Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the captives could not speak the same language , reasoned the slavers , they were unlikely to organize effective opposition . |
| 2 | ( And yet I remember one morning — when confronted by a preliminary plate of very sour , very cold slices of orange I could not stop a few tears trickling miserably down my cheeks — a gruff voice coming from the other end of the table . |
| 3 | Unfortunately he could not do the same at Newcastle in the FA Cup and , although he got leave of absence from school for the match , we were unable to prevent the Geordies from avenging their 1907 defeat . |
| 4 | He found , however , as he loped along , ostensibly to school , that he could not feel the same bitterness that he had done when he first started to write . |
| 5 | In his summing up Lord Griffiths said that if a family had lost its right to priority treatment through intentional homelessness , the parents could not achieve the same result ‘ through the back door ’ by applying in the name of a dependent child . |
| 6 | Hotspur watched the marred profile beside him curiously as they paced side by side , for he was greatly drawn to his prisoner , and could not reconcile the many stories concerning him with this man he had begun to know . |
| 7 | She regretted she could not say the same about his chest and general condition , and explained why in detail . |
| 8 | But he said the incidents were not being linked at this stage and he could not say the same people were responsible for each theft . |
| 9 | When she tried to explain that she would now have to live on five shillings a week , she could not restrain a few tears . |
| 10 | The break between ordinary and scientific knowledge seems to us so clear that these two types of knowledge could not have the same philosophy . |
| 11 | ‘ I never saw one thing she wanted that did not sell , ’ but nonetheless insisted that this undisciplined approach was unacceptable for a customer trying to furnish a house , who might have kept a sample for six weeks only to find she could not reorder the same fabric . |
| 12 | They just could n't give the same level of service . ’ |
| 13 | The wind was only slightly stronger and the reservoir a little choppier , but most of the others were out already and managing fine , so I saw no reason why we could n't do the same . |
| 14 | Aye , and lassies who could n't walk a few hundred yards without getting themselves lost . |
| 15 | We could n't see no more because of the hangars |
| 16 | You probably could n't say the same for Howard Kendall — the Everton manager tried in vain to sign the big fellow from Luton earlier in the season . |
| 17 | Shame the British weather could n't say the same . |
| 18 | Mr. Andrew has always been devoted to Kate , Mr. Mottram , but I could n't say the same about her . |
| 19 | SINGER Paula Abdul , left , lost out when she could n't hit the same key as Frank Sinatra . |
| 20 | Mark you , I said as she was too big , but they said as it could just be the water , as they could n't hear no more than the one heart . |