Example sentences of "[pers pn] could n't [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I 've got myself again I go that last week , oh I could n't move last week ! |
| 2 | ‘ Ultimately I could n't care less what happens , ’ he says . |
| 3 | I could n't care less what 's happened to him . ’ |
| 4 | The pilot thought the size of the gray-green boxes , ‘ seven metres long and one meter wide ’ was familiar , somehow ; but ‘ as long as you do n't open the boxes , you do n't know what you have … it is blessed by the government when it is being loaded , so I could n't care less what it is . ’ |
| 5 | I mean David 's talking about the leaf stem I could n't care less about the leaf stem I 'm with most people I understand that Councillor Barry Jackson 's offered to look after it in his garden cos he likes it and he 's welcome to do that . |
| 6 | I do I could n't care less what you are Iris |
| 7 | when we found his glasses and that and things they were all buried and , and Peter said to me I 've got this of John 's , I brought Jonathan 's , I could n't care less as long as I 've got John you know |
| 8 | I could n't care less about it . |
| 9 | I could n't do much , but my mind was free and clear . |
| 10 | As a teenager , Sonique was an athlete for the North London borough of Haringay , after which she tried working nine to five but ‘ I could n't do that and be as free as I wanted ’ . |
| 11 | I could n't do that at the start . |
| 12 | I was n't too keen on this cheek to cheek business , with men I 'd never seen before and did n't know the names of , but I kept on telling myself not to be standoffish and to relax a bit , but as for jiving — no , I could n't do that . |
| 13 | ‘ I could n't do that . ’ |
| 14 | I wanted to touch her and make her better but I realised I could n't do that . |
| 15 | Oh no , I could n't do that . |
| 16 | I could n't do that . ’ |
| 17 | I could n't do that in Russia because of the long journey . ’ |
| 18 | And there was a funny silence and Dylan said that he 'd bet I could n't do that scream like that with a cigarette in my mouth and I shook off the centuries , stopped staring , smiled a little , noted that he had indeed monumentally screamed with a cigarette in his mouth and went stunned back to my crossword . ’ |
| 19 | I could n't do that on the 500 . |
| 20 | I 'm not into that Angela , I could n't do that ! |
| 21 | No I could n't do that . |
| 22 | ‘ I could n't do that to Stephen , ’ she said , uneasily conscious that Elaine had too high an opinion of her . |
| 23 | Well , I could n't do that , but I painted a watercolour of the churchyard and put him in front of it , and painted that … |
| 24 | I could n't do that properly at first , but Mr Dowson came to show me how , telling me to pull a lot harder . |
| 25 | I could n't do that . |
| 26 | I could n't do that , not that I want to . |
| 27 | ‘ I first investigated the possibility of studying for an occupational health certificate in 1975 , but at that time the only way that this could be achieved was by full-time studying and I could n't do that because of family commitments . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh no , I could n't do that . ’ |
| 29 | I could n't do that , I mean , I had responsibilities and if I had time I 'd remember what they were . |
| 30 | I could n't do that er with the officer who had the shield . |