Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fleury would have liked to have gone , too , but both he and Harry could not go at the same time ; someone had to stay behind to fight off the sepoys . |
| 2 | He was talking but could not think at the same time . |
| 3 | It rained upon them at Elgin and Johnson again ran into culinary difficulty with a lunch he could not eat at the Red Lion inn . |
| 4 | The outside world could not guess at the disturbing cross-currents . |
| 5 | The carcass , unfortunately , was in quite an advanced state of decomposition by the time we got to it , so we could not look at the detailed histology ( cell structure ) of the internal organs or the central nervous system . |
| 6 | I was so disappointed that I could n't speak at the final whistle . ’ |
| 7 | When his coolie picked up the shafts and broke into his loping stride , Joseph found he could n't look at the narrow , sweat-streaked shoulders bobbing in front of him without seeing the bleeding welts caused by the French colon 's cane . |