Example sentences of "could n't [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He might be amazingly good to look at , he might be brilliant company , he might possibly be an amazing lover , though she could n't truthfully testify to that in depth , but jokes and … and sex were n't everything . |
| 2 | So now he could n't even bear to be with her . |
| 3 | And I could n't even talk to you about them . |
| 4 | I could n't even go to the toilet without her . |
| 5 | When he was at school , but he used to go home for the Christmas holidays and nobody saw him again till about March cos he was , he could n't even get to Rothbury he was snowed in . |
| 6 | One could hardly assume that he had not gone to church out of piety and because it was Ash Wednesday , Ianthe thought , but it was rather puzzling and disturbing to think that she could n't even attend to her devotions in peace . |
| 7 | She could n't even write to her , lest her letters be opened by that two-faced ugly bitch of a matron . |
| 8 | My mind was so wrapped round with skeins of my own distant past that I could n't immediately come to grips with the demands of the present . |
| 9 | Old Granny Fordham , who lived in a lonely cottage on the Enderley estate , could n't afford luxuries like butter and eggs , and could n't easily get to the shops in the village , so it would be doing a real service to take Mrs. Grant 's gift to her . |
| 10 | On the other hand , T. Rex might have looked really good but everything else about them was so naïve and teenybopperish that you could n't really admit to your mates that you liked them . |
| 11 | Well I I 'd could n't really swear to anything of that description , but it was it was before the er er old age pensions came out because I remember my Grandmother lived with us and er I remember the first week that she drew her five shillings old age pension . |
| 12 | Andy 's a real mate he just kept saying straight heads er for all the times when I might have said oh , I could n't really talk to some people last night and he 'd say what you mean straight heads ? he 's right . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've never been into that ‘ I wandered lonely as a cloud ’ type poetry , could n't really get to grips with it . |
| 14 | People could n't really afford to that then . |
| 15 | or saying we could n't really take to their child , |
| 16 | Unfortunately , the only pot-bellied old man they ran into was clutching a plastic container of meths , and our heroes could n't quite sink to such a Lollapalooza level of debauchery … |
| 17 | ‘ Raymond 's family could n't quite come to terms with eating something sweet at the start of a meal , ’ said Ilsa , laughing . |
| 18 | We could n't quite run to a good boarding-school , so we chose Burleigh . ’ |
| 19 | Possibly because we do n't take an ‘ oh , that could n't possibly happen to me ’ attitude to the former . |
| 20 | I could n't ever go to the police . |
| 21 | One died recently , but she could n't ever come to terms with the fact that her house had been burgled , and that the er , that some of her most valued contents had been taken . |