Example sentences of "could not [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alice thought she could not leave her only child , her baby daughter , that she might never see again , without holding her once more , without at least giving her a last kiss . |
| 2 | She asked him why he could not leave her alone , in view of what the other man had already done to her , but he turned off the lights and told her to undress . |
| 3 | ‘ Good God , there was a time I saw him — still but a child , to be sure — playing his fingers in her hair with such warmth and love in his face , such concentrated attention , as if it so fascinated him he could not leave it alone . |
| 4 | Tired to the point where she felt that her eyes might fall out of their sockets , Julia could not repress her instinctive relief at the prospect of a day 's rest and Mrs Wallington saw it . |
| 5 | Feeling that she could not move her left arm or leg , she sat down on the stairs . |
| 6 | In financial difficulties , the Jesuits could not re-establish their educational system in 1814 . |
| 7 | She stalwartly refused to take any drugs , once again arguing that she could not hold herself responsible if the baby were born deformed . |
| 8 | She knew she was being baited , and yet she could not stop her shocked reply . |
| 9 | While the anti-modernist purge put this process back a generation , it could not stop it re-emerging , especially in the most advanced areas of Catholic culture in northern Europe . |
| 10 | He went very pale , and could not stop his whole body trembling . |
| 11 | Authoritarian , too : he was sacked as manager of Leeds United , then Britain 's best team , after just 44 days because the players could not bear his unorthodox methods . |
| 12 | He thought she could not bear his changed appearance . |
| 13 | We could not reproduce our human race if it were . |
| 14 | At a separate gathering of councillors , a woman asked why Mrs Thatcher could not dismantle her Eastern equivalent of the Berlin Wall . |
| 15 | As the years progressed and the girls grew from babyhood to childhood and on into girlhood and womanhood , Bertha Cohen could not prevent her early hopes from first wilting and then withering : what she had got were two daughters who were replicas , not of herself , but of her husband . |
| 16 | He could not make himself bankrupt . |
| 17 | She could not forget his betraying , rejecting face . |
| 18 | Fen held her a little away from him , his hand going under her chin so that she could not hide her tear-streaked face . |
| 19 | Her imagined crime was something she could not tell her beloved and admired brother , and without that there had been nobody at all . |
| 20 | " He was convinced " , wrote Tupper , " that the German man-in-the-street was participating in this senseless and savage struggle because the Prussian system forced him to ; the ordinary subject of the Kaiser might be misled into believing his cause just — but he could not conceive it possible that the German sailormen who had been part of our Merchant Service could have anything but hatred for this catastrophe " . |
| 21 | But a Conservative spokeswoman denied a Guardian claim that the party could not clear its estimated £14m deficit , and now faced bankruptcy . |
| 22 | So long as an apparatchik continued to be invited to join the Ceauşescus at play , even the ceaseless rotation of offices could not disguise his continuing status as one of the leaders . |
| 23 | IN spite of his determined flippancy and his furious pursuit of the passing attraction , Minton could not disguise his underlying seriousness nor the depth of his cultivation . |
| 24 | It was an order — a rare thing from Therese — and Flavia could not refuse it short of gross discourtesy in public to an older woman and a friend . |
| 25 | Viktor Gerashchenko , chairman of USSR Gosbank ( the Soviet central bank ) , called upon the EBRD to lift its restrictions on Soviet borrowing , which stipulated that the total volume of Soviet credits could not exceed its paid-in capital in the first three years . |
| 26 | The Fortress , N620L , suffered a gear extension malfunction during an airborne sortie and could not extend its right main wheel . |
| 27 | Peggy van Praagh told me that , even so early , de Valois had said to her ‘ I think he 'll make a choreographer ’ , but she was already trying out several other aspirants , so could not give him immediate chances . |
| 28 | But he could not watch her terrible despairs without participating in them ; increasingly , he found he was as paralysed by them as she was herself . |
| 29 | It could not control its folding legs , and Nails helped it , holding its backside up while it propped up its front end . |
| 30 | Arranging strings of symbols in the computer tanks at the school , Chesarynth could not ignore her hurt . |