Example sentences of "could not [vb infin] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could not go for a walk that afternoon . |
| 2 | Mum always bragged about never borrowing off anyone but I had noticed that since Dad had been on short time she seemed to have more money than ever to spend and was getting more friendly with the neighbours she could not stand as a rule . |
| 3 | He could not stand from a sitting position without using his arms and walked with difficulty unsupported . |
| 4 | The British Columbians , despite dogged persistence , could not cope with a pack in which eight men worked as one and where possession once obtained was so powerfully and cunningly retained . |
| 5 | Obviously the NZRFU could not fit in a tour to South Africa in the second half of that heavy programme . |
| 6 | She could not hold in a corner of her mind the rational knowledge that this was purely childish . |
| 7 | After citing passages from Amand 's case Sir John Donaldson M.R. , with whose judgment Kerr and Lloyd L.JJ. agreed , observed , at p. 977 , that he could not think of a case in which the order appealed from arose more clearly in a criminal cause or matter . |
| 8 | Back at his hotel , packing for his return to London , John wondered how to fit this large acquisition into his luggage , could not think of a way , decided that he did not want a souvenir of the trip anyway because of his gloom about the impending ballet , so tore it up and threw it in the wastepaper basket . |
| 9 | For twenty minutes and more I could not think of a thing to write . |
| 10 | At first he sat looking at his feet , and she could not think of a thing to say . |
| 11 | Until she met Rainald she could not think of a future , with or without fitzAlan . |
| 12 | Taken by surprise , she could not answer for a moment and than said angrily , ‘ If you knew , why did n't you say something before ? ’ |
| 13 | With mid-summer approaching , it is hardly the time to reflect on winter festivals , but the success of the kids Christmas party in the canteen on 15th December could not pass without a mention . |
| 14 | He could not walk into a room without arousing a response . |
| 15 | The argument of Edward 's lawyers that a woman could not succeed to a fief was not upheld by local custom , and so Jean I of Armagnac remained the beneficiary of much of the de Goth inheritance in the duchy . |
| 16 | CD 's fourth novel , and the first of the two serialized in his weekly periodical , Master Humphrey 's Clock , 1840–1 , after an early drop in sales had convinced him that the magazine could not succeed as a miscellany . |
| 17 | On the other hand , ‘ society could not exist without a morality which mirrored and supplemented the law 's proscription of conduct injurious to others ’ . |
| 18 | At first I thought that Anthony Trollope , though an amusing writer , was another male author of the nineteenth century who assumed that women could not exist without a man somewhere in the vicinity . |
| 19 | These atoms , as we have seen , are spewed out from dying stars ; but it would take at least a billion years for a star to use up all its helium energy and explode , hence life could not exist in a universe consisting of the shortest-living stars , since the necessary elements such as carbon would not exist . |
| 20 | We could not undress for a week in case of a submarine attack , and you all got a little cross , I remember . |
| 21 | Denis Wrong also points out that other sociologists , such as Homans and Inkeles , realized that sociology could not manage without a theory of human nature , implicit if not explicit , in its theories . |
| 22 | I just could not do without a diary that starts on Monday . |
| 23 | ‘ You snored all night , ’ he said with relish , and Cermait got up and removed himself from this low vulgar company , because you could not stay in a room with people who told the High Queen that you snored . |
| 24 | In Dekker the employer had tried to argue that the refusal to hire was not on the grounds of pregnancy but on the ground of adverse financial consequences the firm could not pay for a replacement during the period of maternity leave needed by Ms Dekker and as a result the firm would be short-staffed . |
| 25 | I could not live without a steam iron , or an electric kettle . |
| 26 | By the time that you have battled against the wind to get there , you may find that it has some hazard that you could not see from a distance , and then there may be no other good field within reach . |
| 27 | The taxpayer 's claim that he could not comply with a s 8 , TMA 1970 notice requiring him to submit tax returns as he was not in possession of the full facts to enable him to complete the returns properly was rejected in the High Court in Alexander v Wallington General Commissioners and IRC [ 1992 ] STI 264 . |
| 28 | St Antonino of Florence felt that the professional soldier could not fight in a war the justice of which was not above doubt , nor could he be given absolution as long as he continued to fight in that cause . |
| 29 | The unfree did not exist legally and could not plead in a court . |
| 30 | There is no legally guaranteed freedom of speech , no legal right to a fair trial which Parliament could not remove at a stroke . |