Example sentences of "could n't [vb infin] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew lots of people had died , but could n't bring myself to … ’ |
| 2 | Could n't bring myself to . ’ |
| 3 | This type of guitar was something of a German speciality , as though the builders , while acknowledging the burgeoning ‘ beat boom ’ market of the time , could n't bring themselves to completely prostitute their art by simply cloning the famous electric guitars of America . |
| 4 | ‘ When my boyfriend tried to touch me , I could n't stand him to be near me . |
| 5 | ‘ There were some strands of a drugs story in California but the reporters could n't link it to smuggling from South America , which was the obvious line of enquiry . |
| 6 | You 'd really need to see them to I mean I could n't explain it to you really . |
| 7 | She could n't explain it to herself . |
| 8 | He could n't confess it to Florrie ; he could never talk about it to anyone except Josh , who had been there with him — and he was not on very good terms with his brother , these days . |
| 9 | I Could n't decide which to card to go , oh yeah that 's it . |
| 10 | I would have to wait until Mum and Dad went out to the pub so we could n't make it to the first . |
| 11 | One pitched out , hitting the ground with a sickening thud ; Erin yelled , trying to hold on , but she fell too , attempting to roll , but she could n't make it to her feet with one shin-bone staring whitely at her through her pant-leg . |
| 12 | He explained he was having a dizzy spell and could n't make it to the doctor 's , so I drove him there . |
| 13 | My suggestion is that the evolution of subcutaneous fat in neonates and post-natal depression is an example of co-evolution and what has happened is mothers are programmed to be depressed for the first few days after birth because in primal conditions when remember this is where evolution set the parameters of human behaviour , in primal conditions it would probably pay a mother to test her new-born offspring to see if it could survive , because if it was defective or if it was sickly , or if there was some reason why that baby could n't make it to adulthood and its own reproductive life , that mother should not invest in it , because that 's her reproductive success . |
| 14 | On Christmas Eve , listening to herself making yet more excuses on the telephone , explaining why they could n't make it to a family party , hearing her sister 's disappointment . |
| 15 | She was so proud of herself for getting that out , grinning wildly at the other woman , that Ruth could n't subject her to more and left them for the tennis courts while they unpacked the dusty Seat that seemed to be packed to the gunnels with baskets of clothes and packages . |
| 16 | No — I could n't justify it to other people . |
| 17 | The next day she said , ‘ I could n't give one to daddy because there were n't enough . |
| 18 | She could n't give herself to Ahmed and could n't keep herself for me , you understand . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Well , ’ the boy said , ‘ he was working up on the roof , so I could n't give it to him . |
| 20 | But she had to step down at one stage because she herself won the top prize of the day — and could n't present it to herself ! |
| 21 | He could n't admit it to Pam , but he was more than a little disturbed by the fact that the Triad enforcer had escaped Springfield 's dragnet , after having almost killed Grant . |
| 22 | Luke Scott meant nothing to her ; he could n't do anything to her if she refused to let him . |
| 23 | He could n't do it to Donald . |
| 24 | You went to the marathon and that 's why we could n't do it to ya . |
| 25 | People who wanted information from him were noting his silence and making their judgments accordingly ; his life seemed to be funnelling down into a pit like so much waste water , and yet he could n't stir himself to the right kind of action . |
| 26 | He could n't throw him to the wolves of his colleagues at the Factory . |
| 27 | And this is what the other blacksmiths had done : they 'd got hold of the horse 's hair and the horse could n't bear it to be touched . |
| 28 | Equally , she could n't expect them to be psychic and intuit when it was okay . |
| 29 | At this stage I could n't expect him to be on the bit , but nor did I want him slopping along . |
| 30 | You could n't expect him to be logical , I should 've learnt that by now . |