Example sentences of "could not [vb infin] [pers pn] [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 | and I 've had that taken out because I could n't , I just could not stand it especially in hot weather ! |
| 8 | It followed that Northumberland 's men were in a sense Gloucester 's men , even though the duke could not retain them directly . |
| 9 | It followed that Northumberland 's men were in a sense Gloucester 's men , even though the duke could not retain them directly . |
| 10 | They could not hold him now , they could only hope to come off with their lives and unidentified . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The emperor himself could not stop it now . |
| 14 | Then he could not bear it any longer and started breaking down the wall . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ I could not bear it any longer , Overseer . |
| 17 | So at last , when he could not bear it any longer , he stopped and split one of the reeds with his dagger . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | He could not answer her quite at once . |
| 20 | Just as he started to feel that he could not endure it any longer , that he would have to struggle , Doyle 's fingers relaxed slightly . |
| 21 | She must have seen it on some of the murdered woman 's belongings when you first entered the priory but she probably could not place it immediately . |
| 22 | A memory stirred but he could not place it so pushed the matter to one side . |
| 23 | She could not tell her yet ; not until Elizabeth was completely strong again . |
| 24 | The poser being , of course , that she could not tell him either the true reason she was here , or even who she really was . |
| 25 | Sir Walter Scott called barefoot and ragged wild mountain Scots lads ‘ gillie wetfoots ’ , saying he could not tell them apart from the fairies who ‘ beat the bushes ’ . |
| 26 | You could not avoid it there . |
| 27 | When the clergy tried to calm them , the crowd declared that the valuables belonged to the people , not to the church , so that priests could not give them away . |
| 28 | He could not embarrass her now , not after Claudine had spoken to her . |
| 29 | Even when he could not do it properly he loved it , and very soon he pleased as much as he was pleased . |
| 30 | She knew that she could not do it alone . |