Example sentences of "we could [not/n't] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we could n't bring any apples though yesterday , not taking me car with |
| 2 | We could n't sense that , a few hundred feet above us up the ridge , David Simpson 's and Jane Lapiner 's house had shaken apart , that rocks had thundered down the cliff face opposite my house , that a mile to the north at the precise moment that we were walking through Jim 's house and I was spreading out the blueprints on the hood of my car to continue our conversation , an overturned electric coffee pot in the Petrolia store had already started a blaze that would finish off the store and our adjoining post office in about 45 minutes . |
| 3 | well we could n't eat that |
| 4 | But we could n't eat all the curry it was very , both of us at one time , we could have scoffed the lot ! |
| 5 | We had every other Sunday off , you see , but otherwise we worked and did n't get any extra for it but of course the girls like myself well erm we could n't lift these huge urns of tea so they had two men keep them on , you see , and er , and we were er perhaps I know one day we did n't finish until five o'clock in the morning |
| 6 | to say that we could n't go all er go er tt all go to her house and I was just about to ask Sam if Jenny knew and she put the phone down and she had n't told Jenny . |
| 7 | But they 've got very very poor eyesight so although they could sense where we were , as we stayed really really still they could n't see us so we were quite safe but er we could n't go any nearer than about ten yards from them erm because there were n't any suitable trees to climb in case they started to chase us . |
| 8 | Barbie said she 'd rather have a cigarette anyway and gave them back to us , but we could n't break any of them off , so we kept passing this lump backwards and forwards , sucking it and grinding little chunks off it , till we got fed up with it and chucked it on the floor . |
| 9 | The problem is , of course , that we could n't assemble that many monkeys . |
| 10 | So we need to build our systems to meet the requirements we have today because we could n't justify more and yet we have to build in the scale scaleability so that systems can grow to meet the growing requirements which are almost inevitable . |
| 11 | We could n't make any decision on Mr Maxwell s behalf . |
| 12 | We I remember once , my first skiing trip , there was a really heavy blizzard one night and it was s the snow got so deep that we could n't open any doors , we were snowed in , yeah ? |
| 13 | Similarly for Locke we 're in this world , sent by God about his business , the business is , in very general terms , to flourish and multiply this means , well that is the reason why we have certain rights , the right to life , the right to liberty , the right to property because if we did n't have these rights we could n't fulfil that obligation . |
| 14 | I 've said the same to meself , but the way we are fixed … well , we could n't do much else . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We could n't do that , ’ he says . |
| 16 | But we could n't do that . |
| 17 | We could n't do that ! |
| 18 | We could n't do that cos we 've got an hour . |
| 19 | So you know , we could n't do that , I mean it was great , the kids loved it . |
| 20 | Because it is ground offensive in sand , you want to be able to see that if you 're being shot , we could n't we could n't do that , and it became questionable whether we were actually going to be able to see the ground or not , so we called it aboard . |
| 21 | and we could n't do that well you 're alright because she gi |
| 22 | And just cos we could n't do some questions on the paper she says , Oh you 're not good enough then you should 've learnt it better . |
| 23 | ‘ And I could n't see , so we could n't do any more the things we used to — just little things , like watching the sunset , or laughing at a holopic when we turned out the lights in bed , or me reading a poem to her . |
| 24 | Jim Bob , laughing , says that some of the crew are here , as much for him to talk to as for their tour responsibilities : ‘ Because if we were n't having a good time with our friends we could n't do this . ’ |
| 25 | I got wet and then I got dry ! and we could n't do this job because of the weather . |
| 26 | Anyway , we could n't leave this — vehicle — here , could we ? |
| 27 | Her dramatic assertion may have been wish fulfilment , a hyperbolic statement expressing her real desires , but with such an unstable outlook we could n't take any chances : publication was brought forward to June . |
| 28 | ‘ We could n't take any more . ’ |
| 29 | We often reached our overdraft limit because of a sticky cashflow — and after taking on a large mortgage to pay for a new factory we could n't raise any further borrowing for the second production line we needed much sooner than expected . |
| 30 | Only we could n't see that little bit of the tranquil panorama in which Brueghel had shown Icarus drowning . |