Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not go in through the house because of the servants . |
| 2 | He held his automatic out sideways , away from his body so that they could not aim in on its flash , and fired two shots at the left-hand headlight of the Dodge . |
| 3 | The hospital management team for Claybury rejected the idea of the quadrant hospital concept , since this could not tie in with the principle of community care . |
| 4 | Well , I could n't go in without him , so I 'd have to do the same . |
| 5 | He kept interrupting and eventually I told him he could n't sit in on our discussions any more and I explained why . |
| 6 | She could n't give in to intimidation . |
| 7 | but little , people could n't break in for erm |
| 8 | Explains why I could n't hack in from up here . ’ |
| 9 | Sometimes we got to be down at Bullard 's brewery by six o clock in the morning with a load , because they 'd start loading the beer up at six o'clock ; and if you were n't in the yard afore they started you could n't get in at all . |
| 10 | There was even the same poker game going on in the back room , a game I could n't get in on but which I could glimpse every time the same barmaid took refills through . |
| 11 | The travellers threw missiles , and abandoned some of their vehicles on the road when they could n't get in to the three-day event . |
| 12 | but erm , you know , I remember as coming across one or two obstacles and I could n't get in to it I thought if I 'd tried a bit harder , I did n't want to start you know so |