Example sentences of "could not [verb] out [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her latest ally , Soviet Russia , was reeling under Hitler 's onslaught and it was widely expected she could not last out the year . |
| 2 | Maura could see Terry 's lips moving but could not make out a word . |
| 3 | She could not make out the patch of canary-coloured light on the opposite wall , could not make out why the sun was shining and why her brown-stained hand , on the sheet , would not move for cold . |
| 4 | The position had been reached where she could not make out the labels on the cans of food she was heating up . |
| 5 | She could not make out the words , but knew instinctively they 'd been uttered by the uncle of her child . |
| 6 | THE National Blood Transfusion Service said last night that it could not rule out a patient contracting the HIV virus as Arthur Ashe did . |
| 7 | He did not as yet know all the details of how they had died , and what had gone before , but rumour had it that no great physical strength had been involved so that you could not rule out a woman as the killer . |
| 8 | Det Chief Insp Dave Sinclair said that although they could not rule out the possibility of someone else having fired the machine , the incident was now being treated as an accident . |
| 9 | ‘ Early days maybe , as the physician said — he could not rule out the possibility . |
| 10 | County homicide chief , Lieutenant John Tenwolde said he could not rule out the possibility that Mr Spiro had also been a victim of his family 's killer . |
| 11 | And they could not rule out the bigger commercial craft , tugs , lighters , oil tankers , and general cargo coasters , pursuing their lawful occasions on the Thames . |
| 12 | The national coach could not rule out the possibility , either , that Ferguson might go from the under-21 squad to the full international pool at Ibrox in the space of 24 hours . |
| 13 | The inquirer could not print out the pages herself at this point as the microcomputer was in use , so they were printed out and passed on to her . |
| 14 | But the maddest thing , Anton , how he was and what was happening to him , he could not scream out the shame of it . |
| 15 | The member States of the Commission could not carry out the duties entrusted to the Commission . |
| 16 | When I turned I saw a long patch of the fluorescent dye that the Germans carried staining the sea a light yellow-green but could not pick out the pilot . |
| 17 | The TV commentator was excitedly describing the drama , but although she strained to hear she could not pick out the name of the victim . |
| 18 | Secondly , the Government have evaded parliamentary questions by placing the Benefits Agency and other agencies beyond our reach : we could not find out the answers without going through ever more tortuous procedures . |
| 19 | But all the will-power she could muster could not shut out the desolate sense of emptiness that had closed like a cold hand round her heart . |
| 20 | Millions and millions of bits of information were still in her head , correctly labelled and neatly stored , but she could not work out the geography of this house , she was seeing green tigers and she was afraid in a way she had not been since childhood . |
| 21 | If she could not get out the train would carry her on to the next station , to London Bridge , it would carry her on under the river . |