Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [vb infin] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was struck by two things — the refusal of battered victims to give in to despair , those who could not speak gave me a thumbs up , and the insistence of sorrowing parents and girlfriends that ‘ we 'll never let them win ’ , ’ he said . |
| 2 | But along that bare and silvery rim of sand , any self-respecting wild thing could not fail to see me first . |
| 3 | I often thought her blindness was not entirely physical : she wanted finally to shut her eyes to the sorrows and miseries of the son she still adored , for she could not bear to see me suffering . |
| 4 | When Pope John xxiii visited prison he said to the inmates ‘ You could not come to see me so I have come to see you . ’ |
| 5 | As his next letter , dated 11 January showed , the Spender book could not have reached me before 12 January at the earliest , and I wanted to keep to the length of an article . |
| 6 | ‘ He could not have denied me . |
| 7 | It could not have suited me better . |
| 8 | Were I her honoured guest , she could not have used me more generously . ’ |
| 9 | Brian loved me so much he could n't face hurting me . |
| 10 | Even in his suicide note he could n't bear to tell me . |
| 11 | I immediately got a lot of media attention — Radio One could n't have made me fail . ’ |
| 12 | If he really loved me he could n't have sent me away . |
| 13 | He wanted to be able to give me fifty pounds , and he was suffering from a deep sense of inadequacy because he could n't have given me five . |
| 14 | But surely you could n't have expected me to be carrying something so valuable around with me ? ’ |
| 15 | She could barely breathe , her heart pounding so hard that she had to shout shakily , ‘ Because I knew it meant you could n't have married me for my father 's company , and I wanted to find out why you 'd lied about it . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ He could n't have known I 'd be there . |
| 17 | ‘ He has n't seen me or thought about me for ten years as far as I 'm aware and he could n't have known I 'd be in that house . |
| 18 | ‘ You mean … no , you could n't have known I 'd stoop to bribery ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It 's an even greater pity that you could n't have told me about Ling 's day off , ’ she flared at him . |
| 20 | ‘ I knew , you see , that my mother could n't help leaving me and that , even in her illness , I had a loving role to play . |
| 21 | After seeing the picture of Scafell Massif taken in evening sunshine from the summit of Yewbarrow , I could n't help wishing I 'd been there . |
| 22 | Yes , I , I was in er , I 'm not sure , I , I think I was in the top class in the junior school and er , without boasting , I was a good scholar and I eventually passed to go to the Q M and me dad could n't afford to let me go . |
| 23 | And er but of course they could n't afford to buy me a piano to learn on so |
| 24 | ‘ What about this restaurant that you could n't wait to show me ? ’ |
| 25 | TWO DAYS LATER , Simon Miles could n't wait to get me behind a wheel . |
| 26 | He could n't wait to get me sewn up , could he ? |
| 27 | When I saw her again two weeks later , Joyce could n't wait to tell me what had happened . |