Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But having got so far , she could not leave it there . |
| 2 | and I 've had that taken out because I could n't , I just could not stand it especially in hot weather ! |
| 3 | Clive spilled some of the powder as he heaped it in the spoon , and could not hold it steady over his lighter flame , but finally he got it liquefied . |
| 4 | Part of its working was the recognition of sheer necessity ; as the old empire disintegrated , the tiny forces of the embattled Soviet republic could not hold it together . |
| 5 | The emperor himself could not stop it now . |
| 6 | Then he could not bear it any longer and started breaking down the wall . |
| 7 | Feelings of shame and anger boiled up inside me , but just as I felt I could not bear it any longer , Helen Burns walked past me and lifted her eyes to mine . |
| 8 | ‘ I could not bear it any longer , Overseer . |
| 9 | So at last , when he could not bear it any longer , he stopped and split one of the reeds with his dagger . |
| 10 | As Cassius remarks when Brutus has impressed the officers of his stoical resolve in accepting Portia 's death : ‘ I have as much of this in art as you , /But yet my nature could not bear it so ’ ( IV , iii , 192–3 ) . |
| 11 | Just as he started to feel that he could not endure it any longer , that he would have to struggle , Doyle 's fingers relaxed slightly . |
| 12 | She must have seen it on some of the murdered woman 's belongings when you first entered the priory but she probably could not place it immediately . |
| 13 | A memory stirred but he could not place it so pushed the matter to one side . |
| 14 | You could not avoid it there . |
| 15 | Even when he could not do it properly he loved it , and very soon he pleased as much as he was pleased . |
| 16 | She knew that she could not do it alone . |
| 17 | The Dark Power continued to influence the world by encouraging evil , but he could not control it completely . |
| 18 | At Hertford in 1705 , according to Tutchin , when it became clear that the Tackers " could not carry it there by Legal Votes " , the town magistrates created between 100 and 150 " Honorary Freemen , all of the Tackers side " , and managed to ensure a Tory victory . |
| 19 | His passion , his arousal which the mere sight of her had provoked , was so strong that he wondered that she could not feel it too ; it seemed to hang , a living thing , in the air between them . |
| 20 | I could not wear it there because of my drysuit cuff , and had it just above the cuff to sleeve joint . |
| 21 | But the raison déacute ; etre behind this concession was not so that the bowlers could swing the ball more : it was to prevent one ball becoming so discoloured that the batsman could not see it easily under the light of day-night games ! |
| 22 | Grace could not see it very well , because of the rain and the sea . |
| 23 | Eagleton could not put it more simply : |
| 24 | " It 's just a trick , really , it 's easy , " said Clara , and she took back the egg , and found that she could not put it together again either , so they decided to abandon it , and left it in little pieces in a glass dish on the mantelpiece with some dry and coloured gourds , and then they went downstairs and out into the park , and walked towards the bus stop , and Clara explained , lest the gourds and the egg should be thought to reflect in any way on herself , that they had been given to her by a friend the week before , to celebrate her twenty-second birthday . |
| 25 | My right hon. and hon. Friends could not describe it any more succinctly than that . |
| 26 | Rural children in the North could not follow it adequately . |
| 27 | Somehow the protestant part of me could not find it right to speak of her place in God 's order of salvation because I was afraid of her obscuring the central place of Jesus Christ in his Church . |
| 28 | ‘ I found I could not afford it so I pulled out , ’ he said . |
| 29 | ( A coppa was my favourite treat but unfortunately I could not afford it very often . ) |
| 30 | She realized this openly and laughed at him in the sun , saying that the Afghans could n't manage it either , and her blatant flirtatiousness fuelled him to perform one of his music-hall leaps over the back of the car into the bucket seat . |