Example sentences of "could n't [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lee could n't with the dog . |
| 2 | As I heard the words I knew they were wrong , but could n't for the life of me remember the dolmen 's proper name . |
| 3 | The Marshal could n't for the life of him remember that . |
| 4 | Because he could n't for the life of him imagine what he personally could have done to her . |
| 5 | That evening , I went to see King Lear at the Old Vic , but I was unable to shake off my self-pity and I could n't for the life of me see what the old git was moaning about . |
| 6 | You know , when I was bringing up my children in the early seventies I read about the the mergence of the new working woman , you know , how to balance a career and a home and children , and I could n't for the life of me think what was new about this working woman ! |
| 7 | Harris knew that something had happened but he could n't for the life of him think what it might be . |
| 8 | ‘ I could n't for the life of me remember the English name for this vehicle and certainly did n't know what the Russian name was , so I asked him what he would call it . ’ |
| 9 | I could n't for the life of me understand what Emily Lightbody might see in him , except an eternal good time . |
| 10 | Guy had always liked tall women , preferably those built on rather buxom lines , but right now he could n't for the life of him remember why . |
| 11 | and one of the girls who I was speaking to , oh I 'd like to do that , she could n't for the , the one that we 're doing |
| 12 | There had to be something she could say , something sharp and snappy , tailor-made to disabuse him of that idea , but was n't it just typical that she could n't for the life of her think what it was ? |
| 13 | So you would still be able to identify targets but those targets may become a bit more general , I E because in the past the landlord as a class had always sided with the Kuomintang then i it gives you the opportunity to go back and attack them , almost the landlords per se in a way you could n't during the Japanese war because clearly loyal landlords were fighting the Japanese . |
| 14 | There were also many years of frustration in my youth when the business was very small and I was bubbling with ideas , bubbling with energy and desperate to get things to happen but could n't in the very dull environment of the 1950s and early 1960s . |
| 15 | But I could n't in the end ! |