Example sentences of "could n't [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and could n't clear it at the end of the quarter ? |
| 2 | They could n't hold one with a defendant who was just a mangled lump of flesh . ’ |
| 3 | Erm , we , we could n't nominate anyone at the A G M , no one was willing to do it . |
| 4 | ‘ Rose felt we could n't leave it until the morning . |
| 5 | small room , you could n't leave anything on the walls so it would all be a come down at night , back up in the morning |
| 6 | We could n't bring her into the house because we had an old cat and we had no spare kennels , so that just left the caravan . |
| 7 | It was n't only that I could n't lift myself off the ground but that I was stuck to it in some way . |
| 8 | ‘ You could n't stand it for a second . ’ |
| 9 | My mum could n't stand it in the end she sa let's get back to bomb there ! |
| 10 | I knew he was so incensed he could n't control himself ; I could n't blame him for the fury which inhabited him . |
| 11 | But even I could n't blame him for the phone ringing just as I was at the front door . |
| 12 | Almost that , and I want to say that I have some sympathy for the lady who has children and just could n't entertain them for the day . |
| 13 | On Christmas Eve , listening to herself making yet more excuses on the telephone , explaining why they could n't make it to a family party , hearing her sister 's disappointment . |
| 14 | I would have to wait until Mum and Dad went out to the pub so we could n't make it to the first . |
| 15 | He explained he was having a dizzy spell and could n't make it to the doctor 's , so I drove him there . |
| 16 | Batty could n't make it for the second half against Villa after a recurrence of a calf injury he received against Wimbledon last Saturday . |
| 17 | She could n't decipher it in the pitch black . |
| 18 | ‘ But I told them if we could n't beat them without a boom , we did n't deserve to be in the finals . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Putney Heath , but I could n't tell you on the telephone . ’ |
| 20 | Er I I could n't tell you off the top of me head I because I was working on it till half past midnight . |
| 21 | No but you see I could n't tell you at the start because you 'd sound , you would n't have said half the things you did say . |
| 22 | You could n't tell it from the real thing . ’ |
| 23 | Sometimes our bodies and minds seek excuses to experience griefs that we may have put aside or denied because we could n't face them at the time . |
| 24 | and we could n't eat it on the Sunday and |
| 25 | Even the GenTech wizards , Dr Zarathustra and W. D. Donovan , could only reconstruct a ruined face ; they could n't do anything about a shredded psyche , a ruptured personality , a raped memory … |
| 26 | The GenTech labs could n't do anything about the common cold and no government had been able to develop a workable public transport system , but when it came to deathware , why , there were wonderful new toys on the market every fall , just in time for Christmas . |
| 27 | And I could n't do anything about the body , could I ? |
| 28 | But , since she could n't do anything about the car situation until that wretched part had been delivered , should n't she concentrate her worries on what she could do something about ? |
| 29 | He so concentrated on his dialogue — I never had to reshoot a scene because Kenny fluffed a line — that he could n't do anything at the same time as he was talking . ’ |
| 30 | So , they could n't do anything in the meantime . |