Example sentences of "could not [verb] [prep] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Portsmouth and Liverpool drew 1–1 at Highbury , and the replay in Birmingham had to be put back when police said they could not cope with it the day before last week 's General Election . |
| 2 | That the advertisement had been in a church magazine was , for my grandfather , sufficient guarantee of respectability , but when the boys arrived in the great city even their inexperience could not hide from them the fact that the respectable lodging was nothing more nor less than a brothel . |
| 3 | I could not disguise from her the gravity of the situation . |
| 4 | Unless it was an ‘ original ’ a document could not carry with it the right to claim delivery of the goods . |
| 5 | I mean if he was hung , drawn and quartered he still could n't pay for it the suffering he 's gon na cause . |