Example sentences of "could not [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would check it , if he needed to , but he could not at the moment see why Morgan would have wanted to kill the daughter to whom he had plainly been so devoted . |
| 2 | For the next few days I was horribly inactive , gripped by a lethargy that I could not for the life of me understand . |
| 3 | I said that it would be unkind and discourteous to decline a visit , but I could not for the life of me see how I could help him where persons of much greater power were impotent . |
| 4 | He could not for the life of him understand why they should wish to remain inside the cottage while the Domain was dusted with poisons . |
| 5 | Mahmoud , incoherent with fury , could not for the moment say what it was . |
| 6 | Subject to some exceptions … it matters not that the doer of the act of usurpation did not know , and could not by the exercise of any reasonable care have known of his neighbour 's interest in the goods . |
| 7 | I could not in the court of law swear that you had been under my observations the whole time we were making the ascent . ’ |