Example sentences of "could n't [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't stand me 'ome gettin' tore ter pieces , an' they 're so smelly , ’ she moaned . |
| 2 | I could n't send her away thinking I could be so heartless and horrible , but I also knew that I was n't going to go home that weekend ; I 'd find an excuse . |
| 3 | I 've got everything right , actually what I did and I could n't give you , I have n't got a clue , trigonometry , well I could n't tell you how to do it , I should |
| 4 | She 'll hold off as long as she can ; we wo n't get much of a view , and they are saying shore batteries could n't do her much damage . |
| 5 | I could n't understand him really saying that . |
| 6 | Though I could n't understand you not having said anything , knowing who I was . |
| 7 | That was the trouble with Mrs Flaherty , you could n't trust her not to say the wrong thing in company , that was one of the reasons why she was the Wrong Element . |
| 8 | Irene had never been demonstrative ; Juliet could n't recall her ever saying she loved her . |
| 9 | In his other hand a grenade with the pin removed so he could n't put it down to free himself from the handcuffs , and so from the chair , and so from the room . |
| 10 | I think it was when he come back , I did n't wait , I just could n't see I just see , you know . |
| 11 | I then went to the Grosvenor Hotel where they said Frank was , but still could n't find him so returned to the BAAB . |
| 12 | I could n't remember her ever having been any different , and even Lili could n't have known her as a young woman , for Syl 's mother was old enough to have been his grandmother . |
| 13 | When I was told why he could n't play I just cried even more . |
| 14 | I just could n't believe you really felt anything . |
| 15 | My youngest girl has just been operated on and I could n't believe she only had two stitches . |