Example sentences of "could n't afford " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't afford the fares into town as well as a reasonable seat for sitting in . |
| 2 | I could n't afford anywhere to hide — what was happening to me ? |
| 3 | I could n't afford the time . |
| 4 | I always really wanted one but the trouble was they were 70 quid a pop , which I certainly could n't afford on a Saturday lad 's money — even the Saturday lad 's money that Malcolm paid . |
| 5 | The need to compete with television , and with the sort of films the Americans were making , meant that producers had to make spectaculars , which they could n't afford to do , or the sort of brave and adventurous pictures that the circuits were reluctant to accommodate . |
| 6 | ‘ When everyone bought things for cash , if you could n't afford something — well , it was tough luck , ’ agrees Simon Gelsthorpe of Bradford Health Authority , who 's worked with a wide range of adult emotional and psychological difficulties ( including chronic addictions ) . |
| 7 | It 's easy to forget that it 's over eight years since Pepsi and Shirlie first sang with Wham ! and Shirlie still laughs at the memories : ‘ When we started out I had one dress and I wore it to every photo session — I could n't afford any more ! ’ |
| 8 | Seattle was 3,500 miles away , and we could n't afford the air fare . |
| 9 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 10 | An if we could n't afford the price of admission , we found other distractions . |
| 11 | He could n't afford to believe that he had ever run like that , with such aching legs and such a flood of strength . |
| 12 | Maybe they had n't got any clothes , and they could n't afford one of the nice rooms , and they did n't belong anywhere , but they had each other and they had Baby to visit each day . |
| 13 | Were they so poor that they could n't afford to pay ? |
| 14 | Zambia was not a squeamish person — could n't afford to be — but there were limits . |
| 15 | He could n't afford another scandal while waiting for trial . |
| 16 | Masha had been fine last night , but we really could n't afford any more dreams or letters . |
| 17 | CHOOSING my words carefully , I asked a top Mercedes-Benz diesel engineer some time ago which diesel he would drive — assuming that he could n't afford a Mercedes . |
| 18 | He payed for the education of children from the families who could n't afford it , and the ablest of the children he sent to university . |
| 19 | So we thought , ‘ We 'll get the National Trust to take it , ’ and we were flabbergasted when we found out that the Trust could n't afford to take it without an endowment . |
| 20 | ‘ I could n't afford the time , even if I had the money , ’ says Robyn . |
| 21 | Admittedly they suffer great pressures on time and space , but the case of my client who had ‘ rescued ’ three large dogs , only to discover he could n't afford to have any of them vaccinated , is surely not an isolated one . |
| 22 | But there were eight in my family , so we could n't afford for me to be a pro — they did n't get paid ! |
| 23 | He had gone on about lofts. people in New York , apparently , lived in lofts , presumably because they could n't afford houses . |
| 24 | They would do a tour and their singles would still be in the warehouse because Red Rhino could n't afford to pay for the pressing and things like that , ’ says Debbie Kaye . |
| 25 | And now she knew that Uncle Knacker did n't know any more than she did , and she was on her own because her parents could n't afford expensive lessons or a top-class pony . |
| 26 | She could n't afford it , and Bernie offered to pay his share . |
| 27 | Old Granny Fordham , who lived in a lonely cottage on the Enderley estate , could n't afford luxuries like butter and eggs , and could n't easily get to the shops in the village , so it would be doing a real service to take Mrs. Grant 's gift to her . |
| 28 | We knew that jobs were not easy to obtain … we could n't afford to risk getting the sack . |
| 29 | He knew that , ultimately , he had to toe the official line because , like any other player , he could n't afford to be put on the dole . ’ |
| 30 | Absenteeism and drop-outs among adults were increasingly common because , as teachers in this school pointed out , either they were too busy working to earn enough to live on , or they could n't afford to buy paper and other materials . |