Example sentences of "could not [verb] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fleury would have liked to have gone , too , but both he and Harry could not go at the same time ; someone had to stay behind to fight off the sepoys . |
| 2 | But those in the field , the front line could not continue without the less than glamorous work that has to be carried out back here in H Q. They also serve , who work in our offices , collect our money , keep our accounts make sure the administration is working well . |
| 3 | He was talking but could not think at the same time . |
| 4 | But if a total consciousness is an organic whole , then some or all of these parts could not exist in the same character in another different sort of whole . |
| 5 | The way in which Eadwine was able eventually to induce Eorpwald , king of the eastern Angles , to accept Christianity ( HE 11 , 15 ) would suggest that the eastern Anglian court was more amenable to Eadwine 's influence than the Mercian upon which Eadwine could not prevail in the same way . |
| 6 | I started to feel I could n't stay in the same room as you . |
| 7 | Erm , well I I could n't speak for the latter two programmes cos I do n't know enough about the arrangements there but I have got a a fair amount of knowledge on both tornado and Eurofighter . |
| 8 | At times , he could n't drink in the same bar as his new white team-mates but there were no barriers to him on the cricket field . |