Example sentences of "could n't [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he could n't tolerate incompetence . ’ |
| 2 | From now on , she knew , she could n't set foot wrong . |
| 3 | Only thing she were n't chuffed about is she could n't cash cheque , it had to go all through bank and everything . |
| 4 | It was not that she could n't contemplate marriage to anyone other than Will . |
| 5 | He could n't dismiss the images , he could n't stay Time 's hand as it turned page after page of that memory-album until tears flooded his eyes at the scenes recalled : his mother , her brown hair screwed into a bun at the back of her head , taking him to see a house at Edgeworthstown where she said a famous woman writer had lived ; he had n't paid much attention , not being interested in books then , but when he grew older he read Maria Edgeworth 's novels and went again for himself to gaze at her home . |
| 6 | Charles could n't leave Dad to face it all alone . |
| 7 | I could n't leave Elinor on her own . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I left here , telling myself I could n't be lady Anne 's companion 'cos I could n't leave mama on her own . |
| 9 | He could n't recognize love . |
| 10 | " Ah could n't bring Duke , " he muttered . |
| 11 | Lou Macari signed a three year contract with Celtic this afternoon then told Scotland Today he would walk away if he could n't bring success to the club in that time . |
| 12 | However , Miranda , who could n't stand indecision , was n't the sort of woman to be fobbed off for much longer . |
| 13 | Nigel could n't stand poetry of any sort — well , perhaps limericks or his own early efforts . |
| 14 | And I could n't stand physics , I just sort of |
| 15 | I could n't stand chemistry anyway , could n't understand it at all , the atoms and the neutrons and all that . |
| 16 | But you could n't drape prettiness over Timothy Gedge . |
| 17 | ‘ He could n't handle Mum , he could n't handle me , ’ John says . |
| 18 | Why did people — males in particular — assume that just because she was young , blonde and female , she could n't handle pressure ? |
| 19 | You could n't blame Sorrel , I suppose . |
| 20 | You could n't invent stuff like this . |
| 21 | Obviously er if er you came in in the morning and you were n't feeling to good , for whatever reason , then you could n't slack back and say och well I 'll just take my time with this . |
| 22 | Sean , you could n't have been that shit-faced that you could n't go upto the Roger and ask him whether he was Roger or not ? |
| 23 | He could n't waste time in useless persuasion . |
| 24 | ‘ As Prime Minister , I could n't waste time having any internal arguments . |
| 25 | Dick really could n't make head or tail of the place and resorted to believing that he had no personal problems , and that the Centre had little to do with cures , which was true . |
| 26 | The scheme the mother and this brother were plotting entailed Sien somehow , and though he could n't make head nor tail of it he feared the worst . |
| 27 | I could n't make head nor tail of this . |
| 28 | They could n't make head or tail of me , could n't think what was wrong with me . |
| 29 | Rosie said something about keys but I could n't make head or tail of it . ’ |
| 30 | There was some sort of monitor with dials which I could n't make head nor tail of , two drip stands with tubes — one lot going up her nose , the other into her arm — and her right leg was coated in plaster and suspended in mid air by a pulley contraption on which the Spanish Inquisition probably held the patent . |