Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something you could not mention before the men , perhaps ? ’ |
| 2 | The Soviet military responded to the demand by noting that troops could not leave before the completion of Soviet forces ' withdrawal from Eastern Europe , partly because of the difficulties involved in rehousing troops . |
| 3 | The CNAA , he explained , would take pressure off the University of London , and if other universities were not prepared to enter the field of external degrees ‘ they could not complain at the creation of the new body ’ . |
| 4 | But he could not complain of the unsuitability of the friendship between his wife and Isobel , and at times it was extremely useful . |
| 5 | However , in Coote v Eastern Gas Board , Byrne , J. decided that regard must be had to the nature of the industry in question , thus the plaintiff , a gas worker , could not complain about the ‘ usual ’ smell of gas . |
| 6 | He gagged on the sourness so that he could not speak into the telephone . |
| 7 | Cynthia could not speak for the sobs that now came from her throat . |
| 8 | She could not cope with lifts , and she could not go into the garden shed in case the door closed upon her . |
| 9 | Fleury would have liked to have gone , too , but both he and Harry could not go at the same time ; someone had to stay behind to fight off the sepoys . |
| 10 | Lachlan was being left in charge of the castle , and Lady Marion could not go to the ceremony , for the baby was near its time . |
| 11 | The letter must have said that she could not go to the Mansion again . |
| 12 | Blanche could not go to the hospital herself . |
| 13 | I could not go to the Hall earlier that day . ’ |
| 14 | Why was it right to train a fellow and you knew , or you felt that , you could not go to the flight commander or the wing commander and say a think this fellow should go down the pits , " or a think we should remuster him to the Army or the Navy " . |
| 15 | He could not go near the lights for the Men would see him ; so he would seek the most darkness — away from the Zoo and over towards the blackness of the Park centre . |
| 16 | She explained to Dexter why she could not talk about the Mills case at work . |
| 17 | Cards could not talk to the divinator . |
| 18 | Those who could stand the pace flourished ; those who could not went to the wall . |
| 19 | When Chaos came he fought as best he could but he saw that the pitiful weapons of the Elves and the peaceful sorceries of the Everqueen could not stand against the might of the dark . |
| 20 | The shattered Empire , long a cauldron of factional strife , could not stand against the tide of Chaos . |
| 21 | I could not distinguish between the nuances of temperature , only the change in light . |
| 22 | Widgery J. 's conclusion that the plaintiffs could not recover under the rule for economic injury alone seems perfectly correct at that time . |
| 23 | But he could not recover from the wound inflicted by the man once so close to him . |
| 24 | But he could not recover from the wound inflicted by the man once so close to him . |
| 25 | In particular it could not cope with the pressure of a growing population . |
| 26 | Coal-tar technology could not cope with the huge expansion in the chemical industry that took place after the Second World War . |
| 27 | If even Alison Kraemer 's perfect manners could not cope with the news , then our marriage must be an intolerable scandal . |
| 28 | Usually the two pilots who are on night duty sleep in the ambulance but the driver and medical orderly who also sleep in it had worked up a terrific ‘ fug ’ — ‘ Imshi ’ Mason and I felt we could not cope with the smell of unwashed feet , etc. , so we dragged the two stretchers out . ’ |
| 29 | A BANK manager killed himself because he could not cope with the worry and pressure of his work in the recession . |
| 30 | In July 1990 , P concluded that he could not cope with the mounting arrears under the mortgage , and his other debts . |