Example sentences of "could not [vb infin] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The easterners could not complain too bitterly while their exports to Western Europe were growing by double-digit amounts . |
| 2 | Perhaps I am so preconditioned by tables that I could not reflect quickly enough that there are other ways of getting the answer . |
| 3 | She , in whom a natural clear spring of charm flowed vigorously , who expostulated , articulated and knew her own mind with commanding grace — in private , not in public of course ( before others who were not family , such confidence in a girl would seem an outrage ) — could not speak up now and tell Rosa what she felt . |
| 4 | Because of his Cartesianism , Malebranche could not go so far as to say that material objects were not really extended or in motion , but Pierre Bayle had argued that such restraint was unjustifiable . |
| 5 | Even Amabel could not go so far as to trouble Gemma . |
| 6 | We then asked him , if he could not go so far as to meet us in full , to introduce an empowering provision . |
| 7 | Several attempts , he wrote , had been made by " former prospectors " to sink upon this lode " but it is heavily watered that they could not go down more than 3 or 4 fathoms deep " . |
| 8 | Without the work of these dedicated men and women the Church could not progress as rapidly as it does . |
| 9 | ‘ We could not move back home and we had reached the end of Palestine . ’ |
| 10 | On a more phenomenological level , if we wanted some visual analogue to the associationist view of mental life we could not do much better than think of one of those ‘ psychedelic ’ slide-shows popular in the late 1960s , in which lights were projected through oil , producing coloured globs which met , merged and repelled in a series of kaleidoscopic patterns . |
| 11 | Her deafness became evident at the age of 12 while she was attending a school run by a Reverend Perry , when she found that she could not hear very well if she sat too far from the teacher , and by the time she was 16 , it had worsened as to become very noticeable and inconvenient to herself . |
| 12 | Yet the Nazis knew that they could not behave too outrageously because there was always the threat that the League of Nations might call in the Poles to annex the city and suppress the NSDAP in the name of European peace . |
| 13 | Pc Kelly told the jury he could not breathe very well and tried to make himself comfortable . |
| 14 | As she searched for them in her pocket , Oliver could not wait any longer and ran into her arms . |
| 15 | You could n't leave in less than two days . |
| 16 | but , then the next morning of course when Wendy got home she 'd been down my nephew 's looking after the kids for them and erm , and said we 've come to arrest you , and no , oh Rachael said oh mum there 's a police car pulled up outside , so she said , oh my god do n't tell me they 're wrong and it is Tracey , cos Tracey 's left home , she 's gone to live with her friend and erm , anyway , when Wendy got to the stairs she could n't go in , she could n't go any further and she said erm , when , when the policeman said Mrs I 've come to arrest you , she just about said Christ she said what have I done ? |
| 17 | But she doubted it would go any further — well , could n't go any further as she was only staying the one night . |
| 18 | Though I could n't go so far as to say that service was included as all the waiters seemed interested in was getting the lights off so they could dance with Sorrel . |
| 19 | ‘ So you could n't go as far as saying who it might have been calling on the Rector at that late hour ? ’ |
| 20 | And he could n't make out why cos he 's quite vicious , his ferret . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've never been so near to causing a dock strike , ’ says Chris , who adds : ‘ I could n't apologise quickly enough and I was forgiven . |
| 22 | Anyway the workload gradually increased until I found I could n't continue any longer and have been off work for the last six months . |
| 23 | Elinor was sometimes at a loss for the right word , or name , and then became impatient with herself ; she was often frustrated because she could n't move as swiftly as she did before . |
| 24 | I sat in the arm-chair , gazing at the bed , wondering drearily why it was that you could n't crawl away anywhere and hide , why there were always people wherever you went , new people to get involved with and to create new meshes of unhappiness and responsibility . |
| 25 | ‘ Come off it , you do consistently well in all your modules — I 've had a word with your course tutor — and as you 've been continually assessed , you could n't flunk now even if you wanted to . |
| 26 | Eva could n't help herself crying out at him , and he could n't see how suddenly and cruelly he 'd wounded her . |
| 27 | I 'm just gon na ring up cos mum could n't get through yesterday so she 's given me her credit card number to order things . |
| 28 | But erm this was cos the Germans were so angry cos they could n't get up there and they lost so many men up there . |
| 29 | well I could n't get up there because she know |
| 30 | And er really er they themselves thought exactly the same like , but they were talking about other people telling them you know that they could n't get this far but they did . |