Example sentences of "could n't [vb infin] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could n't hold one with a defendant who was just a mangled lump of flesh . ’ |
| 2 | Erm , we , we could n't nominate anyone at the A G M , no one was willing to do it . |
| 3 | small room , you could n't leave anything on the walls so it would all be a come down at night , back up in the morning |
| 4 | The next day she said , ‘ I could n't give one to daddy because there were n't enough . |
| 5 | One girl whispered that she could n't tell anyone at home , because they used drugs . |
| 6 | urgh , and you sick it all up again , I could n't eat a thing , I could n't eat anything for two days . |
| 7 | Well I could n't take I could n't do nowt about it at all so I went to see t head of firm and Aye , he says , it 's bad , he says , we do n't know to do things like that . |
| 8 | He could n't do nothing about it ! ) |
| 9 | Cos they s cos that 's compressed in , these barrels , and that was all done abroad and once these barrels broke , well you could n't do nothing about it but we never , they never , there was none of that wasted , never . |
| 10 | They said oh they could n't do nothing about that but er did n't think they could do much about it . |
| 11 | Well I could n't do nothing about it really , she said well that 'll be sorted out in she said I 'll treat it , we 're now sorting it out today what we 're doing . |
| 12 | Once the deed is done Father could n't do anything about it , especially if you 're away from the town . |
| 13 | It was so overwhelming I could n't do anything about it , ’ she says . |
| 14 | ‘ I could n't do anything about Greg . |
| 15 | Even the GenTech wizards , Dr Zarathustra and W. D. Donovan , could only reconstruct a ruined face ; they could n't do anything about a shredded psyche , a ruptured personality , a raped memory … |
| 16 | The GenTech labs could n't do anything about the common cold and no government had been able to develop a workable public transport system , but when it came to deathware , why , there were wonderful new toys on the market every fall , just in time for Christmas . |
| 17 | People kept saying to him , ‘ Stop picking your nose , ’ and he could n't do anything about it . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ I could n't do anything about Auschwitz and Dachau — and I ca n't do anything in Bosnia . ’ |
| 19 | It all seemed very simple then — particularly when I could n't do anything about it for a month . |
| 20 | I knew it and I could n't do anything about it . ’ |
| 21 | And she could n't do anything about Castelfonte , she could n't even get them to attempt making it profitable — she never understood about the land , that was n't in her blood . |
| 22 | It is widely believed , for example , that farmers contaminate watercourses every day in the normal course of their jobs ; but , as an officer from a rural district put it , ‘ I would n't take action if he could n't do anything about it . ’ |
| 23 | I could n't do anything about it . |
| 24 | I could n't do anything about it but I knew Wes was out there somewhere . |
| 25 | She could have been stoned , people would have mocked her as she passed in the street , as they jeered and booed that girl Serafina when she started getting bigger and everyone knew who 'd done it but they could n't do anything about it , not even kill him , because he was the son of a nobleman -Rosalba shuddered , remembering the way Serafina had thrown up her chin and turned and screamed at her tormentors , ‘ And which one of you is so good that you can point at me ! ’ , then dropped her head and run away down the street , holding her heavy breasts as she ran . |
| 26 | She could n't do anything about it . |
| 27 | It was hard to believe that this was actually happening ; harder still to accept that she could n't do anything about it . |
| 28 | I could n't do anything about Nassim 's cousin being in Pakistan , I reasoned as I rinsed my mouth for the hundredth time . |
| 29 | And I could n't do anything about the body , could I ? |
| 30 | You were condemned of people then you could n't care a damn about it cos you could n't do anything about it because your methods of running a country was a waste of time . |