Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] a good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was told the service was really only for pilots flying unaccompanied , who could not maintain a good lookout whilst otherwise engaged , and that the service applied essentially to commercial operations . |
| 2 | While Adorno confines this category to ‘ serious ’ music , Paddison points out that there seems no reason why it could not include a good deal of avant-garde jazz and such rock groups as Frank Zappa 's Mothers of Invention the Velvet Underground , and — he might have added — some post-punk bands . |
| 3 | He was wearing a grubby trench coat with the collar turned up so I still could not get a good look at him , but there was no mistaking his dimensions . |
| 4 | Therefore he could not claim a good title by raising an estoppel against the true owner . |
| 5 | The SDP did not and could not have a good war . |
| 6 | She could n't use a good friend simply to get herself out of trouble . |
| 7 | But she could n't find a good answer to Karen 's question . |
| 8 | I may not always be able to offer a Danby or a Holmes ( Holmes is available as I write ) , but I should be considerably embarrassed if I could n't find a good view of the Gorge for a departing new graduate or a returning old one . |