Example sentences of "could not [verb] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being fascinated with the problems of developing highly professional staff , and having many years of experience in recruiting from almost every British campus , I could not accept them as good building stone and felt obliged to turn them down . |
| 2 | I certainly could not deprive them of that . |
| 3 | Often they could not find them at all . |
| 4 | For example , a social worker felt that clients could speak more openly to him because they knew he could not recognise them in other contexts , and a counsellor reported that her clients would sometimes say that they could speak more openly knowing that she could not see them . |
| 5 | My parents had died when I was a baby , so I could not remember them at all , but quite often I used to visit the churchyard , about a mile from the village , to look at their names on their gravestones . |
| 6 | ‘ I think that either Floy could n't leave them for some reason , or — ’ |
| 7 | You could n't leave them in those days because there was no social security . |
| 8 | The registry office could n't marry them at such short notice and they must wait until the following day . |
| 9 | We could n't fire them in 1945 because we ran out of fuel . |
| 10 | No , she could n't help them at all . |