Example sentences of "could n't [vb infin] [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one stage in her career , it had seemed you could n't open up a rock paper or one of the tabloids without seeing her tumbling golden mane and her lazy catlike smile captured by one of the many photographers who seemed to dog her every step . |
| 2 | That 's what I meant about the meta-metal , if you took it back to metal you could n't make up a page like your upper and lower case with a big R , unless you spent three years chiselling and fitting the thing , but somehow it looks as if it ought to have been possible to have done it in metal because that 's where it took its springboard from . |
| 3 | She could n't make out the expression on his face as he spoke , and in a way she was glad that she could n't . |
| 4 | She saw the Jaguar parked there but could n't make out the identity of its occupant . |
| 5 | Maggie glanced at her alarm clock , but could n't make out the time . |
| 6 | At first , her eyes still full of tears , she could n't make out the figure . |
| 7 | ‘ Despite several rests ranging from a few days up to a whole week , I could n't shake off the injury and it just got worse . |
| 8 | Also I could n't shake off the imprint of The Fat Controller 's locutions . |
| 9 | She could n't walk off a boat in mid-ocean . |
| 10 | Well , I think a lot of what happens in the academic world is , and my guess is the fundamental reason they get away with it , is that young people wo n't buy much , spending their own money on it , and I think if they were , you could n't serve up a lot of the crap that passes for higher education today . |
| 11 | I could n't think up a lie , despite all my recent practice . |
| 12 | ‘ Are you sure you could n't move over an inch or two ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Could n't let down the guv'nor , ’ Bob said cheerfully . |
| 14 | I , standing on my tiptoes I could n't see out the window to , to look out to the stage erm , and there was a huge step up , it was about that , which was great for people 's bad backs and if you got up on that , erm then you sat on top of a very high cocktail chair , in fact one of our people had to kneel on top of the high cocktail chair , to look , to see down , over the window , down to the stage and they did n't give us a sound feed which would sound familiar |
| 15 | The executioner 's argument was , that you could n't cut off a head unless there was a body to cut it off from … . |
| 16 | I would imagine i , i , if they went to look at it for fire and , or anything like that you 'd be in the wrong cos you could n't get out the kitchen . |
| 17 | No , in the end we just could n't turn down the money . |
| 18 | I could n't keep up the pretence any longer . |
| 19 | The goalkeeper got a finger to it but could n't keep out the screamer . |
| 20 | I could n't keep doon a thing I ate . |
| 21 | What about in rounders when you could n't pick up the ball . |
| 22 | and could n't pick up the sodding two . |
| 23 | I think they both actually probably work it 's just they could n't figure out the programming on them . |