Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] [pron] from the " in BNC.

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1 She walked alone in the silence , hearing her own muted footfalls like echoes of past or future , she could not distinguish one from the other .
2 My source tells me : ‘ The firemen were very helpful and attempted to remove the offending smoke sensor but could not isolate it from the system so the demonstration continued with shorter cooking times and lower temperatures to reduce the flames .
3 Even the after effects could not keep him from the final .
4 I wanted a space blanket even more , but I could not take anything from the Land Rover for myself until the next settlement .
5 You could n't tell it from the real thing . ’
6 His friends at the time knew better , especially the seemingly laid-back J Mascis , who could n't eject him from the group on a face-to-face basis .
7 You could n't fetch them from the pool .
8 He could n't distinguish her from the darkness , but any lingering doubt that she might belong to the dream from which he 'd risen was dispatched as her hand went from his mouth to his bare chest .
9 And Miguelito could n't see him from the bank .
10 He just hoped they could n't see it from the stalls .
11 ‘ If they were on the road we could n't hear them from the house , and I truly doubt that anyone would go home via the graveyard and the woods .
12 The sign was peeling and you could n't read it from the other side of the square but the Three Towns knew who Whalbys ' were without that .
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