Example sentences of "could not just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caspar was shouting to her not to struggle , because it would only mean she would sink quicker , but Fenella was struggling fiercely , because she could not just give in . |
| 2 | You could not just say , Christ will help you bear it . |
| 3 | You could n't just walk into it casually , as he had done , drop home from the office and decide to eradicate her on the spur of the moment . |
| 4 | Just the hint of a vengeful smile accompanied the massage that we could n't just walk off with that there dog — we 'd have to take him to the parcels office and sign for him . |
| 5 | I could n't just walk out on them after three years with the organization . |
| 6 | She asked me for nothing more , she did n't want to cause me problems , but I could n't just walk away from her . |
| 7 | But she could n't just walk out of the old woman 's life , not without preparing her first . |
| 8 | Well there was always the parlour , you must have the parlour and er you , you had two living rooms and the one was the parlour and there was a cellar underneath the parlour and er the stairs used to come in from the back and go up , up the stairs over the entrance to the cellar but the stairs used to run up there underneath the stairs was the entrance to the cellar , there was a door , so that you could n't just walk down the cellar without opening the door you see , but apart from that there was er there was just the two , two bedrooms . |
| 9 | But then you could n't just switch it on and listen to the music like the wireless . |
| 10 | ‘ I could n't just throw away all the work I 'd already done ! ’ |
| 11 | You could n't just sit down in a street . |
| 12 | But she could n't just sit there and let him criticise her choice of friends . |
| 13 | It looked like a dull day outside but she could n't just sit in her room doing nothing . |
| 14 | I could n't just sit and watch them dying . ’ |
| 15 | He could n't just sit here and do nothing . |
| 16 | Well I could n't just tell you honestly about that but I think the riveters decided who got what , you know . |
| 17 | You 'd need to , you could n't just bring somebody in . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd like to be busy and I could n't just stop my life after tennis . |
| 19 | Enoch Powell derided the bill as an absurdity : you could n't just invent a second chamber . |
| 20 | You could n't just invent something like that . |
| 21 | Something about them made him feel deeply afraid , but he knew that he could n't just stand there . |
| 22 | She could n't just stand by ; it was all or nothing . |
| 23 | Actually , I 'd been waiting for somebody else but I just happened to be on hand and I could n't just stand there and watch her struggle with all those boxes , suitcases , typewriters , bicycles , stereo systems and so on . |
| 24 | You could n't just clock off after your beat . |
| 25 | ‘ I said you could n't just give them tea and biscuits , ’ he says . |
| 26 | Clare , walking with a stick now , though still in braces , had come to London to lend me moral support — Father , of course , could n't just leave his job at will . |
| 27 | He could n't just leave it like that . |
| 28 | But he could n't just leave her at the station . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't worry about me , ’ he 'd said , but then he could n't just leave it at that and so he 'd added , ‘ Will you be all right ? ’ |
| 30 | I could n't just leave it . |