Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [not/n't] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sorry I could n't get some basic staples up at the house for your arrival . |
| 2 | ‘ Even I could n't see some of them last week . |
| 3 | And just cos we could n't do some questions on the paper she says , Oh you 're not good enough then you should 've learnt it better . |
| 4 | It would be hard to see how communication could take place if we could not take some sort of mutually shared knowledge for granted , if every discourse had to begin from scratch . |
| 5 | The first settlers , displaced from central Europe by forces unknown , probably because they could n't pay some Mesolithic Poll Tax , trekked north with their women and children , building circular huts amidst sea-shore sand dunes . |
| 6 | Every part of every garment they wore was examined ; and finally , they each had to wash their hands in some special , stinging solution to ensure that they could not administer some dreadful poison to him when they shook hands . |
| 7 | He wanted certain scenes spelled out ; he could not understand some of the subtleties . |