Example sentences of "could not [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The easterners could not complain too bitterly while their exports to Western Europe were growing by double-digit amounts . |
| 2 | Perhaps I am so preconditioned by tables that I could not reflect quickly enough that there are other ways of getting the answer . |
| 3 | She , in whom a natural clear spring of charm flowed vigorously , who expostulated , articulated and knew her own mind with commanding grace — in private , not in public of course ( before others who were not family , such confidence in a girl would seem an outrage ) — could not speak up now and tell Rosa what she felt . |
| 4 | Because of his Cartesianism , Malebranche could not go so far as to say that material objects were not really extended or in motion , but Pierre Bayle had argued that such restraint was unjustifiable . |
| 5 | Even Amabel could not go so far as to trouble Gemma . |
| 6 | We then asked him , if he could not go so far as to meet us in full , to introduce an empowering provision . |
| 7 | Several attempts , he wrote , had been made by " former prospectors " to sink upon this lode " but it is heavily watered that they could not go down more than 3 or 4 fathoms deep " . |
| 8 | Without the work of these dedicated men and women the Church could not progress as rapidly as it does . |
| 9 | ‘ We could not move back home and we had reached the end of Palestine . ’ |
| 10 | On a more phenomenological level , if we wanted some visual analogue to the associationist view of mental life we could not do much better than think of one of those ‘ psychedelic ’ slide-shows popular in the late 1960s , in which lights were projected through oil , producing coloured globs which met , merged and repelled in a series of kaleidoscopic patterns . |
| 11 | Her deafness became evident at the age of 12 while she was attending a school run by a Reverend Perry , when she found that she could not hear very well if she sat too far from the teacher , and by the time she was 16 , it had worsened as to become very noticeable and inconvenient to herself . |
| 12 | Yet the Nazis knew that they could not behave too outrageously because there was always the threat that the League of Nations might call in the Poles to annex the city and suppress the NSDAP in the name of European peace . |
| 13 | Pc Kelly told the jury he could not breathe very well and tried to make himself comfortable . |
| 14 | As she searched for them in her pocket , Oliver could not wait any longer and ran into her arms . |