Example sentences of "they could n't [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they could n't leave them all standing outside . |
| 2 | Finally , they could n't stand it any more . |
| 3 | For the long journey to the Pole , they needed a lot of food , and they could n't carry it all with them . |
| 4 | Some days er they worked longer hours and harder work and there were other days which er which erm they could n't do anything much , just potter around in the buildings . |
| 5 | He , He went into hospital and they said erm that it 's the muscles of his heart that were affected they could n't do anything more for him ! |
| 6 | Well it holding it in pawn , waiting for somebody to ask him to have a drink , and invariably somebody would but if they did ask him they 'd always ask him back next time you know if they could n't do it this time . |
| 7 | ‘ Of course , we were devastated , but we knew now what had been wrong all along — and at least they could n't blame me any more . ’ |
| 8 | age of six months that they could n't handle me any more . |
| 9 | Yeah , yeah , oh yes of course a lot of the people were , that were in the we were in under the balcony but they were up to their knees in plaster and goodness knows what that had come out of the roof they could n't move it all dropped round them . |
| 10 | Well they told , they , they told us that we could n't get i they could n't get us any |
| 11 | ‘ They detonated an explosive device next to one , and it disintegrated into so many pieces they could n't find them all . |
| 12 | I was in there nearly three years , or two and a half years anyway and , of course , I when I passed to go to the Q M of course , I , I used to do the Headmaster 's and all that but they , they could n't teach me any more because you , you can only have the same lessons as them that have been taught you know . |