Example sentences of "could n't [verb] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lou Macari signed a three year contract with Celtic this afternoon then told Scotland Today he would walk away if he could n't bring success to the club in that time . |
| 2 | He could n't tell direction in the fog . |
| 3 | Roger From the Practice could n't tell emphysema from the common cold . |
| 4 | She could n't reach Kelpie from the nearest branch to him , but when she was as near as she could get she put out her hand and called softly to him , just as she used to do at home . |
| 5 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 6 | Biggerstaff 's Metro 6R4 suffered a puncture on his first run but even a courageous charge at the second attempt could n't displace Woodside at the top of the list . |
| 7 | ‘ A Busby Berkeley lineup in front of his bed could n't wake Sam in the middle of the night , ’ Clare said . |
| 8 | It was a good thing the cameras could n't take pictures of the way she felt , she thought , and smiled inside herself . |
| 9 | Er the water was coming in and you could n't put mats on the floor . |
| 10 | Could n't put mats on the floor . |
| 11 | He could n't see curvature in the third dimension . |
| 12 | The girls who sign up for fashion 's survival course say they could n't imagine life on the other side of the camera . |
| 13 | I could n't find Basil at the prize-giving . |
| 14 | I ca n't remember the wages they paid us but we could n't get work in the shops anyway . |
| 15 | I could n't get CNN in the glorious Econo Lodge , but I wondered what had become of Arnett and Shaw and Holliman . |
| 16 | ‘ You see , we could n't get gigs in the city of Cork , so we used to play these places around the county . |
| 17 | We were sat in the North Bank ( could n't get tickets for the Leeds end ) , and in the second half we had a good view of the amount of space that the Arsenal forwards were getting , it was unbelievable . |
| 18 | We could n't get seats in the main tent . |