Example sentences of "could n't [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , particularly since it was only half right , or you could n't exactly tell which half , not very clearly , so if it 's half by Freud , and er , it was a book erm , on erm , a controversial figure arguing over very controversial pieces , and I think the psychoanalytic study did n't want to have anything to do with it , and er , er , one of the reviews of the psychoanalytic journal that said that this is the kind of book that gets psychoanalysis a bad name . |
| 2 | Of course , Sar n't Major James Graham Biggleswade could n't exactly go back to Blighty and expect them to hang out the welcome mat in Fulham , not after that tricky bit of bloody buggering business down in the Falklands — oh , excuuuuse meeee , the Mal -bloody-buggering- vinas — back in ‘ 81 . |
| 3 | Mr Masters was quite clear that he had first seen the blue BMW late on the Saturday evening , ten days before , pointing out that , while you could n't exactly complain , it had made access to his own forecourt space a little difficult , or at least when there was already another car on the forecourt , which there mostly was , that being Mrs Masters 's runabout . |
| 4 | I could n't exactly see you two clicking . |
| 5 | I was busting and I was there going I said and I could n't exactly say can I go to the toilet ? |
| 6 | In the meantime , since she could n't physically throw him out , she would find somewhere else to stay for the night . |
| 7 | He might be amazingly good to look at , he might be brilliant company , he might possibly be an amazing lover , though she could n't truthfully testify to that in depth , but jokes and … and sex were n't everything . |
| 8 | In fact you could n't adequately express yourself in English you were just better to shut up . |
| 9 | could n't particularly blame a landlord for that . |
| 10 | She could n't even control her trembling limbs and chattering teeth . |
| 11 | I could n't always swi , I could n't even switch a light till |
| 12 | alright just shut up a minute , I 'm talking to ya , so she said afterwards oh I says that was good were n't it could n't even switch the machine on and she said it does n't matter does it , she said it 's not what happens its the way you deal with it , and I made a joke of it and I said to him oh this is good i n't it ? relax you 're in safe hands I ca n't even switch the machine on , but anyway I did it in the end and he was alright , and he said thank you very much , that was , you were very good , you were very kind , cos it is frightening and one thing I said to him do n't hold your breath , because people think when their having an E C G they 've got ta hold their breath for some reason , just lie there take a deep breath and do n't breathe again but you 've never had one so you would n't no , I 'm just going to mix this up |
| 13 | She could n't even feel a pulse when she laid two fingers beneath the angle of his jaw . |
| 14 | " When I holed the putt to win , I could n't even feel my hands . |
| 15 | She could n't even feel resentful that he slept so peacefully after she had suffered a sleepless night of angst . |
| 16 | She could n't even hope to keep that from him , since he 'd insisted she fax him details of the takings every week . |
| 17 | She was caught in the middle of a terrible ghastly nightmare , and one she could n't even hope to escape from by waking up . |
| 18 | He said they were so shocking he could n't even bear to repeat them . ’ |
| 19 | So now he could n't even bear to be with her . |
| 20 | It now seemed that Rose could n't even bear to touch him . |
| 21 | The ground pigeons will laugh themselves sick when I tell them you could n't even break your own bones — you 've broken enough of theirs ! " |
| 22 | Nothing mattered except protecting her sister 's identity , and she could n't even do that . |
| 23 | He could n't even do your |
| 24 | Well you could have stuck , you know , seven or eight years of age you could n't even do it then in case it hurt the kid 's mother or something like that , or whatever it was . |
| 25 | We would n't see it coming , we could n't shoot it down when we did and we could n't even chase the fucking thing home after it had hit us . |
| 26 | ‘ One of them , ’ he recalled , ‘ had a son so paralysed that the boy could n't even laugh . |
| 27 | ‘ Could n't even tell you that , he kept his hat on all the time . |
| 28 | Not only was the vocabulary well beyond me , but I could n't even tell what my instructor was driving at . |
| 29 | I could n't even tell you that now . |
| 30 | Last year I had a place bet on the winner , I could n't even tell you what it was now . |