Example sentences of "could n't [verb] [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dem could n't leave dat message fe me . |
| 2 | Even her father could n't exert that kind of power over her . |
| 3 | Reynolds looked at the title of the piece , but he could n't make much sense of it . |
| 4 | But he could n't make any sense of it . |
| 5 | He could n't make any sense of it at all . |
| 6 | He could n't make any sense of it . |
| 7 | We could n't make any decision on Mr Maxwell s behalf . |
| 8 | Very few athletes enter sport without the assistance and encouragement of a teacher who might innocently create serious tensions , as with Jackie Jackson , whose PE teacher strengthened her commitment to athletics , a commitment which proved destructive to her educational aims , as she pointed out : ‘ I was spending so much time in athletics that I could n't give enough time to my ‘ A ’ levels . ’ |
| 9 | The whole truth is I simply could n't face another attack of those hellish nerves on stage . |
| 10 | I was also excited at the prospect of earning some reward , and I could n't sleep that night for thinking about visiting her in the morning . |
| 11 | you know it 's either salted popcorn or the sweet popcorn , I could n't eat that amount of salt , it is chock-a-block full up with popcorn |
| 12 | I could n't spare any time at all . |
| 13 | And there was a funny silence and Dylan said that he 'd bet I could n't do that scream like that with a cigarette in my mouth and I shook off the centuries , stopped staring , smiled a little , noted that he had indeed monumentally screamed with a cigarette in his mouth and went stunned back to my crossword . ’ |
| 14 | I got instructions off you to be able do you know I could n't do that timer for love nor money . |
| 15 | Humans could n't do that sort of thing . |
| 16 | That you could n't feel this way with anyone else . ’ |
| 17 | Hailed as the weird and wonderful show that dared to be different , the media could n't lavish enough praise on David Lynch 's Twin Peaks when it debuted on American television in April . |
| 18 | I , I could n't produce any evidence of malpractice , I mean I could |
| 19 | Next month he planned to retire from the army , but says he could n't resist this call to duty . |
| 20 | But on one mysterious occasion the sado-manager waived the rules and waved us in : we could n't understand this behaviour at all , but took up the offer nevertheless , putting it down to grown-up inconsistency . |
| 21 | During training I had no asthma-related problems , so I could n't understand this decision at all . |
| 22 | If you 're the sort of person who thinks that Parliamentary democracy is a reasonably important thing , you could n't take much pleasure from the findings of the enquiry into the way Rover was sold off . |
| 23 | She had hesitated but he could n't take that hesitation as a refusal . |
| 24 | Anyhow I just could n't take another week like this again . |
| 25 | At that stage in my life I could n't take any kind of failure , and so this latter model of womanhood was as unacceptable to me as the former . |
| 26 | I could n't see much point in viewing this perfectly healthy animal again but I promised to call . |
| 27 | But he could n't see that happening to Henry . |
| 28 | Could n't see any sign of nervousness myself but er I 'm very happy with his sermons , quite good . |
| 29 | Blake could n't see any form of power and assumed this was a machine-driven contraption . |
| 30 | She was more than well acquainted with Lubor 's proclivity to see an invitation to grow amorous where there was none , though since he could n't do more than verbally flirt over the dinner table she could n't see any harm in accepting . |