Example sentences of "could not [verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sons and spouses attended the meeting , having prepared beforehand that they would tell their mother personally that they could not offer her a home , but would keep in touch with . |
| 2 | Rain asked whether he could not tell her the story on the telephone . |
| 3 | Which was okay when he was younger ; his mother , she had helped him choose his first wigs ( even if he could not tell her the cause of his fright , all his hair was on the pillow ) . |
| 4 | She felt she could not tell him the truth to his face , but there was another way . |
| 5 | She could not tell him about Havvie ; neither could she speak the lie to him , not to Dr Neil , but she could not tell him the truth , for that would mean telling him who she was , and she could not tell him that , not here , not now ; it would spoil everything between them if he knew that she was the spoiled and pampered American Princess . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ The supporters know I have always spoken to them in honesty and when I could not give them the truth I have kept my mouth shut . |
| 7 | I told the hon. Gentleman that I could not give him the information for which he asked until October , when the 1991 population figures would become available . |
| 8 | And I 'm glad enough to have you back , since you could not give me the grandson I hoped for — ’ |
| 9 | I was prepared to tell la Principessa you could not pay her a visit . ’ |
| 10 | Because I was less a true coward , a calculating coward , than someone so innocent , or so Greek , that he could not see what the war had to do with him . |
| 11 | Sad that the industry of our age could not keep what the ingenuity of the former found out . |
| 12 | When an increasing number of psychologists could not find what the theory required them to find , the theory was modified . |
| 13 | His arm still lay there , so gently that she could not find it a pressure . |
| 14 | One could not know what an experience was like without knowing whether it was pleasurable or not , but one could know what it was like without recognizing its value , even though this follows necessarily from its being like just what it was . |
| 15 | Lucien felt so dazed he could not remember what a smile was supposed to mean ; to him , it looked vaguely threatening . |
| 16 | He found himself saying , ‘ In 1919 the Enabling Act was passed ’ and then could not remember what the Enabling Act was ; although it was and still in part is the Act which defines the nature of the establishment in England . |
| 17 | He could not deny her the comfort of this lie any more than he could deny her a piece of bread if she were starving . |