Example sentences of "you could not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps you could not even see the windows of the School from where he was . |
| 2 | How did you apply pressure to a man you could not even find ? |
| 3 | You could not just say , Christ will help you bear it . |
| 4 | ‘ You could not simply go and leave Ana . ’ |
| 5 | You could not properly take account of my experience of separatism without acknowledging my feelings of being swept away by this sort of fervour . |
| 6 | You could not really beat a Human 's skin . |
| 7 | Godfrey Carey , for the prosecution , told the jury that the young woman had ‘ only taken a lift from someone in whose hands you could not really expect to be more safe — an officer in uniform ’ . |
| 8 | ( v ) gave money or goods or services to the addict in your life when you could not really afford to part with these things . |
| 9 | Enter our simple competition and you could not only find yourself with the answer to all your bedroom storage needs , but also regain an extra , usable room . |
| 10 | If you had SUPERFILE you could not only produce MailSorted address labels for all those people , but you could do much subtler selections as well — all in a few minutes and at the press of a few keys . |
| 11 | In the matter of these smaller " possessions " , you might have thought that he would have let you get away with the things which you could not possibly do without , a set of fish-knives , for example , which had been a wedding present , or a " sketch of the Himalayas as seen from Darjeeling . |
| 12 | She knew you could not possibly manage it all on your own . |
| 13 | For example , we would often go on expeditions to Hay-on-Wye looking for French , nineteenth-century pattern books but if you found any yourself you could not possibly claim originality . |
| 14 | You could not be afraid of it , you could not possibly fear something so delicate and so insubstantial . |
| 15 | You could not always tell , of course , and today he looked smart enough in a navy-blue suit and highly polished black shoes , his hair well flattened and combed down . |
| 16 | Culdub Oakapple opened his mouth to say that acclaim was all very well in its way , but they had been hoping for something a bit more financial than that , but the two Gnomes on each side of him trod on his foot to stop him , because you could not always trust the Oakapple to be tactful . |
| 17 | A voice crying out a message which you could not always understand or believe in , but which was important . |
| 18 | Well , it seemed as if as soon as my back was turned Mrs Carrow went off down there , even though you could n't normally get her to go no further than the garden gate , like I said . ’ |
| 19 | She hated to be made to think in this way ; but there were some things you had to think of with your mind , when you could n't straightforwardly see them with your hands , to deal with them then and there . |
| 20 | In fact you could n't adequately express yourself in English you were just better to shut up . |
| 21 | You could n't simply ignore the fact that he had sentenced you to death , but it was important to let him know that you were n't rattled . |
| 22 | But you could n't fucking move at that . |
| 23 | Er , particularly since it was only half right , or you could n't exactly tell which half , not very clearly , so if it 's half by Freud , and er , it was a book erm , on erm , a controversial figure arguing over very controversial pieces , and I think the psychoanalytic study did n't want to have anything to do with it , and er , er , one of the reviews of the psychoanalytic journal that said that this is the kind of book that gets psychoanalysis a bad name . |
| 24 | Mr Masters was quite clear that he had first seen the blue BMW late on the Saturday evening , ten days before , pointing out that , while you could n't exactly complain , it had made access to his own forecourt space a little difficult , or at least when there was already another car on the forecourt , which there mostly was , that being Mrs Masters 's runabout . |
| 25 | On your own you could n't even protect innocent children left in your care from the Fascist thugs . |
| 26 | Peasley said , ‘ you could n't even spot the ball . ’ |
| 27 | The ground pigeons will laugh themselves sick when I tell them you could n't even break your own bones — you 've broken enough of theirs ! " |
| 28 | Well you could have stuck , you know , seven or eight years of age you could n't even do it then in case it hurt the kid 's mother or something like that , or whatever it was . |
| 29 | ‘ Why , you could n't even kick that . ’ |
| 30 | Sometimes they would stroll under the leafy canopies of the Mardyke , where the river was not a river at all but a stream — his father used to say that you could n't even call it a branch of the Lee , perhaps a twig at best — often dried-up in summer and so narrow that he could nearly have jumped across it if he had been allowed ; at other times their route would take them down the Marina where the river was a broad rink-like expanse that copied in shimmering reflections the haughty hills of Montenotte drawing themselves up from its other side . |