Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [not/n't] [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Andrew has always been devoted to Kate , Mr. Mottram , but I could n't say the same about her . |
| 2 | ( 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 . |
| 3 | She regretted she could not say the same about his chest and general condition , and explained why in detail . |
| 4 | When she tried to explain that she would now have to live on five shillings a week , she could not restrain a few tears . |
| 5 | ‘ I never saw one thing she wanted that did not sell , ’ but nonetheless insisted that this undisciplined approach was unacceptable for a customer trying to furnish a house , who might have kept a sample for six weeks only to find she could not reorder the same fabric . |
| 6 | SINGER Paula Abdul , left , lost out when she could n't hit the same key as Frank Sinatra . |
| 7 | The wind was only slightly stronger and the reservoir a little choppier , but most of the others were out already and managing fine , so I saw no reason why we could n't do the same . |
| 8 | We could n't see no more because of the hangars |
| 9 | Mark you , I said as she was too big , but they said as it could just be the water , as they could n't hear no more than the one heart . |
| 10 | Unfortunately he could not do the same at Newcastle in the FA Cup and , although he got leave of absence from school for the match , we were unable to prevent the Geordies from avenging their 1907 defeat . |
| 11 | He found , however , as he loped along , ostensibly to school , that he could not feel the same bitterness that he had done when he first started to write . |
| 12 | But he said the incidents were not being linked at this stage and he could not say the same people were responsible for each theft . |