Example sentences of "he could not [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could n't continue to be so churlish in the face of Betty 's open-hearted goodwill . |
| 2 | It was something else that was bothering him , something illogical that he could n't explain to the Captain until he had explained it to himself . |
| 3 | He could n't warm to the notion of a Gooseneck-Sunil love affair : the potential for pain seemed too great . |
| 4 | As a result of his lost schooling he could n't return to his previous class , and so was at least a year older than the other boys and girls in the class to which he was now assigned . |
| 5 | He could n't move to another part of the country and start the process over . |
| 6 | He could n't admit to being afraid of a breath of air . |
| 7 | Perhaps he could n't bear to , perhaps it was just that he felt his marriage to be a private affair . |
| 8 | If it was some horrible misunderstanding , he could n't talk to the girl to try to clear it up ; instead , he had to be kept in prison to prevent any possibility of contact . |
| 9 | He says he 's had not nearly enough sex education at school , he could n't talk to his parents about it and boys just do n't speak to their mates when it comes to something so intimate and private . |
| 10 | Obviously he could n't talk to the police , and it would suit his book better if Vecchi was caught by someone outside his own organisation . |
| 11 | That was sometimes too much even for the equally outrageous Orton , who partly envied the relationship Ken had with his mother — he knew he could n't talk to his own parent that way — and was partly disgusted by it , to the point of wanting to change the subject from sexual organs and sexual intercourse to something more inane . |
| 12 | He dumped her unceremoniously — as though he could n't wait to be rid of his burden , she thought . |
| 13 | It 's a pity he could n't stick to something like that cos I mean ex-policemen can get jobs like that no trouble ca n't they ? |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | One of their nephews , they told her , had just got his degree in agronomics , he was going to teach , he could n't afford to farm . |
| 16 | He could n't afford to be spending his time here . |
| 17 | He was a lawyer , so he could n't get to everything . ’ |
| 18 | What if he could n't get to rehearsal next morning ? |
| 19 | Because he was convinced Zack was about to scuttle and run , if he could n't get to Zack alone and unarmed , without a shadow from either the British or American authorities . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Mr Jackson said he was struggling because his wife was ill and he could n't get to London to buy stuff . |
| 21 | because he could n't get to there you see so I said well it 'll have to go now , well we 've got it shifted and it 's thrown away and , and that 's the end of that , so I says now when she does decide to come and she wants to be in here , well I said she 'll just have to carry a mattress in , and that 'll be alright just for her to sleep on |
| 22 | Subsequently he changed his mind , possibly in relation to pressure from outside , possibly in an attempt to make psychoanalysis more acceptable , possibly because he could n't come to terms with the fact himself and he then came round to the point of view that these were fantasised seductions as he called them . |
| 23 | The man dropped the tiny fraction of the cigarette that he could not smoke to the ground , letting the last acrid smoulder of it rise in the air . |
| 24 | He could not admit to his own heart that Surere was involved with the girls ' killings ; though perhaps — the dark thought was there — Huy was afraid to admit such a thing was possible , as he would then , however innocently , have played a part in their deaths . |
| 25 | He genuinely had little concern with making money for its own sake , but he could not fail to be infected by Marjorie 's martyred attitude to their shortage of cash , and he resented being reminded of it by Kegan 's sleekness . |
| 26 | Edward declared he could not continue to be king without the women he loved . |
| 27 | He could not want to be kind , could not love the tarnished and ruined thing Sally-Anne Tunstall was , but she looked at him all the same . |
| 28 | Therefore , he could not return to England , where his duties would force him into communion with those whose company he was forbidden to frequent : |
| 29 | He could not speak to them , though his mouth tried to . |
| 30 | He could not bear to be away from Maura today . |