Example sentences of "could n't [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could n't even eat with people she did n't like , and as for sleeping with anyone — unless she was wildly in love or pissed out of her mind she could n't do it . |
| 2 | I could n't even sing in church . ’ |
| 3 | I could n't even sing in church . |
| 4 | I could n't even get up Plumpton Street so I came up Fitzclarence but there were fires and damage there too . ’ |
| 5 | When he was at school , but he used to go home for the Christmas holidays and nobody saw him again till about March cos he was , he could n't even get to Rothbury he was snowed in . |
| 6 | My mind was so wrapped round with skeins of my own distant past that I could n't immediately come to grips with the demands of the present . |
| 7 | Erm however absolute egalitarianism showed that it could n't actually work in practice because there was n't they underestimated the amount of land which , that could be redistributed and you had leftist and rightist deviations where which meant that how that industry and commerce was being threatened and landlords were just being indiscriminately killed . |
| 8 | We could n't really fail at home , not with this support . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 've never been into that ‘ I wandered lonely as a cloud ’ type poetry , could n't really get to grips with it . |
| 10 | One area in which the CEGB could n't always rely on support was the media . |
| 11 | ‘ Raymond 's family could n't quite come to terms with eating something sweet at the start of a meal , ’ said Ilsa , laughing . |
| 12 | You 've talked about fairly large distances , distances that you could n't possibly measure with tape measures and using normal methods of measurement , how on earth do you know these distances are the kind you describe ? |
| 13 | At last she had managed to persuade Miss Taylor that she could n't possibly stay for lunch , that she and Fen planned to picnic while he worked . |
| 14 | One died recently , but she could n't ever come to terms with the fact that her house had been burgled , and that the er , that some of her most valued contents had been taken . |