Example sentences of "could not [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | He knew that he still whistled sometimes , but the bogeyman could not scare him any more . |
| 4 | She could not stand it another minute . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | However often I lived through the moment , and I had just lived through it so vividly that the palms of my hands were sweating and my heart thumping , I could not make it last beyond that point . |
| 7 | But you could not blame it all on the place or on the drugs scene . |
| 8 | She could not tell him about Havvie ; neither could she speak the lie to him , not to Dr Neil , but she could not tell him the truth , for that would mean telling him who she was , and she could not tell him that , not here , not now ; it would spoil everything between them if he knew that she was the spoiled and pampered American Princess . |
| 9 | " 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 " . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Alexander asked if the doctor knew what that something was , but he could not give him any answer . |
| 13 | I had hoped that on my twenty-first birthday I would discover more about my future , but Mr Jaggers explained that he could not give me any more information , except that from now on I would have five hundred pounds a year to spend as I liked . |
| 14 | I could sense the steep drop to my left , though I could not see it due to the trees and thick foliage that lined the roadside . |
| 15 | The walls of the cottage were thick enough to shut out the worst sounds of the storm 's buffeting , and even the creaking of doors and rattling of windows could not keep me awake for long . |
| 16 | ‘ These bones show that he hid the hound here , but he could not keep it quiet , so people heard its cries . |
| 17 | You could not help them all . |
| 18 | Tom Dreaper could not convince him that racing was a business to be taken seriously , and Foinavon had been sold for 2,000 guineas . |
| 19 | Susan broke off and leaned back , looking so tired that Breeze could not ask her any of the things she naturally wanted to know , about their father 's last weeks of life . |
| 20 | Following a short interview about the further offence , the officer whom he had requested to see told him that he could not ask him any questions about the early offence for which he had already been charged but said that he could make a statement if he wished . |
| 21 | While she did not like Matthew and never would , she could not wish him ill . |
| 22 | With Alice , she could not get it right . |
| 23 | I loved him at the beginning and could not hate him later — even when he was agonizing everyone . |
| 24 | Barney might experience flashes of impatience and anger , say and do things he would later regret , but she could not believe him capable of the blind , destructive hatred that had driven the knife into Angy 's throat . |
| 25 | Further , employers could not have it both ways ; if they sought summary conviction before justices of the peace , they could hardly have had penalties of a harshness imposable only by the courts . |
| 26 | You could n't had it worst ! |
| 27 | That she would you know throw him out so that she could just could n't tolerate him any more . |
| 28 | So they could n't leave them all standing outside . |
| 29 | She could n't leave them any money because all she had was an annuity that would come to an end when she died , but Mister Johnny 's got a little bit that his parents left him and Hepzibah makes some from the poultry , so they should have just enough . |
| 30 | Could n't leave it any later . ’ |