Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] [pers pn] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hebbert and McFall do , Hebbert decided , and he persuaded his partner they could not leave it at that after such a long flog up the mountainside . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't — yes , I could do that , ’ said Caspar , who could not do it at all , but could see that there was no other answer to be given . |
| 3 | But when I later tried to find my way back to the dining-room to finish my meal , which should have been a simple thing to do , I just could not locate it at all . |
| 4 | Maggie 's face flushed hotly and she was glad that Ana could not see her at that moment . |
| 5 | Robert could not understand it at first , but , after he put his ear back to the window , it resolved itself into two syllables : |
| 6 | Often they could not find them at all . |
| 7 | My parents had died when I was a baby , so I could not remember them at all , but quite often I used to visit the churchyard , about a mile from the village , to look at their names on their gravestones . |
| 8 | You could just see them at low water and er that was one of the danger points but I 've never seen ships coming close to Skerrymor at all . |
| 9 | The delicacy of his touch as he stroked her was such that Julia could hardly feel it at all , and yet it aroused in her a longing for him that she had never before experienced . |
| 10 | She could always watch it at nine , though this was not the same . |
| 11 | But I could n't leave it at that . |
| 12 | The registry office could n't marry them at such short notice and they must wait until the following day . |
| 13 | My leg had gone completely to sleep and I could n't feel it at all , but I managed to hobble to the door , collecting fourpence out of my wallet , and down the stairs to the first landing where the telephone was . |
| 14 | Derby winner Dr Devious also raced freely before weakening into 10th and jockey Chris McCarron , who replaced regular rider John Reid , reported afterwards : ‘ I could n't control him at all . ’ |
| 15 | She said she 's absolutely brilliant she said you could n't fault her at all . |
| 16 | I could n't stand chemistry anyway , could n't understand it at all , the atoms and the neutrons and all that . |
| 17 | She looked sad and Jenna could n't understand it at all . |
| 18 | so , you know , I looked under the bonnet , I could n't understand it at all tt , er , so I eventually got a lift and got a ride down into Malham and er , went in the telephone box there |
| 19 | It bothered him to let her go like this , but she 'd insisted ; for a while he could n't see her at all , until she reached the skyline and stopped for a moment . |
| 20 | I wriggled until I could peer over the edge into the wet depths below and I could n't see him at all . |
| 21 | He said , ‘ There was such a crowd round the chap on the table I could n't see him at first . |
| 22 | Edge on , you could n't see it at all . |
| 23 | There is a rather improbable story that , when Captain cook first sailed into Botany Bay , Australia , the size of his ship was so far beyond anything that the local aborigines had ever seen that they could n't see it at all . |
| 24 | The driver could n't find him at first as only the top of his helmet was visible . |
| 25 | I suspected about his thieving , but I could n't prove it at that stage . |
| 26 | She could n't turn it at first ; she fumbled and wrenched and then made herself try again , without forcing . |
| 27 | No , she could n't help them at all . |
| 28 | ‘ Could n't help it at first , but we 've become friends . |
| 29 | She could n't remember it at all . |
| 30 | Oh , no I put a six where a five should be , in my pin number , that 's all I did , but I just , I just stood there and my mind just completely went blank , I could n't remember it at all . |