Example sentences of "could n't [adv] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could n't even feel resentful that he slept so peacefully after she had suffered a sleepless night of angst . |
| 2 | Nothing mattered except protecting her sister 's identity , and she could n't even do that . |
| 3 | I tried to persuade her to go home , even suggested I go with her to talk to her parents but she could n't even face that . |
| 4 | He could n't even copy English place-names accurately : in 1866 , making notes on the ‘ coloured Minton tiles ’ at the South Kensington Museum , he turns Stoke-upon-Trent into ‘ Stroke-upon-Trend ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Why , you could n't even kick that . ’ |
| 6 | On your own you could n't even protect innocent children left in your care from the Fascist thugs . |
| 7 | But if he could n't even get pissed in his own living room without all this blather it was hard to imagine him asking casually if I 'd care to step upstairs for some kinky sex . |
| 8 | I could n't even get that right . |
| 9 | They could n't even wait half an hour . |
| 10 | The old man could n't even put this Christmas . |
| 11 | ‘ Searchin' the place from top to bottom in the ‘ ope that there might ‘ ave been some grub to be found , but I could n't even find any communion wine . ’ |
| 12 | And we opened a small shop there and , in a whole week we could n't even sell fifty pence worth of sweets . |
| 13 | He could n't even hear faint sounds from the next apartment without his imagination putting together some unwholesome scene of matching action . |
| 14 | I could n't even hear that properly . |
| 15 | They had never spoken of the future and what would happen when their time was through but they would , because a love so consuming could n't just end this way . |
| 16 | Erm als other problems which arose from the outline land law was in its deliberate ambiguity er in its deliberate erm tt sort of ambiguity because it left reg it left the law to be interpreted by regional areas which meant that how that erm in some places they totally misinterpreted the law but the Communist Party had to have this flexibility because China was such a vast country and you could n't just impose one policy per se across the country . |
| 17 | I asked why he could n't just plead guilty . |
| 18 | I could n't just keep silent . |
| 19 | I was sure that I 'd be safe from then when I finally emerged from the city on the far side — it was n't likely that rats would abe allowed too close to the Divine Sanctum — but I could n't yet see any sign of a far side . |
| 20 | She cared no more for Mrs Monro than did anyone else , but the mother of my groom should , by rights , be beyond criticism , a positive bonus to my marriage , and even my mother , inclined as she was , to the bright side could n't overtly claim this . |
| 21 | We once set a case involving a highly seasonal business which ended up with no cash , a big overdraft , lots of creditors and no hope of any more revenue for at least six months : those students who did n't recognize that some pretty drastic immediate action was required ( surprisingly , there were several ) could n't reasonably expect any marks ! |
| 22 | So I , I could n't actually check that but somebody 's got to check it . |
| 23 | Apparently he was involved in an accident at work a few days ago , went to his local casualty department who could n't actually detect any break and treated it as a severe sprain . ’ |
| 24 | Peter would like it ; poor Peter , who had broken down in bed the night before , and wept that he had failed her , failed her as well as — but he could n't actually articulate that . |
| 25 | you could n't actually have separate parts |
| 26 | But I could n't live like that . |
| 27 | so you felt that and that pulse point there if you press on it hard enough you can actually stop the one in the wrist and of course that is controlling the flow of blood to the rest of the arm and you leave a pressure point closed off like that for no more than ten minutes , because if you left it on for too long that it means not sufficient blood 's getting to the rest of the , the limbs and the limb must have its blood supply , so you leave the pressure on for ten minutes and then release it , say for ten seconds just so say that the hand comes back pinkish again and if it 's not slowing down , back on with the pressure again for another ten minutes and that 's how you use it , tap off , ten minutes at the most , tap on for a little while , if it 's leaked again reapply , ten minutes at the most , tap on again , okay and that 's how you 'll control it , so if you do have a sit a situation where the bleeding was bad cos you 've got a , a limb severed , you could n't perhaps put sufficient direct pressure over that limb , this done , right , to control the bleeding then you could use indirect pressure , here , breaking or here , right in the , no playing now please , no trying to find this one right now , do this one tonight , in bed and the old lady said now what are you doing to me , never you mind , go to sleep |
| 28 | If it were again put to him that he could n't conceivably experience other people 's pain , he might say , ‘ That is why I said ‘ suppose ’ . |
| 29 | YOU could n't conceivably have two carriage processions coming from different parts of London to Westminster Abbey for the coronation and then going separate ways . |
| 30 | Well , she could n't really blame this one on Adam Burns . |