Example sentences of "could not [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for a moment he was afraid that the huge grin he could not control was going to stretch his face permanently out of shape . |
| 2 | I had never suspected she had ever loved any man but Simon Ellis and I knew she could not have been referring to him since she had never spoken of him without affection and great kindness . |
| 3 | An initial point is that the LDDC could not have been operating in a more favourable environment . |
| 4 | She could n't have been supplying Russian weapons typewriter unlisted phone numbers — oh were those two Second Secretaries on the No-go-Alone List ? ’ |
| 5 | " She could n't have been talking to Rome , " Seddon said . |
| 6 | Predictably , perhaps , one eagle-eyed visitor to the Royal Photographic Society in Bath , where the sculpture is currently showing , rang up to complain that it was n't accurate , that the bowler could n't have been doing all those things . |
| 7 | The people could n't have been working well enough or my plan was too optimistic . |
| 8 | Old colliers used to say that in the mines sometimes you could hear noises that were not just the noise of settlement or movement but something different , the feeling that someone else that you could n't see was working near you . |