Example sentences of "could not [verb] [pron] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the evening , in her room , she could not finish her letter to him . |
| 2 | In fact we were , rather condescendingly , informed that teaching methods had changed since the 1960s and we could not expect our child to be educated in the same manner as we ourselves had been . |
| 3 | ‘ I could not entrust my life to strangers , ’ he said . |
| 4 | I could not forget my promise to the monster , and the awful work that waited for me . |
| 5 | Now Hyde could not show his face to the world again . |
| 6 | Councillor David Warner , while commenting that he could not bring his find to the council meeting , reported that he had spied a full sized bath with one tap which had been thrown in the hedge in Tunbridge Lane . |
| 7 | Consequently , the former could not owe their form to the latter , and so magical correspondences between them were eliminated . |
| 8 | Despite the centralist tendencies of most non-Catalan Republicans and Socialists , the Republican-Socialist alliance could not escape its commitment to Catalan autonomy . |
| 9 | Although the local authority was sympathetic to her problem , the sum of money available to it for discretionary grants had been severely cut in recent years , so it could not see its way to helping her further . |
| 10 | Catherine could not keep her happiness to herself . |
| 11 | It was only on Aug. 21 that the CPSU had stated its opposition to the coup , when Ivashko demanded to see Gorbachev , because the party could not define its attitude to recent events without its leader . |
| 12 | The Kaszubes in Danzig and Germany found that they could not export their produce to Poland economically simply because Polish produce was cheaper , and in the Corridor they could not export their produce to Germany effectively because , as far as the Germans were concerned , the Kaszubes were Polish . |
| 13 | The Kaszubes in Danzig and Germany found that they could not export their produce to Poland economically simply because Polish produce was cheaper , and in the Corridor they could not export their produce to Germany effectively because , as far as the Germans were concerned , the Kaszubes were Polish . |
| 14 | But her colleagues and superiors could not fault her dedication to the job , speaking highly of her nursing ability . |
| 15 | He was loud against ‘ these new religions ’ ; his woodland life and really intense sympathy with Nature could not overcome his adherence to traditional views of religion . |