Example sentences of "could n't [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She realized this openly and laughed at him in the sun , saying that the Afghans could n't manage it either , and her blatant flirtatiousness fuelled him to perform one of his music-hall leaps over the back of the car into the bucket seat . |
| 2 | He , they left the er they 'd gone said leave it in the conservatory , then he went out and and and and er shut his conservatory so they could n't leave it so they asked me to keep it for him . |
| 3 | He could n't leave it there for long . |
| 4 | As she reached them she glanced back at the hire car , knowing that she could n't leave it there for long . |
| 5 | The kind of person my dad was , could n't leave it there . |
| 6 | I , I could n't finish it now . |
| 7 | He tried , and could n't open it either . |
| 8 | You could n't open it less with force , an it 's great force . |
| 9 | Brian , before you start , no laughing this time , I could n't stand it again . |
| 10 | The Widow Douglas , she took me for her son , and allowed she would sivilize me ; but it was rough living in the house all the time , considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways ; and so when I could n't stand it no longer , I lit out . |
| 11 | Finally , Bill could n't stand it any longer and one night he just clung to Marjorie and cried . |
| 12 | Then he could n't stand it any longer and said , ‘ What the hell 's happening here ? |
| 13 | After a short while we could n't stand it any longer ; we had to find out what was going on . |
| 14 | Suddenly I just could n't stand it any longer and said I 've GOT to push and she came out like a champagne cork at 8.15 a.m . |
| 15 | ‘ Finally I could n't stand it any longer , so I left him . ’ |
| 16 | She could n't stand it any longer . |
| 17 | In the end , I could n't stand it any longer . |
| 18 | When I could n't stand it any longer I dashed across the road and crept round the back . |
| 19 | But when my mother died he could n't handle it here any more . |
| 20 | I mean I think there 's the same problem with children in a sense , I mean , you you talking about confronting them with the realities of the world and I suppose I perhaps if we if we did expose ourselves to the erm to the true meaning of what 's going on in the world , we could n't handle it psychologically without stopping it , without doing something about it . |
| 21 | So you could n't carry it outside when the fire alarm went off . |
| 22 | I was unconsciously striving for something different ; I got that from my mother who could n't carry it forward for herself . " |
| 23 | I could n't explain it very well at the time and I still ca n't . |
| 24 | just gon na have to you know be stopped there anyway this young lad after the first fast bend he went to overtake and I could see a car coming the other way and he was like er running along side this pick-up but it was like he could n't drop back and he could n't make it either |
| 25 | I 'm disappointed Margaret could n't make it here . |
| 26 | you could n't make it today and get away with it |
| 27 | The voltage on the power panel which the Object Management Group has planned for its Object World expo later this month just went up a few notches : Lotus ' John Landry could n't make it so they got Sun 's Bill Joy as a substitute . |
| 28 | Guess you could n't make it before . ’ |
| 29 | And we could n't make it consistently . |
| 30 | But he could n't make it more horrible |