Example sentences of "could not [adv] [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far from being a challenger for power , it could not even hold on to its old citadels . |
| 2 | Either that , or he could waylay one of the match officials and help run the line where he could not only point out to the referee the error of his ways but also use a brightly-coloured flag to do so . |
| 3 | Of course , Sar n't Major James Graham Biggleswade could n't exactly go back to Blighty and expect them to hang out the welcome mat in Fulham , not after that tricky bit of bloody buggering business down in the Falklands — oh , excuuuuse meeee , the Mal -bloody-buggering- vinas — back in ‘ 81 . |
| 4 | She experienced changeable moods and panic attacks — she had n't been on holiday for 20 years and could n't even go out to dinner for fear of not being able to get away . |
| 5 | He could n't even run down to the village to get a new set — they had them in the marina shop at the auto-marine-because his van was temporarily off the road . |