Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hebbert and McFall do , Hebbert decided , and he persuaded his partner they could not leave it at that after such a long flog up the mountainside . |
| 2 | But Alexander could not hold it against the Edoni , local tribesmen , which may have given the Athenians the idea that they could move in and plant a colony ( 465 ) . |
| 3 | Larry Cummins unfortunately , could not make it to England for the reunion . |
| 4 | England had a target of 240 in 140 minutes , but could not meet it in the end , and as a result the Test was drawn . |
| 5 | He had learnt something valuable , though he still could not isolate it in his mind . |
| 6 | My source tells me : ‘ The firemen were very helpful and attempted to remove the offending smoke sensor but could not isolate it from the system so the demonstration continued with shorter cooking times and lower temperatures to reduce the flames . |
| 7 | I could not formulate it to myself then but I felt the uniqueness . |
| 8 | However , she could not avoid it at The Tamarisks , for although Fru Møller offered a generous choice of hors d'œuvres and puddings she did not provide a choice of main course and Elisabeth would not have dreamt of placing herself at a disadvantage by drawing attention to her disability and pleading for something easier than steak to swallow . |
| 9 | Naidoo reiterated that the NSC was expecting Sacu to come to a decision and could not ease it for them by offering guarantees of future tours . |
| 10 | However , the man with the radio at the final door worked for TAP , the state airline , not the airport , so he could not open it for us . |
| 11 | The next logical step was to present the bream with a small hook and bait which would be more likely to be right inside their lips when they began to carry it off , but to still retain the heaviness so that they could not manage it with a mere suck . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't — yes , I could do that , ’ said Caspar , who could not do it at all , but could see that there was no other answer to be given . |
| 13 | St Michael could not do it on his own . |
| 14 | Clearly Parliament would last its full five years and the Government could not bring it to a premature end . |
| 15 | ‘ I could not lend it to you . ’ |
| 16 | But when I later tried to find my way back to the dining-room to finish my meal , which should have been a simple thing to do , I just could not locate it at all . |
| 17 | We could not deduce it from within our universe . |
| 18 | As the fellows told the King in September 1687 , " the Electing the Bishop of Oxford " was " directly contrary to their statutes , and to their positive oaths " , and although " they were as ready to obey the K. in all things that lay in their power " , they " could not apprehend it in their power to obey him in this matter " . |
| 19 | — He understood very little of what was said to him in the Outpatient Clinic and could not explain it to his wife . |
| 20 | For if the princes were to take seriously the one task the church now allowed them , they could not achieve it without also enlarging their criminal jurisdiction . |
| 21 | One reason why the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem was so important for Wittgenstein was because he could not dissolve it without revising the view he had taken on this point when he wrote the Tractatus . |
| 22 | The hair on his face was untrimmed , and his nose had spread with drinking , but the weather-hard skin was not the skin of a drunkard , and if the hair on his temples was thinning , you could not see it for the leather fillet he wore . |
| 23 | Though the hardpressed French could not see it at the time , something had in fact gone dramatically wrong with the meticulous German plans ; that is , with the Crown Prince 's plans . |
| 24 | It could produce scarring and for that reason we could not use it on babies ' delicate skin . ’ |
| 25 | They could not use it in real life … |
| 26 | That is true , but it does not issue in the conclusion that we do not ordinarily have and use the given conception of a causal circumstance , or that we could not use it in the confirmation of causal hypotheses . |
| 27 | On paper , Peter could have described his mother 's face in terms of its component parts but he could not visualize it as a whole . |
| 28 | He could not reconcile it with the images he had preserved . |
| 29 | ‘ Of course nothing can be formally arranged just at this present , ’ went on Miss Merchiston , and Theda almost laughed out to see the burgeoning hope in the poor man 's face , ‘ for with dear Mama in this sad condition , I could not reconcile it with my conscience to leave her in the care of other hands . |
| 30 | Brook ruled this out : ‘ I do not , however , favour this suggestion — we could not adopt it without undertaking a review of the Cabinet Committee organisation and that always takes a substantial time , as so many Ministers and others have to be consulted . |