Example sentences of "could n't [vb infin] her [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could n't bring her into the house because we had an old cat and we had no spare kennels , so that just left the caravan . |
| 2 | ‘ Aye , come through into the kitchen , ’ Hari spoke guardedly and Emily could n't blame her for being suspicious . |
| 3 | She was so proud of herself for getting that out , grinning wildly at the other woman , that Ruth could n't subject her to more and left them for the tennis courts while they unpacked the dusty Seat that seemed to be packed to the gunnels with baskets of clothes and packages . |
| 4 | He decided that he could n't tell her about this . |
| 5 | She keeps giving me clothes — ; not this dear old awful thing , Mrs McPhee at home made this — and making me practise manners and the piano and I could n't tell her about last night , I could n't , I ca n't disappoint another person , not after my mother — ’ and Alexandra put her head down on to the slice of bread on her plate and burst into tears . |
| 6 | One commonly heard complaint from relatives is that ‘ I was told she was too disturbed for the council day centre as they could n't stop her from wandering out ’ , yet ‘ The doctor at the day hospital said they only took short-term cases , people who could get better and move on . ’ |
| 7 | I know you could n't hurt her for the world . |
| 8 | You could n't hurt her for me and I would n't wish you to . |
| 9 | She now felt so dangerously soporific that even the sneaking fear of Roman 's insidious effect on her could n't rouse her from this lovely torpor … |
| 10 | He could n't distinguish her from the darkness , but any lingering doubt that she might belong to the dream from which he 'd risen was dispatched as her hand went from his mouth to his bare chest . |
| 11 | She said she 's absolutely brilliant she said you could n't fault her at all . |
| 12 | She was always clean , you could n't fault her for cleanliness , but I 'm sure she must of either washed her clothes in the toilets , you know , wash basin in the toilets because that was the only thing she had was one bag and she used to , er , her pension book was in and er erm |
| 13 | Just as she did n't take him for granted , she made sure he could n't take her for granted either . |
| 14 | Asked why the interest in Elvis , Walken said that a girl he had a crush on in school used to carry round a picture of her boyfriend , and this was used as an excuse for why Walken could n't take her to his high school prom . |
| 15 | Could n't have her as a neighbour . |
| 16 | I told them I would n't have her , I , I if they wanted to go on holiday I would n't have her , I could n't have her in here she 'd knock everything to bits , try to move everything in here that she would n't chew |
| 17 | My daughter was of er grammar school erm tuition but we could n't put her into anywhere here because there were no schools available Loughton would n't take her neither would er , Bishop 's Stortford because they were the only two grammar schools available here and erm my dau , other daughter with many other children er , well all the , children of the residency in Tanys Dell and the Glebelands had to travel to Chingford every day to school . |
| 18 | It bothered him to let her go like this , but she 'd insisted ; for a while he could n't see her at all , until she reached the skyline and stopped for a moment . |
| 19 | And er they could n't bury her in the in the Kirkyard . |
| 20 | But I could n't get her to the doctor , she would n't go . |