Example sentences of "could not [vb infin] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt can exist of his Anglophilia , yet he now says that when he heard McQueen tell the story of the ‘ 45 , ‘ I could not refrain from tears , ’ and qualifies his response by discussing a set of feelings not a million miles from sentimentality ; ‘ The very Highland names , or the sound of a bagpipe , will stir my blood , and fill me with a mixture of melancholy and respect for courage ; with pity for an unfortunate and superstitious regard for antiquity , and thoughtless inclination for war ; in short , with a crowd of sensations with which sober rationality has nothing to do . ’ |
| 2 | It was held that a normal examination would have involved looking inside and that they could not complain of defects in the glue which an inspection inside would have revealed . |
| 3 | One could not speak of trenches ; they no longer existed . |
| 4 | I told him that I could not go on behalf of any party , but that I would go on behalf of the government if he came to power , since I knew the situation and could be of some help . |
| 5 | She could not go to Adamus . |
| 6 | He simply could not go to school . |
| 7 | Robert Carnwath feared that the Act was so confused that we could not go to court with a realistic chance of winning . |
| 8 | He did not know how to tell her that he was very , very sorry for being small , and for snivelling , and for ruining her life so that she could not go to America to be a film-star . |
| 9 | What did emerge though was a personable and seemingly deeply caring young man , claiming not to understand why sportsmen could not go to South Africa but could go to India , which imported South African gold . |
| 10 | The doctrine of original sin and baptismal regeneration meant that an unbaptised infant could not go to heaven . |
| 11 | Then she realized that the older woman could not go without Joe to transport her , and she wondered what in earth she was to do . |
| 12 | I could not go inside B.P. , as I no longer had a security pass . |
| 13 | What we would need to do is establish about Brown 's mental event and Green 's mental event that if either man also had the other 's experience , he could not distinguish in content between the two events . |
| 14 | Other examples show however that the person of which the infinitive event is predicated is not always the speaker : ( 4 ) … but he was differently designed , full of desires and aspirations , itching at the fingers , lusting with the eyes , whom the whole variegated world could not satisfy with aspects . |
| 15 | In only 13 days , Nijinsky 's shattered nerves could not recover in time for the Champion Stakes . |
| 16 | Meanwhile France , the UK , Spain , Ireland and Luxembourg all claimed their new recycling industries could not cope with exports caused by German legislation . |
| 17 | Although he published much of Herbert Read , he told me that he could not cope with Read 's numerous books on Art . |
| 18 | In addition , the hospital 's psychiatric unit could not cope with bed blocking : occupancy often reaches 90% in spring and autumn , leaving inadequate space for emergency admissions . |
| 19 | This was due to the impossibility of conveying such goods between the two cities at a time when the railways could not cope with grain supplies coming into Saratov . |
| 20 | It was crude , slow , and could not cope with variations in speech . |
| 21 | Girl who dies ‘ could not cope with sex ’ |
| 22 | She could not cope with lifts , and she could not go into the garden shed in case the door closed upon her . |
| 23 | Admin Clerk burst into tears , could not cope with situation . |
| 24 | members of her class , could not cope with displays of emotion . |
| 25 | If the school felt it could not cope with Balbinder then maybe he would be better in a more sympathetic environment . |
| 26 | The same problem could not arise in Germany , according to Vogts , because of the ‘ wonderful relationship ’ which exists between the Football Federation and those who look after the national team . |
| 27 | He said Wellcome could not benefit from tax breaks enjoyed by companies that had set up manufacturing facilities in Puerto Rico . |
| 28 | I must be free and stand as a Conservative ; I could not serve under L.G. again . |
| 29 | In a sharply critical personal statement in the House of Commons on Nov. 13 he said that the so-called Madrid conditions for UK entry into the ERM , agreed by the European Council in June 1989 [ see pp. 36740-41 ] , had come into existence only after he and the then Chancellor of the Exchequer , Nigel Lawson , had made it clear that they could not continue in office unless a specific commitment to join the ERM was made , and he accused the Prime Minister of increasingly risking leading herself and others astray in matters of substance as well as of style . |
| 30 | It would do this because under the plan Muslim and Croat forces could not move into areas conquered by the Serbs when Serb forces withdrew ; UN forces would replace the retreating Serbs . |