Example sentences of "[adv] could [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Each contributed much , but they did not often speak to each other , and indeed almost literally could not speak to each other . |
| 2 | All the sadistic , immoral thrills of a million lifetimes put together could not begin to equal what I felt . |
| 3 | Yeah I was really attracted to him but I just could not speak to him , it was awful , and like there used to be awful pauses and you 'd just go er right we 'd better get off with each other again because you ca n't bear the silence , it 's too uncomfortable so you used to , and then you go oh shit better get off with him again , it 's awful , he 's and he used to have such a , no personality at all . |
| 4 | I had been on low-calorie diets and diets out of newspapers , but I just could not stick to them . |
| 5 | It took me about six months to even be able to hear what he 'd done ; I just could n't relate to it because I had so many preconceptions about what I thought it should be . |
| 6 | no I 'm not no when I am I ca n't eat anything , if I was like that I just could n't bear to be even in the same room as anybody who 's eating , so no the urge of chocolate is possibly to do with fat |
| 7 | There were days when you just could n't talk to him , when he stared at you as if what you said made no sense , and then gave you answers you could n't understand . |
| 8 | But to people like me , well we just could n't talk to him any more . ’ |
| 9 | HAVE-A-GO hero Darren Dyer just could n't wait to be a fireman . |
| 10 | Because as I say people were that poor they they knew that they just could n't afford to er to get anything you know . |
| 11 | I did so want to tell you how I felt , but I just … just could n't seem to , somehow . |
| 12 | But she just could n't take to it . |
| 13 | She just could n't take to Anna Beckett at all . |
| 14 | So when I knew I had cancer and was facing death , I still could n't pray to the God I associated with the churches . |
| 15 | He still could n't get to the bottom of it . |
| 16 | I suppose we really could n't afford to . |
| 17 | There was the commander of the Cigognes , Captain Brocard , wounded during the first days of the fighting at Verdun , and relieved of his command the following year — because he simply could not adapt to the new conditions of air warfare the old form of single combat that had brought the Cigognes such renown in the early days . |
| 18 | He simply could not go to school . |
| 19 | Little old ladies who had relished home baking were a dying breed and the younger generation simply could n't relate to them . |
| 20 | He simply could n't respond to the person she had become . |
| 21 | But no , but I ca n't could n't afford to be rude to him , I 've only just joined the choir . |
| 22 | In establishing this Virgin finally hopes to win compensation for the dirty tricks affair and damages awarded here could easily run to one billion dollars . |
| 23 | The gap between American interest rates and those abroad could soon start to narrow . |
| 24 | What imagination anywhere could not respond to the image of strangers galloping hard on a moonswept night towards such high turrets ? |
| 25 | Inwardly she chafed a little that she too could not take to the ice and show this country maid a quicksilver pair of heels . |