Example sentences of "could not [verb] and [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Creggan had never in his short life felt so desolate , and try as he did he could not rest and fall asleep . |
| 2 | Communal farming , however , was still important to those who could not acquire and enclose private farms . |
| 3 | A board of directors could not exist and act as a corporate entity if it were composed of two groups of people , each deriving its authority from and answerable to a different principal body , the one liable to be in conflict with the other ; for it would in fact be a negotiating committee . |
| 4 | At first , the executives believed that the reason they could not formulate and implement a viable strategic plan was that they lacked sound financial data . |
| 5 | If you were to come yourself Lily or the child 's Father I could not stand in your way whatever my feelings which are strong , but to hand over my Precious little one to a Young and Foreign girl who spoke his only language poorly that I could not do and send him with her on a dangerous voyage most frightening to him . |
| 6 | For example , 80% of female personal service workers said they could not design and plan important parts of their work ; 96% said they could not decide their starting and finishing times ; and 63 % said they could not initiate new tasks during their work . |
| 7 | We were briefed that if we could not sight and identify the target we had to bring our bombs back . |
| 8 | Obviously I could not relax and take stock in the turret after what had happened , so I worked my way back to the Bible Room , closed the door quietly and lay down in the bunk . |
| 9 | Roland felt a huge irritability mounting inside himself , mild though he knew himself to be , compounded of distress at hearing Lady Bailey 's faded voice stammer across Randolph Henry Ash 's prose , which sang in his head , reconstituted , and also of frustration because he could not seize and explore these folded paper time-bombs . |
| 10 | One thousand men could not enter and remain in the vicinity for any time without being discovered . |
| 11 | The poor fellow could not accept and believe that a person with active flying experience , slight as it may have been , could land an aircraft in a relatively confined space . |
| 12 | Sperm whales have been discovered which have such badly damaged jaws that they could not grab and hold a live fish , and yet these whales are otherwise healthy and well fed . |
| 13 | Without Prince to carry loads , John Durbeyfield could not buy and sell as he used to . |
| 14 | The most active of these well-disciplined " rebels " occupied an office in the Air Ministry and were all agreed that the basic cause of our dismal failure to date was navigation , Disregarding the gallantry and the will to " press-on " , if — in the face of all the efforts of the enemy , his flak defences , searchlights , decoy targets and , most lethal , ever-increasing " fighter boxes " of the Kammhuber Line — we simply could not find and destroy targets , the task was virtually impossible in the face of such odds . |
| 15 | So viewed , the decision is entirely consistent with the test laid down by Best J. The benefit of the covenant to repay could not touch and concern the land because someone other than the owner for the time being of the term could take the benefit of it … |
| 16 | the operators could not trace and diagnose equipment faults , skilled technicians were necessary , and repairs took longer ; |
| 17 | The problem with SmartIcons up until now had been that while you could customise the current palette you could not name and save different versions of the palette . |