Example sentences of "could not [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew that he still whistled sometimes , but the bogeyman could not scare him any more . |
| 2 | She could not stand it another minute . |
| 3 | But you could not blame it all on the place or on the drugs scene . |
| 4 | She could not tell him about Havvie ; neither could she speak the lie to him , not to Dr Neil , but she could not tell him the truth , for that would mean telling him who she was , and she could not tell him that , not here , not now ; it would spoil everything between them if he knew that she was the spoiled and pampered American Princess . |
| 5 | Alexander asked if the doctor knew what that something was , but he could not give him any answer . |
| 6 | I had hoped that on my twenty-first birthday I would discover more about my future , but Mr Jaggers explained that he could not give me any more information , except that from now on I would have five hundred pounds a year to spend as I liked . |
| 7 | You could not help them all . |
| 8 | Tom Dreaper could not convince him that racing was a business to be taken seriously , and Foinavon had been sold for 2,000 guineas . |
| 9 | Susan broke off and leaned back , looking so tired that Breeze could not ask her any of the things she naturally wanted to know , about their father 's last weeks of life . |
| 10 | Following a short interview about the further offence , the officer whom he had requested to see told him that he could not ask him any questions about the early offence for which he had already been charged but said that he could make a statement if he wished . |
| 11 | Further , employers could not have it both ways ; if they sought summary conviction before justices of the peace , they could hardly have had penalties of a harshness imposable only by the courts . |
| 12 | That she would you know throw him out so that she could just could n't tolerate him any more . |
| 13 | So they could n't leave them all standing outside . |
| 14 | She could n't leave them any money because all she had was an annuity that would come to an end when she died , but Mister Johnny 's got a little bit that his parents left him and Hepzibah makes some from the poultry , so they should have just enough . |
| 15 | Could n't leave it any later . ’ |
| 16 | Eventually they were changing it around almost every hour until the Headmaster could n't stand it any more . |
| 17 | Eventually , I could n't stand it any more . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've dropped out — I could n't stand it any more . ’ |
| 19 | Eventually Angalo could n't stand it any more . |
| 20 | Finally , they could n't stand it any more . |
| 21 | Lewis could n't stand it any more and ran out to a flatter legbreak from Mushtaq , the nimble Latif completing the stumping . |
| 22 | He hit me a lot , but I suffered it till I could n't stand it any more . |
| 23 | She could n't stand it any more . |
| 24 | ‘ I just could n't stand it any more back in Bes Pelargic , ’ Twoflower went on blithely , ‘ sitting at a desk all day , just adding up columns of figures , just a pension to look forward to at the end of it … where 's the romance in that ? |
| 25 | ‘ I could n't stand it any more — hearing him howl , I mean . |
| 26 | age of six months that they could n't handle me any more . |
| 27 | I just could n't handle it any more . |
| 28 | It has a weird effect , so bad one day that they had to give me valium to take off my bandages because I could n't handle it any more . |
| 29 | ‘ Of course , we were devastated , but we knew now what had been wrong all along — and at least they could n't blame me any more . ’ |
| 30 | For the long journey to the Pole , they needed a lot of food , and they could n't carry it all with them . |