Example sentences of "could not [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not a tall man and was soon almost dwarfed by his five lively , wryly humorous sons , who avoided him as far as possible and could not leave home soon enough . |
| 2 | The easterners could not complain too bitterly while their exports to Western Europe were growing by double-digit amounts . |
| 3 | Perhaps I am so preconditioned by tables that I could not reflect quickly enough that there are other ways of getting the answer . |
| 4 | ‘ The pencil could not go fast enough over the paper , so quickly changed the scenes . ’ |
| 5 | He could not go fast enough now to satisfy him . |
| 6 | They are largely women who have got to the top in other careers and found they could not go any further . |
| 7 | I accept that the right hon. Gentleman could not go any further at that time , but is he aware that his argument that a change in the defence of provocation might allow for revenge killings is wrong and invalid because juries would not accept it in the case of revenge killings ? |
| 8 | Because of his Cartesianism , Malebranche could not go so far as to say that material objects were not really extended or in motion , but Pierre Bayle had argued that such restraint was unjustifiable . |
| 9 | Even Amabel could not go so far as to trouble Gemma . |
| 10 | We then asked him , if he could not go so far as to meet us in full , to introduce an empowering provision . |
| 11 | ‘ You could not go far wrong being bedded by an angel ! ’ |
| 12 | I could not go there very often , however , for such an expedition cost a week 's salary . |
| 13 | Without the work of these dedicated men and women the Church could not progress as rapidly as it does . |
| 14 | They had lived together for a long time , but the sister was now reaching the conclusion that the situation could not continue much longer : |
| 15 | I could not move fast enough to support him . |
| 16 | He found that personal exchanges with the French could not flow so freely : interruptions for translation disturbed the train of thought . |
| 17 | The train was braking hard now , but Harry could not think fast enough . |
| 18 | Left Book Club groups were capable of immense effort on occasion , but they could not reach as wide an audience as the Local Parties and were unsuited to the work of winning over Labour opinion by consistent effort . |
| 19 | Some of us could not walk quite straight , for when ‘ Peter ’ really got going our foundations shook . |
| 20 | Bicycle Thieves did not sound very promising , but he could not return home now . |
| 21 | Brunel of course was deeply involved in the completion stage of the massive ‘ Great Eastern ’ — the largest ship the world had so far seen , and could not devote quite as much time to the project as the others . |
| 22 | Some of the earlier investors have found they could not adjust quickly enough ; others have been severely battered by innovative competitors but managed to fight back . |
| 23 | All explanations , all excuses were crude and deadly , and she could not bring herself to make them , but she could not sit there either , contemplating her own slow lapse from grace . |
| 24 | I could not sit there any longer . |
| 25 | But he just could not give very very very difficult to actually deal with . |
| 26 | On a more phenomenological level , if we wanted some visual analogue to the associationist view of mental life we could not do much better than think of one of those ‘ psychedelic ’ slide-shows popular in the late 1960s , in which lights were projected through oil , producing coloured globs which met , merged and repelled in a series of kaleidoscopic patterns . |
| 27 | I could not do so honourably . |
| 28 | It stated clearly that a flat rate charge could not cope with the scale of local authority expenditure and that it could not do so fairly . |
| 29 | No , I really could not stay there any longer . |
| 30 | Newry could not capitalise any further on this advantage . |