Example sentences of "could not [verb] it [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I 've had that taken out because I could n't , I just could not stand it especially in hot weather ! |
| 2 | Clive spilled some of the powder as he heaped it in the spoon , and could not hold it steady over his lighter flame , but finally he got it liquefied . |
| 3 | At Hertford in 1705 , according to Tutchin , when it became clear that the Tackers " could not carry it there by Legal Votes " , the town magistrates created between 100 and 150 " Honorary Freemen , all of the Tackers side " , and managed to ensure a Tory victory . |
| 4 | But the raison déacute ; etre behind this concession was not so that the bowlers could swing the ball more : it was to prevent one ball becoming so discoloured that the batsman could not see it easily under the light of day-night games ! |
| 5 | He could n't leave it there for long . |
| 6 | As she reached them she glanced back at the hire car , knowing that she could n't leave it there for long . |
| 7 | You could n't open it less with force , an it 's great force . |
| 8 | I mean I think there 's the same problem with children in a sense , I mean , you you talking about confronting them with the realities of the world and I suppose I perhaps if we if we did expose ourselves to the erm to the true meaning of what 's going on in the world , we could n't handle it psychologically without stopping it , without doing something about it . |
| 9 | I was unconsciously striving for something different ; I got that from my mother who could n't carry it forward for herself . " |
| 10 | Erm but whether that could n't wear it outside with this |
| 11 | You could n't do it even with the Ship . |
| 12 | The debt counsellor said that as long as I paid all the money I was getting from Social Security for the house , they could n't take it away from us . |
| 13 | ‘ I could n't take it seriously at first because it seemed so ridiculous , but then you look in the statute book and realise the maximum penalty for this is seven years . |
| 14 | Meredith could n't see it properly in the absence of proper street-lights and wondered if it was Tom Fearon 's Mercedes . |