Example sentences of "could not [vb infin] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sonar made interesting contacts but could not identify them directly , while passive underwater photography ( photographing whatever passes a given spot ) had the potential to reveal essential detail but could not be expected to make contact without a much sounder basis for deploying the cameras . |
| 2 | He could not leave her here even had he the courage to go up into that vast nothingness above … |
| 3 | However , he knew he could not leave her now . |
| 4 | I could not leave him now . |
| 5 | But having got so far , she could not leave it there . |
| 6 | Although ‘ t is easy to see that he could not leave you behind , nor take his eyes off you for a moment . |
| 7 | As she ran along the track to the road , she had an eerie sense that she was acting out something she had done before , but she could not pin it down until she reached the road and turned right , towards the village . |
| 8 | and I 've had that taken out because I could n't , I just could not stand it especially in hot weather ! |
| 9 | It followed that Northumberland 's men were in a sense Gloucester 's men , even though the duke could not retain them directly . |
| 10 | It followed that Northumberland 's men were in a sense Gloucester 's men , even though the duke could not retain them directly . |
| 11 | She rolled the liquefying spinach into her cheek she could not spit it out . |
| 12 | She dried the udder and pulled the three-legged stool across , jamming the first bucket between her knees as she sat down , so that Florence could not kick it over . |
| 13 | She could not bind herself personally , with the result that she could not be made a bankrupt , unless she was carrying on a trade . |
| 14 | They could not hold him now , they could only hope to come off with their lives and unidentified . |
| 15 | She honestly could not hold him off alone . |
| 16 | But she could not hold him off ! |
| 17 | Clive spilled some of the powder as he heaped it in the spoon , and could not hold it steady over his lighter flame , but finally he got it liquefied . |
| 18 | She could not hold it back . |
| 19 | Part of its working was the recognition of sheer necessity ; as the old empire disintegrated , the tiny forces of the embattled Soviet republic could not hold it together . |
| 20 | The emperor himself could not stop it now . |
| 21 | When they got out of the cab she could not shake him off . |
| 22 | Aristotle 's influence was enormous , and even the great English physician , William Harvey , who laboured so long on the chick embryo , could not shake it off . |
| 23 | He could not shake it off . |
| 24 | Well , it was the best he had been able to come up with and , if it was not sufficient , he could not think what else he could do . |
| 25 | This view eventually fell away because , as Tom Smail puts it , the theologians ‘ could not cash it out ’ as a fully-blown doctrine of atonement . |
| 26 | Then he could not bear it any longer and started breaking down the wall . |
| 27 | Feelings of shame and anger boiled up inside me , but just as I felt I could not bear it any longer , Helen Burns walked past me and lifted her eyes to mine . |
| 28 | ‘ I could not bear it any longer , Overseer . |
| 29 | So at last , when he could not bear it any longer , he stopped and split one of the reeds with his dagger . |
| 30 | As Cassius remarks when Brutus has impressed the officers of his stoical resolve in accepting Portia 's death : ‘ I have as much of this in art as you , /But yet my nature could not bear it so ’ ( IV , iii , 192–3 ) . |