists , but he could n't summon up the necessary enthusiasm . |
| 20 | If he could n't keep up the whacked — out , languid image , you feel he 'd be ripping himself apart with guilt and recriminations . |