Example sentences of "could not [vb infin] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could not go to Adamus . |
| 2 | He simply could not go to school . |
| 3 | Robert Carnwath feared that the Act was so confused that we could not go to court with a realistic chance of winning . |
| 4 | He did not know how to tell her that he was very , very sorry for being small , and for snivelling , and for ruining her life so that she could not go to America to be a film-star . |
| 5 | What did emerge though was a personable and seemingly deeply caring young man , claiming not to understand why sportsmen could not go to South Africa but could go to India , which imported South African gold . |
| 6 | The doctrine of original sin and baptismal regeneration meant that an unbaptised infant could not go to heaven . |
| 7 | The four went back to No. 43 , in a close tender group , Jim as king , as victor , and , unwilling that the evening should be lost , they sat on around the kitchen table , sentinelled by the yellow forsythia , and could not bear to part . |
| 8 | Therefore , he could not return to England , where his duties would force him into communion with those whose company he was forbidden to frequent : |
| 9 | Leapor , a poor woman , could not dress to advantage ; indeed , her employers ' low regard for her as a servant is partly related to her appearance . |
| 10 | I could not explain to Wemmick how I felt about Magwitch 's money , so I said nothing . |
| 11 | Hill farmers , who could not change to dairying because their land was unsuitable , are suffering because of such distortions . |
| 12 | There would be time now to see Mr. Fynney , the chief debenture holder on the line , and take his opinion , which I believe has not been given on the position but he , unfortunately , a short time ago lost his brother , and could not attend to business , and there would be time now to obtain the consideration of the promoters of the points above named , before the bill passes the House of Lords . |
| 13 | The only regret was that her parents could not come to England for her commissioning , though a report in the Australian War Cry announced that she had come " Dux " of the session and had trained the women cadets for the timbrel play at the commissioning . |
| 14 | Or maybe utterly sane , perhaps it was he who could not come to grips with the topsy-turvy world they all now lived in , Edward thought . |
| 15 | But he could not come to terms with the climate . |
| 16 | It hurt even more that friends like Tolkien , to whom he had dedicated The Screwtape Letters , could not respond to Lewis 's effusions as ‘ Everyman 's Theologian ’ . |
| 17 | Since SCOTVEC personnel could not respond to requests from all centres to run staff development events for them , each workshop was developed as a pack of information , examples and activities for participants together with extensive support material so that centres or Regions can themselves organise and run the events . |
| 18 | As Fisher pressed Coggan for Canterbury he could not object to Coggan going to the see of York . |
| 19 | The Government could not point to evidence of particular abuse of power by trade unions . |
| 20 | The children could not get to school and the parents could not get to work . |