Example sentences of "[pers pn] could not [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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1 | My mind was so wrapped round with skeins of my own distant past that I could n't immediately come to grips with the demands of the present . |
2 | I could n't even go to the toilet without her . |
3 | And I could n't even talk to you about them . |
4 | Andy 's a real mate he just kept saying straight heads er for all the times when I might have said oh , I could n't really talk to some people last night and he 'd say what you mean straight heads ? he 's right . |
5 | I could n't ever go to the police . |
6 | Neither of these stations are any use to me if my car is out of action , however , because I could not possibly walk to them . |
7 | I could not possibly go to another doctor . |
8 | One could hardly assume that he had not gone to church out of piety and because it was Ash Wednesday , Ianthe thought , but it was rather puzzling and disturbing to think that she could n't even attend to her devotions in peace . |
9 | She could n't even write to her , lest her letters be opened by that two-faced ugly bitch of a matron . |
10 | He might be amazingly good to look at , he might be brilliant company , he might possibly be an amazing lover , though she could n't truthfully testify to that in depth , but jokes and … and sex were n't everything . |
11 | One died recently , but she could n't ever come to terms with the fact that her house had been burgled , and that the er , that some of her most valued contents had been taken . |
12 | Godfrey Carey , for the prosecution , told the jury that the young woman had ‘ only taken a lift from someone in whose hands you could not really expect to be more safe — an officer in uniform ’ . |
13 | On the other hand , T. Rex might have looked really good but everything else about them was so naïve and teenybopperish that you could n't really admit to your mates that you liked them . |
14 | or saying we could n't really take to their child , |
15 | We could n't quite run to a good boarding-school , so we chose Burleigh . ’ |
16 | Unless full powers were given to the pope 's ambassadors their success was likely to be qualified — without telephones , " hotlines " , faxes , they could not speedily refer to the centre . |
17 | He chose to take up the issue precisely because he thought it could not possibly lead to war , in that neither the Tsar , nor the Sultan in whose Empire Jerusalem was , would see the issue as of such importance . |
18 | So now he could n't even bear to be with her . |
19 | When he was at school , but he used to go home for the Christmas holidays and nobody saw him again till about March cos he was , he could n't even get to Rothbury he was snowed in . |
20 | He could not even mention to Dinah that he felt uncertain , unsteady , blind with pain ; he could imagine her brisk reply ‘ Take it to a doctor . ’ |