Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she could not disregard the friendly warmth of his arms that held her safe from herself until , impossibly , she fell asleep . |
| 2 | " Officers had instructions from their employers that no English need apply and that the best chance a man could have to get employment would be that he could not speak the English language ; then he was sure to get a situation " . |
| 3 | I could not stand the ridiculous questions people came and posed about my work : ‘ But how do you find such interesting subjects for your poems , Mr Kirkup ? ’ |
| 4 | That meant that they could not stand the Central Office youths involved in the nuts and bolts of the campaign . |
| 5 | Our minds could not stand the constant battering of immediate reaction to the myriad perceptions to which we are subject all the time . |
| 6 | Before long he ‘ could not stand the horrid hotels all by myself … |
| 7 | In such a case the plaintiff could recover the extra cost of the special equipment , but could not recover the basic cost of the car if he would have needed one in any event . |
| 8 | Even the freemasonry of European royalty could not displace the professional machine in the transaction of international business . |
| 9 | The hard-nosed bullet struck home into the bull 's chest , wounding it fatally , but it could not stop the lunging charge nor ward off the twin crescents of bone thrust upwards into his body with all the force of the seladang 's powerful neck . |
| 10 | Tears would not bring him back , but somehow her mind could not register that , and she could not stop the slow salt trickle from creeping down her cheeks . |
| 11 | If IBM could not stem the rising tide of networked democracy , will the PRO fare any better ? |
| 12 | During the war with the Khomeini zealots , I could not command the necessary resources to reactivate the programme following the ‘ 81 setback . |
| 13 | Here I was , for some time , the favourite of Mrs. Simper , my lady 's woman , who could not bear the vulgar girls , and was happy in the attendance of a young woman of some education . |
| 14 | She could not bear the sweet pain of it . |
| 15 | It could not bear the bright inspection of another 's sorrow . |
| 16 | People rushed to help but could not reach the dead couple . |
| 17 | Consequently 41% of our patients assigned to dietary treatment , despite hospitalisation , could not tolerate the elemental diet regimen and we could not reproduce the high compliance rates reported by others . |
| 18 | Aideen Rogers won her match 5 and 4 and Tracy Eakin got home 2 and 1 but defeat for Eavan Higgins , Power and McCool meant Mary McKenna 's half in the last match could not affect the overall result . |
| 19 | The engine started first time and the car shot away down the dirt road , but he could not prevent the leading coolie from leaping onto the running board beside the driver 's door . |
| 20 | In 1689 they could not prevent the warlike return of the Waldenses to their native valleys . |
| 21 | He began to remark to others that he could not make the necessary synthesis , perhaps referring to a marriage of his romantic inclinations with the aim , inculcated in him by Colquhoun and MacBryde , to make it ‘ tight ’ , to achieve the kind of fully integrated compositional resolution often associated with classical art . |
| 22 | All the foreign teams are in the mountain trial and the 80 who could not make the main event are in an overflow , starting 0631 hours ! |
| 23 | Leech , who had expected a generous-minded rival , was amazed at Burton 's blunt declaration that if he could not make the acting game pay well and soon , he would be off . |
| 24 | Schmidt and Genscher could not repeat the dramatic advances in foreign policy made by Brandt , and some Germans remained disappointed by the lack of political change in the East , but Genscher 's reputation grew enormously as foreign minister , helping the FDP 's popularity . |
| 25 | His unquiet personality could not outface the somnolent arrogance of the greatest city in the world . |
| 26 | Even the shade could not diminish the sultry heat of the day . |
| 27 | After all , bishops could not announce the correct date for Easter if they had no mathematicians to call upon . |
| 28 | Human sin and devilish enticement could not obliterate the divine image . |
| 29 | It was then the custom of the Church of England that a curate should be ordained to be a deacon ( the lowest order of the ministry ) whose duty was to help the parish priest in all his pastoral duties but who could not perform the priestly acts of celebrating the sacrament or giving absolution or blessing . |
| 30 | He had hoped to repeat his successes of 1985 and 1987 , but could not contain the accurate drawing skills of King . |