Example sentences of "could not [adv] [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless full powers were given to the pope 's ambassadors their success was likely to be qualified — without telephones , " hotlines " , faxes , they could not speedily refer to the centre . |
| 2 | He turned and said something that Elisa could not quite catch to a young girl , unnoticed before , who had stationed herself by the door . |
| 3 | I could n't even go to the toilet without her . |
| 4 | Old Granny Fordham , who lived in a lonely cottage on the Enderley estate , could n't afford luxuries like butter and eggs , and could n't easily get to the shops in the village , so it would be doing a real service to take Mrs. Grant 's gift to her . |
| 5 | We could n't quite run to a good boarding-school , so we chose Burleigh . ’ |
| 6 | I could n't ever go to the police . |