Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [vb infin] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The desire of the Cubists to keep closely in touch with visual reality explains Picasso 's uneasiness about his Cadaquès paintings : clearly he could not go back to his earlier , more laborious methods of dealing with form , and yet at a single stroke he had carried the new technique suggested in the work of Braque to something very near complete abstraction . |
| 2 | Always , though , whether immediately or eventually , she would acquiesce , and I resented her acquiescence , not only because of its consequences for myself , but because I did n't understand why she , an adult , would not or could not stand up to him . |
| 3 | In a crash , you could not hold on to your baby , or she might be crushed between you and the dashboard or seat . |
| 4 | Sachin Tendulkar moved quickly on to 19 at which stage the Indian was twice put down , first by Mark Nicholas at short cover and then by David Gower who could not hold on to a hot left-handed chance at second slip , the unlucky bowler on both occasions being Connor . |
| 5 | However , for the third time this season , Wantage could not hold on to a lead given them in the last five minutes , and allowed Andy Martin to shoot home for the equaliser for Bicester . |
| 6 | He helped the girl down very deliberately — well aware of Burkett 's calculating and approving regard — and as his fingers pressed on that tensile waist , as her free breasts brushed his over-layered chest , as her thighs carelessly kissed his own , he saw a break in the tight-capped cloud of his misery : but he could not reach out to it . |
| 7 | They were tired and ill and they could not walk up to the plateau . |
| 8 | I commented to Miklós that I had little hope of the New World solving the problems of the Old when it could not face up to its own difficulties . |
| 9 | The shapechanger could not face up to his failure ; with only five khthons left there would be no mass production of the drug . |
| 10 | I ’ ) — could not live up to the high expectations created by German propaganda . |
| 11 | It was he who had to listen to how the clients could never get through on the telephone , how they were chased by debt collectors even when they had paid , how they could not find up to the minute share prices , etc . |
| 12 | Only the suspicion that he had something important to say and could not work around to saying it kept her out there with him . |
| 13 | He was crazily frightened and awfully ashamed , so that , when he heard voices , men speak outside the cubicle , he could not yell out to be seen this way . |
| 14 | Apologies to readers who could not get through to our hotline on Friday morning . |
| 15 | The day after we tried to telephone from the post office but could not get through to Alassio . |
| 16 | When I came out of the service I bought a Fender , but I just could n't hold on to it ; it was too small and the weight was wrong . |
| 17 | Patrick was nearly twenty now , and she could n't hold on to him forever , she realized that . |
| 18 | For the thirty seconds or so that the video lasted , John was alive , but I could n't hold on to it for any longer than that . |
| 19 | Jessamy was aware of that thought drifting into her head , but she could n't hold on to it , and it drifted out again . |
| 20 | After a little while , Oliver was so cold that he could n't hold on to the banisters any more . |
| 21 | Dana could n't stand up to him for a moment . ’ |
| 22 | And their conclusion is , he could n't stand up to , to Lloyd George in and the reason was these were strong , erm , male leaders , and Wilson , when it came to being with men , er , was weak , and the question asked is , why was he weak in dealing with men ? |
| 23 | He was trying to undermine her self-confidence , make her believe she could n't stand up to the exigencies of canal life . |
| 24 | But it would need a sixty percent vote on the council , and once they 'd do made the switch , they could n't switch back to a system by thirds for ten years . |
| 25 | So she could n't go out to work cos she 'd got young girls to bring up so they went to the social and the social turned round and said to them before we give you any money you 've got ta spend all this bloody redundancy you 've got ta have used all your savings , including the kids savings , and you 've got ta have nothing ! |
| 26 | And that would be one more bar we could n't go back to . |
| 27 | Two days later they called me back and said that I could n't go back to Jamaica , but offered me a place in the group going to Thailand , which was leaving in February . |
| 28 | You could n't go back to the time when the great art critics like Bernard Berenson and Herbert Read reigned supreme , even if you wanted to . |
| 29 | I could n't back to , like I always used to have two erm but oh I could n't go back to that ! |
| 30 | He says that the main priority was to ensure that the travellers could n't group up to stage a huge festival . |