Example sentences of "could n't [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Dem could n't leave dat message fe me . |
2 | Even her father could n't exert that kind of power over her . |
3 | Lay me on another half a gram ’ … and they 'd go , ‘ Alright ’ … in the end , you 'd owe them a coupla grams and you 'd have to go shoplifting in Chester or something 'cos you could n't go round town in case they were there … . |
4 | Reynolds looked at the title of the piece , but he could n't make much sense of it . |
5 | But he could n't make any sense of it . |
6 | He could n't make any sense of it at all . |
7 | He could n't make any sense of it . |
8 | We could n't make any decision on Mr Maxwell s behalf . |
9 | Very few athletes enter sport without the assistance and encouragement of a teacher who might innocently create serious tensions , as with Jackie Jackson , whose PE teacher strengthened her commitment to athletics , a commitment which proved destructive to her educational aims , as she pointed out : ‘ I was spending so much time in athletics that I could n't give enough time to my ‘ A ’ levels . ’ |
10 | ‘ Many of them who had pensions and medals and jobs later could n't tell one end of a gun from the other . |
11 | Miyazaki 's attorney 's defence of his warped client was that , for Miyazaki , video and reality had merged ; he could n't tell gory fact from gory fiction . |
12 | The whole truth is I simply could n't face another attack of those hellish nerves on stage . |
13 | I was also excited at the prospect of earning some reward , and I could n't sleep that night for thinking about visiting her in the morning . |
14 | you know it 's either salted popcorn or the sweet popcorn , I could n't eat that amount of salt , it is chock-a-block full up with popcorn |
15 | I could n't spare any time at all . |
16 | And there was a funny silence and Dylan said that he 'd bet I could n't do that scream like that with a cigarette in my mouth and I shook off the centuries , stopped staring , smiled a little , noted that he had indeed monumentally screamed with a cigarette in his mouth and went stunned back to my crossword . ’ |
17 | I got instructions off you to be able do you know I could n't do that timer for love nor money . |
18 | Humans could n't do that sort of thing . |
19 | That you could n't feel this way with anyone else . ’ |
20 | Hailed as the weird and wonderful show that dared to be different , the media could n't lavish enough praise on David Lynch 's Twin Peaks when it debuted on American television in April . |
21 | I , I could n't produce any evidence of malpractice , I mean I could |
22 | Next month he planned to retire from the army , but says he could n't resist this call to duty . |
23 | SHe could n't understand Tammuz' mania for disguise , given that nobody knew about what he had discovered , except for his friends below . |
24 | But on one mysterious occasion the sado-manager waived the rules and waved us in : we could n't understand this behaviour at all , but took up the offer nevertheless , putting it down to grown-up inconsistency . |
25 | During training I had no asthma-related problems , so I could n't understand this decision at all . |
26 | If you 're the sort of person who thinks that Parliamentary democracy is a reasonably important thing , you could n't take much pleasure from the findings of the enquiry into the way Rover was sold off . |
27 | It could n't take one cylinder of it |
28 | She had hesitated but he could n't take that hesitation as a refusal . |
29 | Anyhow I just could n't take another week like this again . |
30 | At that stage in my life I could n't take any kind of failure , and so this latter model of womanhood was as unacceptable to me as the former . |