Example sentences of "could not [verb] out [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly the town could not hold out without the castle , which the Duke contemptuously dismissed as ‘ an old hen-coop which he would speedily bring down about their ears ’ . |
| 2 | I could see by the light of his torch that the cave was deep and spacious ; I could not make out from the beam of light its total dimensions , but clearly a man would have had no problem stretching out to sleep there . |
| 3 | I was never happy all the time , but i could get no character and could not get out of the life . |
| 4 | It was then he found he could not get out of the finance deal . |
| 5 | And yet , she could not apply that anger to jealousy , she could not storm out across the field and challenge Wynne-Jones 's daughter for the body of the man they both , in their own ways , loved . |