Example sentences of "i could not [vb infin] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did n't matter how innovative the products I set out to market actually were , I could not prevent myself from seeing them already in some illimitable bazaar of the far future , long obsolete and hopelessly dated , so much cosmological car-boot-sale fodder . |
| 2 | But I could not stop myself from more murder . |
| 3 | ( I should point out that I could not bring myself to a Japanese option ! ) |
| 4 | I could not restrain myself from hastening to view one of those Druid circles , of which there are so many in the Isle of Lewis ; that given in the small vignette is the first one I reached . |
| 5 | I was now certain that I could not see myself in any type of residential home in the future . |
| 6 | Ellen was emphatic : — I could not take myself to a Foreign Land as you did Lily and never wanted such a thing and though you would be there that alone would in no way satisfy me and I should be afraid . |
| 7 | If I had ever loved you , if I loved you still , I could not hate myself for my weakness as much as I do now . ’ |