Example sentences of "could not [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ I was in the war , ’ the poppy-seller at Charing Cross said , to explain why he could not go along with the media insistence that this was a good news story . |
| 2 | I could not go in through the house because of the servants . |
| 3 | The human will could not stand back from the Great Battle raging in its own soul as well as in the world at large : it had to choose to contend either for God or the Devil . |
| 4 | Clearly the town could not hold out without the castle , which the Duke contemptuously dismissed as ‘ an old hen-coop which he would speedily bring down about their ears ’ . |
| 5 | And when the ship was caught , and could not bear up into the wind , we let her drive . |
| 6 | I could see by the light of his torch that the cave was deep and spacious ; I could not make out from the beam of light its total dimensions , but clearly a man would have had no problem stretching out to sleep there . |
| 7 | They were tired and ill and they could not walk up to the plateau . |
| 8 | You could not hunch up into the tree , hugging closer to the trunk . |
| 9 | If his education were below that of his audience he could not fall back on the validity of the Sacraments he administered for support . |
| 10 | I ’ ) — could not live up to the high expectations created by German propaganda . |
| 11 | The dog leaped at the closest man who , encumbered with carbine and sword , could not cut down at the beast , then Sharpe 's mare slammed into the Frenchman 's horse and the big sword slashed down at the Dragoon . |
| 12 | The hospital management team for Claybury rejected the idea of the quadrant hospital concept , since this could not tie in with the principle of community care . |
| 13 | I could not keep up with the demands of trying to keep everyone happy , and in desperation to make sure I keep my looks , I gave up eating , ’ she is alleged to have said . |
| 14 | I was just beginning to get to grips with the Campaign for Ink Print Information , but Women 's Tapeover could not keep up with the steady stream of new feminist writing that was emerging week by week . |
| 15 | It could now be argued that , throughout the history of the earth , Nature had rewarded those who were able and energetic , and punished those who could not keep up with the race towards higher things . |
| 16 | Jackdaws are supposed to be great collectors , but even a jackdaw could not fly off with the hands , feet and eyeballs of a four year old crammed into its beak all at once . |
| 17 | It was he who had to listen to how the clients could never get through on the telephone , how they were chased by debt collectors even when they had paid , how they could not find up to the minute share prices , etc . |
| 18 | He could not get on with the believing Jews from Eastern Europe whose religion and traditions he neither shared nor understood . |
| 19 | I was never happy all the time , but i could get no character and could not get out of the life . |
| 20 | It was then he found he could not get out of the finance deal . |
| 21 | Now I though he would have hysterics ; he could not get down on the ground quick enough to carry this action out . |
| 22 | And yet , she could not apply that anger to jealousy , she could not storm out across the field and challenge Wynne-Jones 's daughter for the body of the man they both , in their own ways , loved . |