Example sentences of "they could not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that they could n't easily get them out . |
| 2 | She says it 's all about giving the children an opportunity to play with things they could n't normally play with . |
| 3 | ‘ I mean , they could n't just happen , could they ? |
| 4 | Surely they could n't just let her go at the end of the three years ? |
| 5 | So for things to get better they had to get worse ; the worse they were the better they 'd be in the future ; they could n't even start to get better before they 'd started to go drastically downhill . |
| 6 | I said OK — but when the letter arrived , they could n't even spell my name properly . |
| 7 | She 'll come about , that was about five years ago and and she was talking about the schock and half , half the panel er da did n't even know , they could n't even spell it . |
| 8 | When Bilal Shebib and Samir Medina came to Stoke Mandeville for treatment in 1987 , their severe spinal injuries meant they could n't even sit up . |
| 9 | Yes you will , oh yes you will , I fucking see to that , seeing as they could n't even send me a fucking get well card |
| 10 | They could n't even look me straight in the eye , but they agreed I should withdraw from everything . ’ |
| 11 | And er the diesel pumps were n't on and er there was a couple of guys putting on breathing apparatus and trying to get in to restart them , but I mean by this stage the smoke was so thick they could n't even find where the pumps were . |
| 12 | They could n't even wait half an hour . |
| 13 | ‘ Until then , they could n't even ask for a glass of water or to go to the toilet . |
| 14 | They could n't possibly meet our estimate , they said , since their ENTIRE annual budget for path maintainance in Edinburgh was only £5,000 . |
| 15 | She told him that they could n't possibly stay down here , and that he had to make some effort to escape . |
| 16 | It seemed that the only way I could be sure of making teams in future was to be so far ahead of the opposition that they could n't possibly leave me out . |
| 17 | It 's too far and much too costly and they could n't possibly cover their expenses . |
| 18 | I was convinced that the grass near the fence was long enough to conceal me , so they could n't possibly have spotted me . |
| 19 | Sybil had never even set eyes on Rodney so they could n't possibly suspect him of her murder , now could they ? |
| 20 | I do n't mind the half past nine , half past , but I do feel concerned about those older people , who 've already said they they could n't possibly get for half past nine . |
| 21 | Pity they could n't actually have joined us because I was last there on a Monday night and my four friends and I swelled the numbers beyond double figures . |
| 22 | They could n't half do with a goal now . |
| 23 | No it is n't erm and erm even those who in , in my experience who did get through there was just an occasional er time when they did n't pass that part of it , they , they , they , they could n't quite manage that , the height side frightened them and er they failed , erm so there 's quite a lot of demands on them and I 'm sure that a lot of women could do it and a lot of women if they had the chance would do it or would , if they were willing to do it , but it 's not something that grabs most women , I do n't think it does , I think it 's the physical side that puts them off , and that is what is the problem with the Fire Service , it is a physical job . |
| 24 | Anyone who has travelled the country lanes around Holt , near Wrexham , may well have seen a tractor working that they could n't quite identify . |
| 25 | United found it easy enough to open Wolves up , but they could n't quite finish them off . |
| 26 | They could n't quite work out what we were doing looking for golf clubs in the wood — balls yes , clubs no . |
| 27 | It was very odd casting and they could n't quite work it out . |
| 28 | Tiles were the ro making the tiles was a major operation because erm when they first tried to make the tiles they tried they dug a hole big hole at Rawcliffe and they they tried to make forty thousand tiles , line them all up in the pit and they brought something like forty tonnes of dry wood chippings from the erm saw mills in er forest but they could n't quite get it hot enough so the whole lot had to be thrown away do again . |
| 29 | I know it sounds a bit sick in the head , but it 's not , it 's not really sick … anybody who does daring things , they could n't suddenly stop doing them … |
| 30 | Erm th the general idea is that I 'm actually responding to a request from last years ' student group so that the previous lecturer did pass on to me that the student group had been unhappy that there were too many texts referred to as they could n't necessarily get them from the library and they could n't afford to buy more than one text . |