Example sentences of "he could not [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could not stop the clear physical image of their bodies together . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , he was a man prudent enough to realise that he could not antagonise the entire civil service . |
| 3 | He secured permission from the Home Secretary for Lizzy to be disinterred but , unlike Berlioz , he could not face the grisly spectacle , and delegated the task to his lawyer . |
| 4 | No matter how hard he pulled , from every angle , he could not lift the front cover . |
| 5 | Robert Converse who was not in this heat reported he could not pull the usual manifold pressure he uses when racing . |
| 6 | He heard the Town Hall clock chime the hour and he could not ignore the growing fear that this time the very worst had happened . |
| 7 | " Officers had instructions from their employers that no English need apply and that the best chance a man could have to get employment would be that he could not speak the English language ; then he was sure to get a situation " . |
| 8 | Daly is a human roller-coaster ; last of the four-day survivors at last summer 's Open because he could not handle the tight approaches , first again six weeks later when he shot 67 , 66 , 67 , 66 to grab the $144,000 first prize at New York 's BC Open . |
| 9 | He could not change the monarchical nature of the government or the hereditary nature of the monarchy . |
| 10 | The engine started first time and the car shot away down the dirt road , but he could not prevent the leading coolie from leaping onto the running board beside the driver 's door . |
| 11 | He began to remark to others that he could not make the necessary synthesis , perhaps referring to a marriage of his romantic inclinations with the aim , inculcated in him by Colquhoun and MacBryde , to make it ‘ tight ’ , to achieve the kind of fully integrated compositional resolution often associated with classical art . |
| 12 | Leech , who had expected a generous-minded rival , was amazed at Burton 's blunt declaration that if he could not make the acting game pay well and soon , he would be off . |
| 13 | This time he could not believe the white flag . |
| 14 | It was , however , unfortunate that he could not save the resultant penalties which gave Sidcombe an undeserved 3–0 win . |
| 15 | He could not imagine the stunted , blinkered , and self-regarding mind that could contemplate the killing of another human being . |
| 16 | He could not raise the additional finance to purchase the bacon-curing business so withdrew from the agreement , recovered his £1,000 deposit and purchased a yacht with the intention of doing charter work to the Caribbean . |
| 17 | It appears that Moore 's observations were based on preserved specimens : he could not see the inner rows . |
| 18 | He could not see the distinctive yellow of Frances 's car . |
| 19 | He thanked her , and said that near it would do ; he could not see the well-groomed equipage negotiating the Bell o' the Brae . |
| 20 | One , the friend of the new French Prime Minister , Georges Bidault , had apparently been told that he could not concede the fundamental issue of independence ; for the other , who was to succeed Ho on his death , and for the large and varied delegation which came to Paris under the title of the Popular National Front ( Lien Viet ) everything , practically , turned on the question of Cochinchina . |
| 21 | Mr Geoff Addy said he could not afford the crippling rise in payments on the Old Dun Cow in Post House Wynd . |
| 22 | Frederick had true imperial blood in his veins as the son of the Emperor Henry VI and the grandson of Barbarossa and he could not allow the narrow strip of fifty miles or so of corridor land to impede his ambitions . |
| 23 | For the same reason , therefore , he could not allow the open fields to be enclosed . |
| 24 | Having concluded that he could not win the presidential election in November , he said , " it would have been disruptive for us to continue " . |
| 25 | He could not abide the spoilt and pampered younger son of the Earl of Hopetoun . |
| 26 | The feel of Master Harry 's mallet in his hand , the way the heel of it swung in his palm , filled him with a fever of ambition and impatience , and he could not wait the threatened few days for the assay . |
| 27 | He could not keep the good news in . |