Example sentences of "could n't [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could n't stay at the house … ’ |
| 2 | ‘ When the children are out at school I could n't stay at home all day , ’ she says . |
| 3 | However , he continued by using swank-words that Biff could n't comprend at all . |
| 4 | It sounds more like a yoga class , but Pierre 's technique has helped thousands of people who either could n't swim at all or just did n't like putting their head underwater . |
| 5 | However , she knew that she could n't stand at the window indefinitely , so she left it to complete the task she had on hand . |
| 6 | Although he was hitting the ball all over the place in practice , Seve was figuring out which side of the fairways to miss on a lot of holes , and places where he could n't go at all . |
| 7 | But one evening I found I just could n't go at all . |
| 8 | I thought it must be sex , if I turned my back I did it where he could n't spring at me , and I listened . |
| 9 | I was so disappointed that I could n't speak at the final whistle . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ To begin with , ’ she says , ‘ I could n't cope at all . |
| 11 | She simply could n't keep house — not that that mattered so much — but she could n't cope at all with the children . |
| 12 | I could n't tell at all . |
| 13 | ‘ At nights , ’ said the Canadian , ‘ it was so cold that you could n't sleep at all , and about dawn you 'd hear the shots as they knocked off that day 's quota of Frenchmen out in the yard . ’ |
| 14 | I could n't sleep at Jamila 's place any more for fear of having to face Changez . |
| 15 | I knew MPs who could n't sleep at night because they were going through lobbies voting against their consciences for the Gulf war — to kill 100,000 people — because they believed it would help a Labour victory . |
| 16 | It th , I was depressed , I had swe sweats , night sweats and my husband was all , he could n't sleep at night and it changed it completely ! |
| 17 | well God help her she could n't er , at the end , she could n't eat at all and we were forcing her to eat and she was n't eating at all . |
| 18 | Erm he could n't walk at all . |
| 19 | That 's right , but Locke was turning it on , on occasion and and just could n't strike at all , except for the one wicket , if he bowled quicker and quicker he might have been in trouble . |
| 20 | They must be " conceivable " in terms of our cognitive theory otherwise they could n't arise at all , or if they did , would refute our theory ( see below ) . |
| 21 | Er and obviously we 'll , we 'll we 'll get the response erm a a as it were but erm that 's something I could n't , I could n't answer at this particular time . |
| 22 | So deeply and dreamlessly that when she woke she could n't think at first where she was ; nor place the strange noise at the back of her head . |
| 23 | We just could n't compete at that You need to produce thousands and thousands of these things , to get the economies of scale . |
| 24 | The relief was superb but I could n't move at all . |
| 25 | Most of them even Masklin could understand , but even Grimma had to admit she could n't guess at what they were supposed to mean when you read them all in one go . |
| 26 | But Changez looked so alone — and close up I could see bits of bristle sticking out of his badly shaved face — that even I could n't laugh at him in my usual way . |
| 27 | While she was ponderously explaining what an LOA presentation was , they could n't probe at him . |
| 28 | The proprietor must have thought that they were lovers because he showed them to the most secluded table in the place , talking all the while in rapid French , which she could n't understand at all , but which Piers had no trouble in comprehending . |
| 29 | And told me of the fraternising between British and German troops on Christmas day in the trenches , and I could n't understand at first how you could shoot at someone all week , then make friends with them for one day , knowing you would try and kill each other again the next . |
| 30 | I 'll bet it is , Leith thought , but could n't understand at all why she should all at once feel something that felt mightily like jealousy , at the sudden mental picture of a stream of blondes passing through his flat . |