Example sentences of "he could n't [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I reckon he could easily have shot 64 again in the last round , but he could n't hole a putt . |
| 2 | He could n't manage the other though . |
| 3 | He could n't manage the arithmetic . |
| 4 | ‘ He could n't cure a side of bacon , ’ muttered Jackie . |
| 5 | But he could n't invent a love that had never been there and he felt that Lou would be better off without him . |
| 6 | He needed more canvas , but he could n't leave the helm . |
| 7 | I think he finally started thinking , for reasons I ca n't say , about whether or not he could actually leave the hospital , and he finally asked , and he realized that he could n't leave the hospital alive . |
| 8 | ‘ I believe we loved each other , but when it came to the crunch he could n't leave the priesthood . ’ |
| 9 | He could n't leave the crucifix in the luggage locker for ever . |
| 10 | He wanted so badly to ask Swan this question , but he could n't speak a word of bird-language . |
| 11 | When the train started Jasper put his mouth over the tip and realized he could n't light the cigarette because the end was outside . |
| 12 | He could n't tell a woman like Maggie Byrne that thoughts of Sarah were blighting his relationship with his wife , and turning him to celibacy . |
| 13 | I said he could n't tell a line of dialogue from a line of coke and anyway his face was carved out of corned beef , and he threatened to punch me . |
| 14 | He could n't tell a lie to save his life . ’ |
| 15 | He had never made anything and he could n't tell the difference between one flower and another . |
| 16 | Bill only likes H P beans and I give Maggie a tin of them seventeen P beans and I says throw the tin away before he sees it and he could n't tell the difference . |
| 17 | Rainey believes he could n't make a corner at GP speed if he merely sat on the bike without pushing down — hard . |
| 18 | He tried , I heard him ; he could n't make a fuss , Mum would have heard . |
| 19 | He could n't make the boy out . |
| 20 | Pascoe looked at her as if he could n't make the connection . |
| 21 | To cut a long story short , he could n't make the grade so he ended up as a pharmacist in the business his father bought for him as a going concern . |
| 22 | He was bitter because he could n't inherit the glory they unwittingly advertised . |
| 23 | But even he could n't stop the Scot . |
| 24 | Isabel prayed he could n't feel the trembling in her limbs . |
| 25 | Cos I noticed when we were there and it just collapsed he could n't walk a lot . |
| 26 | He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort . |
| 27 | He could n't threaten the Soviet Union directly because the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and could n't be threatened er so the course of action he took was intended to be moderate and to secure the objective solely of removing the missiles from Cuba , not of doing anything about the Cuban government or the regime or anything of that sort . |
| 28 | Boy looked at the pictures of the moustached and uniformed characters with some relish ; but he could n't finish the text , and so missed the single paragraph that Mother had circled in black ink . |
| 29 | He could n't face the world . |
| 30 | ‘ He could n't face the harsh , cold reality of telling his wife and children that the good life was over , that his days of living in lovely Rancho Santa Fe were numbered , ’ said the source . |