Example sentences of "you could not [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or was it the pleasure of having men 's eyes on you that you could not do without ? ’ |
| 2 | You could not hide from God . |
| 3 | Why was it right to train a fellow and you knew , or you felt that , you could not go to the flight commander or the wing commander and say a think this fellow should go down the pits , " or a think we should remuster him to the Army or the Navy " . |
| 4 | Something you could not mention before the men , perhaps ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You snored all night , ’ he said with relish , and Cermait got up and removed himself from this low vulgar company , because you could not stay in a room with people who told the High Queen that you snored . |
| 6 | There are two rooms at the front and two at the back on each floor , and although you could not tell from the outside , the first floor rooms are a foot higher than those below . |
| 7 | You , you could not get into debt Brenda . |
| 8 | You could not wait for him to pass by . |
| 9 | Rightly or wrongly I was convinced you could not deal with unemployment without a tariff . |
| 10 | You could not live without hope , some part of her woman 's intuition told her : while a future was left you must not . |
| 11 | She curled up in the position she had slept in as a child ; and realised with a sinking heart that it was not only the most comfortable way of being in bed , but it was also one that you could not adopt in company . |
| 12 | For , of course , you could not see to the foot of the hill , let alone seven counties , under the stars . |
| 13 | By the time that you have battled against the wind to get there , you may find that it has some hazard that you could not see from a distance , and then there may be no other good field within reach . |
| 14 | It is time that your creative talents were developed alongside individuals who are of like mind and outlook , and you could not wish for a better planetary set-up to further your aims and ambitions : the past few years have taught you all you need to know about self-survival . |
| 15 | Oppenheimer said that it was ‘ technically so sweet that you could not argue about that . |
| 16 | You could not ask for a better curtain-raiser to the day 's racing . |
| 17 | You could n't rely on him . |
| 18 | If you could n't rely on that , how could you even start ? |
| 19 | You could n't walk into his dressing-room five minutes after the curtain came down for fear of what you might find him doing . |
| 20 | Ee , no , lad : you could n't quarrel with Walter . |
| 21 | You could n't speak to someone who was no longer there . |
| 22 | I was confused , not realising why you could n't speak to me to tell me what was wrong . |
| 23 | I know things have altered recently , but certainly at one time you could n't speak to God yourself and confess your sins direct to Him . |
| 24 | Joseph said you could n't be stopped from coming but he 'd arrange matters so you could n't speak to her . |
| 25 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 26 | Now on that twenty feet long , now I 'm up about say , you can say anything like about fifteen feet up in the in the air , might be less than that and then you got twenty feet up like that , well then there used to be wire and used to have a big wheel in top , which you could n't go over the top and with a wire , then I used to have a sling chain , my main hook and that was thirteen foot long and you take th that and on , on working on top of the lorry , see you got to be so careful and there 's men working on that lorry as well , course I broke the wheel . |
| 27 | You could n't work in the quarry , you could n't go through the gate in the quarry without being a union man , in the old days there . |
| 28 | There was a time when you could n't go through a week , perhaps could n't even going through a day , without hearing the British National Anthem somewhere . |
| 29 | You could n't go into a restaurant on The Strip if you did n't have a black tie . |
| 30 | You could n't go on the heath and train horses up after half past nine . |