Example sentences of "could n't [vb infin] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and could n't clear it at the end of the quarter ? |
| 2 | He captured the citadel but he only had a few troops with him and it was clear he could n't hold it for long , so he pushed on east past Excideuil into the Limousin , driving straight into the heartland of the rebel cause and devastating the country as he went . |
| 3 | But I could n't leave it at that . |
| 4 | ‘ Rose felt we could n't leave it until the morning . |
| 5 | No , I was n't gon na use it , I just could n't leave it in that boarding house for Rachel to unpack . |
| 6 | staying open , I ai n't going , I ca n't handle it I said I just wan na get out , it was really like a sentence I just could n't stand it of course I laughed , me and Elaine went to the meeting same place , same wall and I kept looking at her and we brought you in here to say thanks , and Elaine looked at me and I looked at her and I said well if that 's all he 's got ta say I said I 'm not , I , what did I say to Elaine ? |
| 7 | ‘ You could n't stand it for a second . ’ |
| 8 | My mum could n't stand it in the end she sa let's get back to bomb there ! |
| 9 | ‘ There were some strands of a drugs story in California but the reporters could n't link it to smuggling from South America , which was the obvious line of enquiry . |
| 10 | You 'd really need to see them to I mean I could n't explain it to you really . |
| 11 | She could n't explain it to herself . |
| 12 | He could n't confess it to Florrie ; he could never talk about it to anyone except Josh , who had been there with him — and he was not on very good terms with his brother , these days . |
| 13 | Uncle Mosse had wanted to be dead there , and since he could n't achieve it for himself , his clothes had done it for him . |
| 14 | I would have to wait until Mum and Dad went out to the pub so we could n't make it to the first . |
| 15 | One pitched out , hitting the ground with a sickening thud ; Erin yelled , trying to hold on , but she fell too , attempting to roll , but she could n't make it to her feet with one shin-bone staring whitely at her through her pant-leg . |
| 16 | He explained he was having a dizzy spell and could n't make it to the doctor 's , so I drove him there . |
| 17 | My suggestion is that the evolution of subcutaneous fat in neonates and post-natal depression is an example of co-evolution and what has happened is mothers are programmed to be depressed for the first few days after birth because in primal conditions when remember this is where evolution set the parameters of human behaviour , in primal conditions it would probably pay a mother to test her new-born offspring to see if it could survive , because if it was defective or if it was sickly , or if there was some reason why that baby could n't make it to adulthood and its own reproductive life , that mother should not invest in it , because that 's her reproductive success . |
| 18 | On Christmas Eve , listening to herself making yet more excuses on the telephone , explaining why they could n't make it to a family party , hearing her sister 's disappointment . |
| 19 | Batty could n't make it for the second half against Villa after a recurrence of a calf injury he received against Wimbledon last Saturday . |
| 20 | He had wanted the part of the young boy who could n't make it with his date in the first play , but he was a juvenile no more and Peter Shaffer had to convince him that it would n't work . |
| 21 | ‘ He said he 'd read it somewhere a couple of years ago , and it had struck him so deeply that he could n't shake it from his mind . |
| 22 | No — I could n't justify it to other people . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , ’ the boy said , ‘ he was working up on the roof , so I could n't give it to him . |
| 24 | She could n't decipher it in the pitch black . |
| 25 | You could n't tell it from the real thing . ’ |
| 26 | But she had to step down at one stage because she herself won the top prize of the day — and could n't present it to herself ! |
| 27 | and er it 's that warm , it 's got to be really cold , I mean you could n't wear it in here on a Sunday night |
| 28 | Acid rose in her throat and , even though she knew her anger was , in truth , directed at Marianne , she could n't prevent it from spilling into her words . |
| 29 | Normally Rory despised sarcasm , but right now she could n't prevent it from creeping into her voice . |
| 30 | He could n't admit it to Pam , but he was more than a little disturbed by the fact that the Triad enforcer had escaped Springfield 's dragnet , after having almost killed Grant . |