Example sentences of "who could not [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here I was , for some time , the favourite of Mrs. Simper , my lady 's woman , who could not bear the vulgar girls , and was happy in the attendance of a young woman of some education . |
| 2 | It was then the custom of the Church of England that a curate should be ordained to be a deacon ( the lowest order of the ministry ) whose duty was to help the parish priest in all his pastoral duties but who could not perform the priestly acts of celebrating the sacrament or giving absolution or blessing . |
| 3 | All the foreign teams are in the mountain trial and the 80 who could not make the main event are in an overflow , starting 0631 hours ! |
| 4 | When the provision of legal services for those who could not afford the normal fees was dependent upon the charity of the profession , the relationship between client and lawyer must have been somewhat awkward . |
| 5 | Everyone using a Scanner who could not afford the high prices demanded by commercial Optical Character Recognition packages will be delighted with this . |
| 6 | Aaron was taken to hospital by his father , Graham , who could not find the missing digit . |
| 7 | Anyone who could n't make the open day should go along to the Monday evening practice sessions . |
| 8 | Only the owner was excluded from the common knowledge at Kempton that day : that her horse had been wrestled into second place by an apprentice who could n't anticipate the obvious . |
| 9 | Hardly a title to conjure up visions of wild youthful abandonment , ‘ Heaven Knows … ’ pushed The Smiths further into the badlands of bedsit squalor , a Godsend for those who could n't stomach the effortless polish of Sade . |
| 10 | now we 've news of two champions who could n't find the winning formula this weekend |