Example sentences of "[adv] could [not/n't] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh absolutely , yes I 'm not arguing about that , and as I said , heaven forbid that should happen , erm another point I did pick up from one report was that in the eight years war , and you 're quite right , the Iraqis are battle hardened , but the Iranian air force apparently could n't bomb Iraq to any great consequence except for the first few weeks of the conflict . |
| 2 | In Band B , address codes alone could not prevent interference . |
| 3 | Within a couple of days of taking this , she began to weep , and she then became very concerned because she just could not stop crying . |
| 4 | I just could not imagine Robin , who used to throw Verey cartridges onto the anteroom fire behind the Group Captain 's back , falling for this sort of thing . |
| 5 | To the region 's Labour MPs who did support the Bill , the compliments of many ; a conscience brickbat to those ( my own included ) who just could not find time to do so . |
| 6 | She just could not resist rabbits . |
| 7 | Freud 's he just could n't speak Hebrew , he could only speak in Egyptian and so on and so on . |
| 8 | Looking back on the community 's experience of opposition , she reflected ‘ If we had got going earlier , and got support from all the locals , if we had n't waffled for ages , and demonstrated properly , and been more vocal — we had difficulty raising money , we just could n't raise money — we would have made an impact . |
| 9 | It seemed that I just could n't turn desire into reality . |
| 10 | Great run again by Mickey , did ever so well , came inside , knocked a good ball into , unfortunately he just could n't get hold of it and the goalkeeper came out and collected it . |
| 11 | Alternately loving and hating , Leith just could n't get Naylor out of her mind . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm mad because I had the money for them but I just could n't get time to shop with the hours we 've been working . ’ |
| 13 | Sorry , i just could nt let people think green was getting impartial in his old age . |
| 14 | Leeds just could nt keep possession for any time , so were nt building attacks , even the clearances started going out of play . |
| 15 | When plastered and complete , it still could n't keep sound out entirely , as those walls which butt up to the party wall ( flanking walls ) would still carry some of the unwanted noise into your house . |
| 16 | She still could n't see Daak . |
| 17 | One may be amused — though not very — that after living in Italy for forty-five years Max still could not speak Italian , but such insularity is not to be imitated . |
| 18 | The skiing developments in Caimgorm 's attracted only 1.5% skiers from overseas and even if the proposal did go ahead for expansion they still could not draw skiers from Europe . |
| 19 | In the late 1930s , when he still could not persuade engineers that his FM system would work , he proved they were wrong by spending $2 million of his own money on building and running an FM radio station . |
| 20 | Yes , Chair , I , I mean I support the criteria that 's been laid out in five two there , I think it 's very important that we do actually , important that we do actually highlight the issue of low pay , and where it 's occurring , and in , in some way that then prevents companies , the , the unscrupulous type of companies that would come in to exploit that , from actually doing it , since most people would then be aware it , and I think that the last speaker 's just suggested that it 's an extremely cheap way of obtaining masses of information about Shropshire 's erm , earnings levels , and I think that 's very important that we are , and do come to grips with that , and clearly could n't afford officer time to be spent on , on merely collating that all the time . |
| 21 | He also could not visit Spain without recollecting that last romantic horizon , the Spanish Civil War . |
| 22 | ‘ I really could n't disappoint Uncle Willi , ’ she said faintly . |
| 23 | Dick really could n't make head or tail of the place and resorted to believing that he had no personal problems , and that the Centre had little to do with cures , which was true . |
| 24 | He often could not hear questions in the House of Commons and had to have them repeated to him by Margesson , his Chief Whip . |
| 25 | The defence which had been suspect all season became vulnerable and the forwards simply could not score goals , so poor Palace fell out of the bottom of Division Two . |
| 26 | She simply could n't keep house — not that that mattered so much — but she could n't cope at all with the children . |
| 27 | Then , due to the current troubles , they were taken away from them and offered to Gateshead , who agreed to take them but then could not get television coverage , so they went to Germany . |
| 28 | You certainly could n't accuse women chefs of lacking stamina . |
| 29 | John , whose Gospel scheme does not include , except by implication , the story of what the church , equipped with the Holy Spirit , achieved , and therefore could not make room for Pentecost ( as Luke does at the outset of his second volume ) , nevertheless makes the same point with considerable clarity In the first chapter of his Gospel he stresses that the Spirit rests exclusively upon Jesus , the fulfilment of the messianic hopes of the Old Testament for the bearer of the Spirit . |
| 30 | On the other hand , the same music had to serve for six more stanzas — Pisano wrote fresh music for the short final one and therefore could not reflect details of the text . |