Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She could not go to Adamus .
2 He simply could not go to school .
3 Robert Carnwath feared that the Act was so confused that we could not go to court with a realistic chance of winning .
4 He did not know how to tell her that he was very , very sorry for being small , and for snivelling , and for ruining her life so that she could not go to America to be a film-star .
5 What did emerge though was a personable and seemingly deeply caring young man , claiming not to understand why sportsmen could not go to South Africa but could go to India , which imported South African gold .
6 The doctrine of original sin and baptismal regeneration meant that an unbaptised infant could not go to heaven .
7 The four went back to No. 43 , in a close tender group , Jim as king , as victor , and , unwilling that the evening should be lost , they sat on around the kitchen table , sentinelled by the yellow forsythia , and could not bear to part .
8 Therefore , he could not return to England , where his duties would force him into communion with those whose company he was forbidden to frequent :
9 Leapor , a poor woman , could not dress to advantage ; indeed , her employers ' low regard for her as a servant is partly related to her appearance .
10 I could not explain to Wemmick how I felt about Magwitch 's money , so I said nothing .
11 Hill farmers , who could not change to dairying because their land was unsuitable , are suffering because of such distortions .
12 There would be time now to see Mr. Fynney , the chief debenture holder on the line , and take his opinion , which I believe has not been given on the position but he , unfortunately , a short time ago lost his brother , and could not attend to business , and there would be time now to obtain the consideration of the promoters of the points above named , before the bill passes the House of Lords .
13 The only regret was that her parents could not come to England for her commissioning , though a report in the Australian War Cry announced that she had come " Dux " of the session and had trained the women cadets for the timbrel play at the commissioning .
14 Or maybe utterly sane , perhaps it was he who could not come to grips with the topsy-turvy world they all now lived in , Edward thought .
15 But he could not come to terms with the climate .
16 It hurt even more that friends like Tolkien , to whom he had dedicated The Screwtape Letters , could not respond to Lewis 's effusions as ‘ Everyman 's Theologian ’ .
17 Since SCOTVEC personnel could not respond to requests from all centres to run staff development events for them , each workshop was developed as a pack of information , examples and activities for participants together with extensive support material so that centres or Regions can themselves organise and run the events .
18 As Fisher pressed Coggan for Canterbury he could not object to Coggan going to the see of York .
19 The Government could not point to evidence of particular abuse of power by trade unions .
20 The children could not get to school and the parents could not get to work .
21 And I could n't talk to mum and dad .
22 Could n't talk to ladies , absolutely speechless .
23 You could n't talk to Woolley , you could n't live with him .
24 And the worst part was that she could n't talk to Elinor about it .
25 ‘ Funny that , dear , I could n't talk to Lizzie , not to my own daughter .
26 I could n't talk to Mama in the same way as I 'm doing now .
27 ‘ So they thought that a lot of the people who could n't go to Knebworth would maybe come to the shows if we did them in London — Earls Court and places like that .
28 Mum 'd be there , she could n't go to work with this anxiety hanging over her .
29 I co I could n't I could n't go to work Monday and Friday , Monday to Friday and then spend all the weekend in the house and then just go to work Monday to Friday again , and do that week in and week out .
30 Could n't go to work looking like that , could he ? ’
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