Example sentences of "could n't [adv] [vb infin] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact you could n't adequately express yourself in English you were just better to shut up . |
| 2 | A lot of them , of course , were so secret that Mr Marr could n't even show them to me . |
| 3 | She could n't even accuse him of laying a finger on her , since she was always fast asleep when he joined her in the large bed , and the twins arrived to wake her up in the morning . |
| 4 | Kate could n't even justify it by saying it was a boy Lizzy loved , whom her daughter had been with for a long time and so sex was a natural progression . |
| 5 | I could n't even manage it at Bury . |
| 6 | His friend 's , but I mean she could n't even remember nothing about it . |
| 7 | So we looked at two areas where we 've erm we were both very weak , erm , and I do n't we could even , we could n't even see it with regards this . |
| 8 | We could n't even bury him from our own home . |
| 9 | You could n't just invent something like that . |
| 10 | But he could n't just leave her at the station . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't worry about me , ’ he 'd said , but then he could n't just leave it at that and so he 'd added , ‘ Will you be all right ? ’ |
| 12 | He could n't just leave it like that . |
| 13 | She could n't just ignore him in his own house and she had the nasty feeling that she would not have been able to ignore him anywhere . |
| 14 | I 'd put them all in an old suitcase and erm , cos I could n't just put them in there I had to have a look , they 're sentimental and that book was in there so I can definitely get you that , but I would n't go up in the loft I 'm afraid , I 'm so scared of creepy crawlies so er , you know , if you , if you want to come back some time when my husband 's here I mean he can tell you more about the wallpaper and decorating , and I 'll get him to get that out . |
| 15 | She hated to be made to think in this way ; but there were some things you had to think of with your mind , when you could n't straightforwardly see them with your hands , to deal with them then and there . |
| 16 | Erm th the general idea is that I 'm actually responding to a request from last years ' student group so that the previous lecturer did pass on to me that the student group had been unhappy that there were too many texts referred to as they could n't necessarily get them from the library and they could n't afford to buy more than one text . |
| 17 | You could n't really manage it on a subaltern 's pay . |
| 18 | ‘ They have n't been involved for quite a while so you could n't really expect them to be picked , ’ said Thorstvedt , who is likely to be Norway 's last line of defence on October 14 . |
| 19 | Well the packets are broken , you could n't really give them as , as presents you know . |
| 20 | you could n't really take him to a tribunal could you , 'cos ya |
| 21 | And the nuclear industry could n't always buy itself into the media . |
| 22 | We could n't often see them from the main road which passed in front of the building because they were forbidden to look out of the windows . |
| 23 | He could n't possibly see her in the darkness , but she still shrank down in the seat — then felt her eyes widen when he stripped off his jacket and started to unbutton his shirt . |
| 24 | Sybil had never even set eyes on Rodney so they could n't possibly suspect him of her murder , now could they ? |