Example sentences of "could not [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frederica was put in mind , mutatis mutandis , starting with the intention , of Miss Havisham bidding the boy Pip to play , of the brewery yard where he had met Herbert Pocket , which ( the yard ) irked her , because she could not properly visualise it . |
| 2 | and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm . |
| 3 | A refusal in such circumstances may well not reflect my employer 's true feelings on the matter , but once having sustained such a dismissal , I could not easily bring it up again . |
| 4 | There was no need to run , for he knew they would be following the horses , and on the highway he could not easily lose them . |
| 5 | Secondly , for historical reasons we did not hold records of National Insurance numbers on the payroll file ( and could not easily add them ) . |
| 6 | My free wing hung from the pole for I could not easily close it without terrible pain ; my eyes were fixed on them . |
| 7 | I could not simply invite you to visit me , situated as you are . ’ |
| 8 | Jasmine was like many horses : sold as a three-year-old because her owner had found that he could not successfully train her . |
| 9 | But he could not say Vivien 's name then , he could not even think it , only look about him fearfully , clenching his hands . |
| 10 | How could such a proud gentleman be so much in the power of one of his servants that he could not even punish her for trying to kill him ? |
| 11 | From their lofty height of existence , it was as if they could not even see him . |
| 12 | She could not even ask him , why ? |
| 13 | She could not even say she truly felt she had had Ferdinando with her those four months . |
| 14 | Fool that he was , he escaped her — his dancing was so much superior to her own that she could not even praise it . |
| 15 | That I could not ever blame her . |
| 16 | Even this kind of intervention in the productive process could not long survive him : the means of musical production were taken more and more into the hands of large commercial interests , while parody as a method retreated into informal niches in the fabric of working-class life . |
| 17 | She knew you could not possibly manage it all on your own . |
| 18 | I could not possibly tell him the truth , as that would scare the daylights out of him . |
| 19 | But I felt I could not possibly meet him again . |
| 20 | If what Flynn said was even half true , they could not possibly spin it out until then . |
| 21 | If this was jewellery , she could not possibly accept it , no matter how appropriate it might be for the gown she was wearing . |
| 22 | It was as if a woman who thus lowered herself disowned her right to be considered a person , a soul ; as if it would be no sin to take advantage of her lust because one could not possibly soil her any further . |
| 23 | He 'd played in some eminently forgettable horror movies and I felt I could not seriously consider him . |
| 24 | A man not incapable of irony , Thorkel Fóstri , it seemed , could not necessarily detect it in somebody else . |
| 25 | They could not still want her now . |
| 26 | The History Eighth , which had assimilated G. K. Chesterton and E. C. Bentley immediately before Thomas 's short stay there , could not quite swallow him , nor he them . |
| 27 | NEEDING four points from the six singles to beat Scotland on the opening day of the Womens Home Internationals at Hermitage Ireland could not quite bring it off and lost in the end by 5–4 . |
| 28 | Even the sight of their own front garden could not quite depress her . |
| 29 | Some thought , some fragment of memory was tugging at him but he could not quite catch it , as so often these days . |
| 30 | She spun round , but she could not quite see him . |