Example sentences of "could n't [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact I refused to believe it and went back to check , feeling ‘ they could n't mean me ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , she could n't leave me then , ’ Peter replied . |
| 3 | They could n't sack me , though . |
| 4 | I could n't stand me 'ome gettin' tore ter pieces , an' they 're so smelly , ’ she moaned . |
| 5 | ‘ I actually found the crowd quite exciting , ’ Vega told Sounds , ‘ It 's just a shame that the audience , the promoters and Pop Should Eat Itself ( sic ) could n't handle me ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ He could n't handle Mum , he could n't handle me , ’ John says . |
| 7 | ‘ I actually found the crowd quite exciting , ’ Vega told Sounds , ‘ It 's just a shame that the audience , the promoters and Pop Should Eat Itself ( sic ) could n't handle me ! ’ |
| 8 | age of six months that they could n't handle me any more . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Too bad you could n't make me a mother . ’ |
| 11 | I was just old enough to become crazy about cowboy films , but even handsome Buck Jones could n't make me like Auntie Julie any better . |
| 12 | Daine could n't make me feel guilty . |
| 13 | Severe amnesia could n't make me forget you . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been an Overseas ’ Corporation Executive for the last ten years and I 've always been told that the reason the Corporation could n't pay me the salary it paid to Americans doing similar work was because my salary had to be related to British salary scales . ’ |
| 15 | He said he could n't pay me . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ He said that he could n't pay me because he had to maintain his cash flow for the London opening , but what he would do was to let me regard what he owed me as a stake in the show . ’ |
| 17 | My yesterday and said that well my cousin said they 've got ta pay twenty pounds but my friend said there is a those who could n't pay I du n no whether it 'll do any good but I should think some of them |
| 18 | She could n't protect me , could she ? |
| 19 | It was the part of Sabbo in Rope ; mind you , I had been offered two leading roles at other reps that could n't give me the vital Equity card — so Sabbo it was . |
| 20 | She could n't give me times , dates , anything . |
| 21 | You could n't give me a few more equations just |
| 22 | Margaret , they could n't give me on just now . |
| 23 | ‘ Because he could n't give me names , only descriptions . |
| 24 | Margaret , they could n't give me on just now . |
| 25 | No , she could n't give me erm the the , the one |
| 26 | ‘ One Sierra I looked at had done 112,000 miles but the dealer could n't tell me whether it had been once or twice around the clock . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The compass could tell me in which direction I had to go — it could n't tell me what lay between where I was , and where I wanted to get to . |
| 29 | He was trying to , he was doing a laugh laughing fit last night , he was , he , he could n't tell me what he was trying to tell me . |
| 30 | What was so dreadful that you could n't tell me ? |