Example sentences of "they could not [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could n't talk to me . |
| 2 | It would be especially bad for the old folk who ca n't walk very far — they could n't walk to a bus stop outside the estate could they ? |
| 3 | ‘ They enacted his lifestyle , hiding away on their own and having breakdowns over it just because they could n't relate to people ! ’ |
| 4 | They could n't go to central personnel ? |
| 5 | But even they could n't dance to the music . |
| 6 | They could n't get to the top ; there were too many cars . |
| 7 | ‘ Some of our customers are OAPs without cars , and with a pretty unreliable bus service they could n't get to Alton easily , ’ Mrs. Read said . |
| 8 | They could n't come to a decision so they put it to the vote when — as the book put it — a pair of bearded anarchists , one with flame red hair , appeared out of nowhere and took their decision for them , smashing down the gates with sledgehammers . |
| 9 | Still , she liked one or two of the collective , Xanthe had put some money in ( actually five hundred pounds , a fair whack ) when Miranda had asked her to , so she felt bound to give the paper some support in kind , and the office was fun — she liked pitching in with headings , sidebars , suggested stories , and pasting up till the small hours , with the help of ciggies and carafe wine ; the sex gossip was the best in town , which made up for the coffee ( though they could afford dope , they could n't rise to real coffee , and had at one time even resorted to the bitter brown syrup Camp , with the turbaned lascar on the label ) . |
| 10 | It also shows that , when Russian enterprises reacted to the reforms by jacking up prices and withholding output , they were not doing so because they could not adapt to the bewildering change around them ; they were reacting to the incentives they faced , which said that goods were stores of value while money was not . |
| 11 | Because they could not stand to be in the company of his wife , they rarely saw him . |
| 12 | They could not refer to anything else . |
| 13 | Now they say that even when they get a new manager , they could not return to the traditional pattern of advice workers advising and the manager doing the rest . |
| 14 | Other prisoners said that in Keraterm — a notorious PoW camp which they dubbed Auschwitz — prisoners were crippled by having the ligaments in a knee cut out and tied in a knot so they could not return to the fighting . |
| 15 | Having decided that Rome had to be treated as a member of the civilized community of the Greek world they could not apply to the study of Roman life those methods which they used , very competently , to describe barbarians . |
| 16 | and could report upon them in their own ethical statements , but they could not object to my ethical statements as I meant them , if I have the relevant feelings . |