Example sentences of "could n't [verb] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | and could n't clear it at the end of the quarter ? |
| 2 | But I could n't leave it at that . |
| 3 | No but you see I could n't tell you at the start because you 'd sound , you would n't have said half the things you did say . |
| 4 | Sometimes our bodies and minds seek excuses to experience griefs that we may have put aside or denied because we could n't face them at the time . |
| 5 | The registry office could n't marry them at such short notice and they must wait until the following day . |
| 6 | He added : ‘ Ferzana wanted to watch TV and could n't do it at the family gathering . ’ |
| 7 | My leg had gone completely to sleep and I could n't feel it at all , but I managed to hobble to the door , collecting fourpence out of my wallet , and down the stairs to the first landing where the telephone was . |
| 8 | Derby winner Dr Devious also raced freely before weakening into 10th and jockey Chris McCarron , who replaced regular rider John Reid , reported afterwards : ‘ I could n't control him at all . ’ |
| 9 | She said she 's absolutely brilliant she said you could n't fault her at all . |
| 10 | I could n't stand chemistry anyway , could n't understand it at all , the atoms and the neutrons and all that . |
| 11 | They could n't understand it at the time , and nor could I. None of us has any religious sense , there were n't any fundamentalist kinsmen to pacify : the absence of a fellow in a frilly white frock would n't have led to the suppuku of disinheritance . |
| 12 | She looked sad and Jenna could n't understand it at all . |
| 13 | so , you know , I looked under the bonnet , I could n't understand it at all tt , er , so I eventually got a lift and got a ride down into Malham and er , went in the telephone box there |
| 14 | Edouard was sent back home , they could n't have him at work looking like that . ’ |
| 15 | It 's like , with Sharon Stone , even at the end she was still dependent on Michael Douglas , like , when he was going she was crying and she could n't kill him at the end cos she loved him so much and , you know what I mean , so no , Body of Evidence , it 'll probably have a rubbish end and she 'll probably marry the lawyer or something , but it was still good to see her beat , tying a man up , putting candle wax on him and shit . |
| 16 | It bothered him to let her go like this , but she 'd insisted ; for a while he could n't see her at all , until she reached the skyline and stopped for a moment . |
| 17 | I wriggled until I could peer over the edge into the wet depths below and I could n't see him at all . |
| 18 | He said , ‘ There was such a crowd round the chap on the table I could n't see him at first . |
| 19 | Edge on , you could n't see it at all . |
| 20 | And so as I grew up er they knew me and I knew them and I was to need one or two later on , for various reasons , but er you could n't see it at the time . |
| 21 | There is a rather improbable story that , when Captain cook first sailed into Botany Bay , Australia , the size of his ship was so far beyond anything that the local aborigines had ever seen that they could n't see it at all . |
| 22 | The driver could n't find him at first as only the top of his helmet was visible . |
| 23 | I suspected about his thieving , but I could n't prove it at that stage . |
| 24 | He tried to tackle Gina about it , hinting that a young man like him needed sex from someone if he could n't get it at home . |
| 25 | She could n't turn it at first ; she fumbled and wrenched and then made herself try again , without forcing . |
| 26 | I could n't convince them at the other end that I needed an ambulance because I was outside the hospital . |
| 27 | No , she could n't help them at all . |
| 28 | ‘ Could n't help it at first , but we 've become friends . |
| 29 | She could n't remember it at all . |
| 30 | Oh , no I put a six where a five should be , in my pin number , that 's all I did , but I just , I just stood there and my mind just completely went blank , I could n't remember it at all . |