Example sentences of "who could not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was extremely harsh on the innocent purchaser who bought goods in good faith from a mercantile agent and who could not reasonably have suspected that anything was wrong . |
| 2 | ‘ We feel that to fund people who could not otherwise go to court is a very correct use of taxpayers ’ money . |
| 3 | ‘ We feel that to fund people who could not otherwise go to court is a very correct use of taxpayers ’ money' |
| 4 | But unions were in fact composed of and certainly led by such men , though the bourgeois mythology saw them as mobs of the stupid and misled , instigated by agitators who could not otherwise have earned a comfortable living . |
| 5 | The two stallions who could not even do the test had previously shown themselves to be intelligent by their rapid ability to learn when they were broken in . |
| 6 | Cellars sprouting fungus from every dripping crevice , where those who could not even afford a place on an upstairs mattress paid a penny to sleep standing up like horses , leaning against a rope which would be simply untied the next morning when the landlord considered they had slept long enough . |
| 7 | My anorak served as armour in more than the literal sense : it protected me , as anorexia protected me , from the confusing impingements of reality as defined by others at home or at school , and who could not even agree among themselves , on my behalf . |
| 8 | To the snobbish traveller coach tours are a subject of derision , but since the inter-war period when coach touring really took off , thousands of people who could not normally afford to travel have seen countries other than their own through the comparative cheapness of coach travel . |
| 9 | As a sex , women joined other culturally disenfranchised groups who could not easily participate in high culture . |
| 10 | Feather-headed serving girls who could not possibly hope to go unsuspected did steal from their mistresses . |
| 11 | Those who accepted his commandments were to be judged in punctilious accordance with the law , whereas the ignorant savage in the darkened jungle who could not possibly have known the light would be treated with gentleness and given a second chance . |
| 12 | I had been trying to negotiate the Friday lunch-time run , which was the most lucrative , office-party wise , as ER was always on the lookout for reliable drivers who could not only deliver their people but hang around and pick them up . |
| 13 | Gradually trust developed and themes emerged : sadness , ‘ A grief with no end ’ ; anger , ‘ Why did it happen to me ? ’ ; and frustration with the professionals who could not fully understand their plight . |
| 14 | It was important that they should all be seen to be doing this in a town as a matter of agreed policy , to present a common front to prospective buyers who could not therefore accuse a particular tradesman of unfairly , unjustly discrediting him as a personal vendetta . |
| 15 | Colonel Fergusson , who could not quite bear to inform his daughter that the human family sprang from the same impulse which animated a beetle striking its head against the walls of its box , replied that in his view the Fergussons were a happy accident . |
| 16 | ‘ A lot of good any of that did when we had a captain who could n't fucking hack it , did n't have the guts to admit it , and had to send good men into a fucking killing ground to prove how fucking brave he really was . ’ |
| 17 | How could Ma look like that at someone who could n't even speak English ? |
| 18 | ‘ Siege ’ , in the front-page headline , had been misspelt as ‘ seige ’ , which caused Pilger opponents to fire back the ‘ Moron Sunday ’ jibe with racist jokes about stupid Ozzies who could n't even spell . |
| 19 | The woman had bought the ponies for her grandchildren ( who could n't even ride ) . |
| 20 | ( Wilde was introduced to him by his mother , a librarian , who could n't possibly have anticipated the effect and , apparently , never regretted it even in the seemingly hopeless pre-Smith days of unemployment and complete lack of desire to become gainfully employed . ) |
| 21 | ‘ He did n't even went , ’ explained Umberto , who could n't ever have imagined Señor Gracias being so angry about anything . |
| 22 | ‘ Friends are always telling me to put my prices up , but I enjoy painting people , like bishops , who could n't necessarily afford very much more , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Apparently he was involved in an accident at work a few days ago , went to his local casualty department who could n't actually detect any break and treated it as a severe sprain . ’ |
| 24 | She expressed her condolences briefly and tactfully , in marked contrast to some of those present , who could n't quite bring themselves to approach the grieving widow but were quite prepared to quiz me at length about the details of Dennis 's last hours . |
| 25 | ‘ She was an earth-mother type who could n't quite believe in all her success . |
| 26 | Somebody crossed in from the right , Lukic blocked a shot from Sheron , but the ball fell at the feet of Flitcroft who could n't really miss . |
| 27 | Had n't she had enough of men for the moment , without being stupid enough to allow herself the folly of being attracted to a man who could n't basically give a damn whether she existed or not ? |