Example sentences of "could n't [vb infin] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think that either Floy could n't leave them for some reason , or — ’ |
| 2 | You could n't leave them in those days because there was no social security . |
| 3 | Almost that , and I want to say that I have some sympathy for the lady who has children and just could n't entertain them for the day . |
| 4 | she said yeah , she , erm , the reason that women who does the earrings could n't make them for me , was that she buys all the parts , well the flower earrings she makes , she buys all these parts and she ex assembles them which ever parts you want |
| 5 | ‘ But I told them if we could n't beat them without a boom , we did n't deserve to be in the finals . ’ |
| 6 | Sometimes our bodies and minds seek excuses to experience griefs that we may have put aside or denied because we could n't face them at the time . |
| 7 | The registry office could n't marry them at such short notice and they must wait until the following day . |
| 8 | But , no matter how much Steven made his camera swoop and glide and giddy-up around the sets , he could n't stop them from looking like boring old panto scenery , especially since the galleon never put out to sea ( which would have been too mega-expensive ) , and the Lost Boys ' camp was crammed full of Starlight Express -style skate-boarding tracks . |
| 9 | They were not the illegal so we could n't stop them from delivering them . |
| 10 | Equally , she could n't expect them to be psychic and intuit when it was okay . |
| 11 | You could n't fetch them from the pool . |
| 12 | Could n't nick them for it could you ? |
| 13 | ‘ We thought they were most unusual and attractive and could n't resist them for our own house , ’ says Sue . |
| 14 | Bill knows he must go to John 's now and explain why he could n't take them to Disneyland , clear it all up before John dies . |
| 15 | Some of them had to walk because you they they could n't take them in in in any conveyance at all because er it was over what they call the viaducts , you know and the big rushes and reeds , I told you about a chap hitting them did n't I ? |
| 16 | She could n't let them into her mind . |
| 17 | We could n't fire them in 1945 because we ran out of fuel . |
| 18 | My dear chap you could n't put them in a work of fiction . |
| 19 | Well you could n't put them in the car could you ? |
| 20 | Mum was pleased as punch when she found that Mary had bought us new clothes , but she was not so pleased when Mary told her she could n't see them until the day of the wedding and took them straight up and locked them in her trunk . |
| 21 | That is , is the colour rising up from underneath in an individuating way , or is it a light cast from down er from on top by the one , which then could n't individuate them with respect to people for instance . |
| 22 | They had handcuffs on me and I 've still got marks on my hands — you can see — where the handcuffs were put on so tight that when I got to the station they could n't get them off me . |
| 23 | I could n't get them in there . |
| 24 | but I ca I , I could n't get them in , in a thirteen . |
| 25 | I could n't convince them at the other end that I needed an ambulance because I was outside the hospital . |
| 26 | No , she could n't help them at all . |
| 27 | ‘ If they were on the road we could n't hear them from the house , and I truly doubt that anyone would go home via the graveyard and the woods . |
| 28 | Then , shaking her head : ‘ No , no — he could n't read them from above . ’ |