Example sentences of "could not [adv] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was clear that he and Sarah could not easily talk to each other about sexual issues . |
| 2 | The University of Reading 's survey comments that most small farmers ‘ could not even subsist on these farms if they did not have outside sources of income . |
| 3 | South Africa could not subsequently retreat from that position . |
| 4 | Mark could not really enter into such things . |
| 5 | I say if she thought till she was tired , she could not possibly think of any wrong … . |
| 6 | I could not possibly go to another doctor . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , I 'm sure we could let you out for that , McAllister , ’ Dr Neil had said , only for Sally-Anne to murmur modestly that since she was already well treated for time off she could not possibly ask for more . |
| 8 | If the training set also includes cats , dogs and cows , then we could not always ask for these values . |
| 9 | There were archers with them , but not a great company , and some three-score men-at-arms , all mounted ; and a knot of bright devices he could not quite read at that distance , though their colours did almost as well . |
| 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 | If he wanted unglamorous , he should see what she looked like in surgical greens after about twelve hours in the OR , though , of course , she could n't even hint at that . |
| 12 | Well , she could n't even complain about that — he 'd been upfront about his intentions , had never pretended to feel anything he did n't . |
| 13 | But you could n't fucking move at that . |
| 14 | But I could n't honestly ask for that because it was n't the purpose of our plan . |
| 15 | made it down the right hand side , he 's wearing number eleven but he came down the right hand side on this occasion and er a deep cross , he pulled it back brilliantly and who 'd missed that earlier header was there and could n't really miss on this occasion , but it was a fine header by him . |
| 16 | I could n't really cope with this separation , despite that fact that we live only about a minute from the SCBU . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | People could n't really afford to that then . |
| 19 | I do n't think I could ever go back to Bedford to live , and I could n't never live in that flat anyway because it 's been desecrated . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , the only pot-bellied old man they ran into was clutching a plastic container of meths , and our heroes could n't quite sink to such a Lollapalooza level of debauchery … |
| 21 | ‘ She was an earth-mother type who could n't quite believe in all her success . |
| 22 | I could n't possibly compete in those stakes , so I racked my brain to think of small things which they might like . |
| 23 | ‘ My mother could n't possibly cope with that great big house of yours , ’ she said . |
| 24 | If you did , there 's one fact that you could n't possibly explain about this . |
| 25 | I do n't mind the half past nine , half past , but I do feel concerned about those older people , who 've already said they they could n't possibly get for half past nine . |
| 26 | ‘ It could n't possibly work at all . |
| 27 | I spend a lot of time gloomily thinking I could n't possibly write about that , and then eventually I do it . |