Example sentences of "could n't [vb infin] me [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | age of six months that they could n't handle me any more . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course , we were devastated , but we knew now what had been wrong all along — and at least they could n't blame me any more . ’ |
| 3 | It , it was a really nice size shop Walsall Wood was , but my sister , remember is eighty-two , I asked her , I told her you were coming and I asked her if there was anything she could tell me but er she do could n't tell me much more than myself . |
| 4 | When Dr Maxwell came along a little later , I asked him about it , and although he pooh-poohed it a bit and said it was all a lot of nonsense , I did get him to admit it could n't do me any actual harm to go to the classes and do exercises . |
| 5 | ‘ You could n't lend me some money , Sam ? ’ |
| 6 | I could see them clearly in the light of the foyer but they could n't see me cloaked in the anonymity of Armstrong — and what more anonymous than a black London cab ? |
| 7 | Then I said to them , " Its a pity you could n't find me foster parents " , and the social worker said , " What a brilliant idea ! " |
| 8 | I was in there nearly three years , or two and a half years anyway and , of course , I when I passed to go to the Q M of course , I , I used to do the Headmaster 's and all that but they , they could n't teach me any more because you , you can only have the same lessons as them that have been taught you know . |
| 9 | So well Paul come out , I was talking to Steven and he said I come home last night and he said I could n't park me bloody car up cos there were cars everywhere , and they were all theirs . |