Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hair on his face was untrimmed , and his nose had spread with drinking , but the weather-hard skin was not the skin of a drunkard , and if the hair on his temples was thinning , you could not see it for the leather fillet he wore . |
| 2 | ‘ You could n't stand it for a second . ’ |
| 3 | I knew he was so incensed he could n't control himself ; I could n't blame him for the fury which inhabited him . |
| 4 | But even I could n't blame him for the phone ringing just as I was at the front door . |
| 5 | Almost that , and I want to say that I have some sympathy for the lady who has children and just could n't entertain them for the day . |
| 6 | Batty could n't make it for the second half against Villa after a recurrence of a calf injury he received against Wimbledon last Saturday . |
| 7 | I know you could n't hurt her for the world . |
| 8 | She looked at him as though in understanding , but she could n't answer him for a moment for there were so many things whirling around in her mind : that doctor and her Emma … |
| 9 | well you could but you could n't sell it for a reasonable price . |