Example sentences of "she could [not/n't] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But without it she could not pay for her coffee and salad . |
| 2 | She could not hope for news every day … . |
| 3 | She could not answer for them . |
| 4 | Taken by surprise , she could not answer for a moment and than said angrily , ‘ If you knew , why did n't you say something before ? ’ |
| 5 | Mrs Ayers , who is still recovering from the shock , said at the moment she could not say for certain anything had been taken . |
| 6 | Doreen was convinced he was being unreasonable , but she could not account for her intense feelings of rage . |
| 7 | She flashed the note around , proudly though covertly , and looked for him at the bus stop , but she could not look for him without some misgiving . |
| 8 | She could hardly believe it , and she could not wait for her next consultation to see what was going to happen next . |
| 9 | She could n't afford to run any risks , and there was certainly something mysterious about David Arrowsmith , something she could n't identify for the moment : so she did n't trust him . |
| 10 | She could n't pay for an abortion herself because Nigel wo n't let her have a cheque book or a credit card , let alone any cash . |
| 11 | Twice before she 'd had proposals of marriage and had rejected them because she could n't feel for the men they came from . |
| 12 | Their eyes met , sheer delight in each other in both pairs , and then Luke was kissing her on the mouth with so much loving tenderness that she could n't speak for quite a while . |
| 13 | Emma closed her eyes but for the moment she could n't answer for the throbbing in her throat . |
| 14 | I used to think she did this because she loved my father so much she could n't wait for him to come home . |
| 15 | Chairman chairman there seem to be when I looked at it there seem to a number of headings here that I could n't account for and I 've asked the chair of the finance committee , she could n't account for them either , and I think it 's , whilst I understand the reasons for going and I 'm sure we would have approved them , I think it 's actually quite important that all these small sums , wh when you add them up over this erm over this month and you look at them , are quite large over the budget that we have have already adopted and the things that we wanted to do , and it concerns me that some of these things which are maybe very sensible , actually reduce our effectiveness of doing things that the council 's agreed that they are going to do this year and next year , the seventy six pounds here , the thirty pounds later on , fifty four pounds for large thorn plants et cetera , et cetera , and a hundred and fifty pounds over the budget on the Christmas lights . |
| 16 | She could n't apply for a passport as she was under age . |
| 17 | And she could n't ring for them unless he was really awake . |
| 18 | Until now she had n't taken much notice of him , so she could n't say for certain whether he was handsome or not . |
| 19 | Dot did n't mind about the toys and she knew she could n't ask for ginger pop because that cost money but she would have liked to have had her victory token back . |
| 20 | As for Jessie herself , she had held her in her arms and reassured her that her Robbie would be all right , even though , from the scanty information given her by the nurse , she could n't know for sure if he would be . |