Example sentences of "could n't [vb infin] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He started shaking if you said ‘ Hello ’ too loudly and for several hours after his punishment felt very hungry because he could n't hold a knife and fork long enough to get the food into his mouth . |
| 2 | ‘ He could n't hold a conversation about anything else . |
| 3 | you could n't hold a conversation she said with her , |
| 4 | Even manager Lawrie McMenemy admitted : ‘ There were times when teams could n't hold a candle to England but that 's all changed now . |
| 5 | They 'd been engaged twice but she kept breaking it off because he could n't hold a job down . |
| 6 | This one could n't rape a prostitute if she came and sat on his knee . |
| 7 | Brenda could n't manage a smile , but she shut her lips tight to keep herself from crying — which the Brownie Guider noticed , although she did n't show that she had . |
| 8 | ‘ Sorry , I could n't manage a table . ’ |
| 9 | Margaret could n't inflict a baby on her . |
| 10 | Not he he could n't handle a a roast duck or er could n't roast a duck or anything like that you know . |
| 11 | ‘ You could n't upset a friend , ’ Eve said . |
| 12 | Could n't swim a stroke . |
| 13 | I could n't open a book , attend a seminar , lecture or tutorial , even go to the library , without getting an erection . |
| 14 | I also could n't hide a snigger when the commentator mentioned Batts ' meagre goal rate of one per hundred games . |
| 15 | You were condemned of people then you could n't care a damn about it cos you could n't do anything about it because your methods of running a country was a waste of time . |
| 16 | Welsh could n't grade a bag of Homepride . |
| 17 | But he could n't invent a love that had never been there and he felt that Lou would be better off without him . |
| 18 | ‘ They said there was nothing wrong with me and there should n't be any reason why I could n't carry a child , ’ she says . |
| 19 | That did n't mean I could n't acquire a bird of my own , though . |
| 20 | They did n't know what he was so excited about , and his father was disgusted to find that I could n't draw a footballer ( an unKerridgean species ) . |
| 21 | Before you yawn , this really is a program with a difference — it 's aimed at people like me , who could n't draw a raffle . |
| 22 | Like ‘ I could n't draw a herring off a plate . ’ |
| 23 | Now today … but aside from the cost I could n't make a suit like that today : I could n't get the material . |
| 24 | I , for one , could n't make a 10in bowl in 45 minutes — at least , not one with which I would be satisfied . |
| 25 | At this point , some hawk-eyed philosopher ( hawks have very acute eyes — you could n't make a hawk 's eye by throwing lenses and light-sensitive cells together at random ) will start mumbling something about a circular argument . |
| 26 | Which basically found it could n't make a railway service run and dropped it . |
| 27 | Could n't make a lot with that , could I really ? |
| 28 | I did n't want to hurt either of them and I did n't see why we could n't make a threesome . |
| 29 | Rainey believes he could n't make a corner at GP speed if he merely sat on the bike without pushing down — hard . |
| 30 | There have been many doubts that Gazza could n't make a come-back at club level or even contemplate straddling the international scene again with the outrageous talent that made him a folk hero . |