Example sentences of "could not [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I could n't love him more than I do , ’ she replied . |
| 32 | The Labrador was not due in till later in the morning as the owners could n't make it any earlier . |
| 33 | Alas , we could n't visit them all . |
| 34 | Alas , we could n't visit them all . |
| 35 | But that 's it , on a good day we could give you ten only , and we could n't give you any more . |
| 36 | Yeah , I mean , we , we , we could n't , certainly could n't give you any more than five . |
| 37 | And she could n't give you any stronger than a certain level could she ? |
| 38 | It was then that I decided to tell each woman in my own time , taking each one in turn — I could n't tell them all at once . |
| 39 | She did , of course , but she could n't tell him that . |
| 40 | It , it was a really nice size shop Walsall Wood was , but my sister , remember is eighty-two , I asked her , I told her you were coming and I asked her if there was anything she could tell me but er she do could n't tell me much more than myself . |
| 41 | I I could n't tell you that . |
| 42 | Er my favourite thing er well I could n't tell you that . |
| 43 | I could n't fit them all in . |
| 44 | Léonie could n't watch them any more , she was being pulled on to the narrow track between the trees . |
| 45 | When Dr Maxwell came along a little later , I asked him about it , and although he pooh-poohed it a bit and said it was all a lot of nonsense , I did get him to admit it could n't do me any actual harm to go to the classes and do exercises . |
| 46 | Ideally we might have preferred a juvenile actress , but with the restrictions on the hours children can work in Television we knew we could n't do it that way . ’ |
| 47 | ‘ Oh no , you could n't do it that way otherwise the horse would be certain to win . ’ |
| 48 | Well it holding it in pawn , waiting for somebody to ask him to have a drink , and invariably somebody would but if they did ask him they 'd always ask him back next time you know if they could n't do it this time . |
| 49 | ‘ He could n't do it any more . ’ |
| 50 | it was being reorganized and the lady who did it could n't do it any more and would one of us like to take the |
| 51 | I could n't fancy it this year , you know , but er |
| 52 | ‘ You could n't lend me some money , Sam ? ’ |
| 53 | I listened with fascination to this insider viewpoint , and the moody Miss Brickell suddenly became a real person , not a pathetic collection of dry bones , but a mixed-up pulsating young woman full of strong urges and stronger guilts who 'd piled on too much pressure , loaded her need of penitence and her heavy desires and perhaps finally her pregnancy onto someone who could n't bear it all , and who 'd seen a violent way to escape her . |
| 54 | I just could n't bear it any more . |
| 55 | Then raging darkness overwhelmed her and she was being smashed , pounded to pieces , and it would be better when she died properly and could n't feel it any more . |
| 56 | Yeah , yeah , oh yes of course a lot of the people were , that were in the we were in under the balcony but they were up to their knees in plaster and goodness knows what that had come out of the roof they could n't move it all dropped round them . |
| 57 | And yet , despising her , Luke could n't resist her any more than she could him — but she alone had love to justify the weakness . |
| 58 | I do n't know how many rooms the Star Zoo had ; I could n't count them all . |
| 59 | Over the years , Anne had put up with an awful lot from me and she had now finally decided she could n't take it any more . |
| 60 | I 'd had enough ; I could n't take it any more . |