Example sentences of "could not [adv] [verb] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of these stations are any use to me if my car is out of action , however , because I could not possibly walk to them . |
| 2 | And I could n't even talk to you about them . |
| 3 | One could hardly assume that he had not gone to church out of piety and because it was Ash Wednesday , Ianthe thought , but it was rather puzzling and disturbing to think that she could n't even attend to her devotions in peace . |
| 4 | She could n't even write to her , lest her letters be opened by that two-faced ugly bitch of a matron . |
| 5 | On the other hand , T. Rex might have looked really good but everything else about them was so naïve and teenybopperish that you could n't really admit to your mates that you liked them . |
| 6 | Well I I 'd could n't really swear to anything of that description , but it was it was before the er er old age pensions came out because I remember my Grandmother lived with us and er I remember the first week that she drew her five shillings old age pension . |
| 7 | or saying we could n't really take to their child , |
| 8 | Possibly because we do n't take an ‘ oh , that could n't possibly happen to me ’ attitude to the former . |