Example sentences of "could n't [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not that she could n't contemplate marriage to anyone other than Will . |
| 2 | I could n't leave Elinor on her own . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I left here , telling myself I could n't be lady Anne 's companion 'cos I could n't leave mama on her own . |
| 4 | Lou Macari signed a three year contract with Celtic this afternoon then told Scotland Today he would walk away if he could n't bring success to the club in that time . |
| 5 | Nigel could n't stand poetry of any sort — well , perhaps limericks or his own early efforts . |
| 6 | But you could n't drape prettiness over Timothy Gedge . |
| 7 | You could n't invent stuff like this . |
| 8 | He could n't waste time in useless persuasion . |
| 9 | His lips moved , and some noises came out but I could n't make sense of them . |
| 10 | He said something and I could n't make sense of it |
| 11 | ‘ And if he could n't make love to his wife because she was paralysed from the waist down … ’ |
| 12 | because I could n't speak English at all , I speak the , I could read a paper or a book , I du n no what is all about , but I used to get because you got on it for instant like mm |
| 13 | He could n't tell direction in the fog . |
| 14 | Roger From the Practice could n't tell emphysema from the common cold . |
| 15 | HEARTBROKEN husband Robin Hood killed himself because he could n't face life without his murdered wife ‘ Maid ’ Marion . |
| 16 | Oh I could n't eat chocolate in bed . |
| 17 | You could n't do business with — take over — an organization unless it was private enterprise . |
| 18 | But she could n't stop thinking of David in his white coat , visiting the patients , touching them , and this was where her thoughts made her tingle all over , and she had to set her mind to something else . |
| 19 | But even I could n't will wakefulness with complete success , and the events of those nights soon began to affect my day-time behaviour . |
| 20 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 21 | The apprentices er did n't start before six o'clock in the morning of course they could n't start apprentice before six o'clock in the morning until he was maybe in his last year then it would be either one o'clock or two o'clock in the morning . |
| 22 | Biggerstaff 's Metro 6R4 suffered a puncture on his first run but even a courageous charge at the second attempt could n't displace Woodside at the top of the list . |
| 23 | You could n't distinguish German from ice . |
| 24 | Could n't fault Pride of Calais ( or her sister ship , Dover ) : spacious and comfortable , a good-looking restaurant and cafeteria . |
| 25 | She could n't accept help from him . |
| 26 | You could n't take responsibility for living bodies , blood that can flow , nerves that can actually feel . |
| 27 | " But I could n't take responsibility for them , " Mr. Mendez said . |
| 28 | He was such a charismatic man that Ruth could n't take offence at that . |
| 29 | ’ At first I felt I could n't take care of my own life , ’ she says , remembering a rocky past with its broken marriage , drink and drugs . |
| 30 | Most of her friends from school lived with their parents , and most of them were poor ; they could n't have Jamila with them . |