Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sonar made interesting contacts but could not identify them directly , while passive underwater photography ( photographing whatever passes a given spot ) had the potential to reveal essential detail but could not be expected to make contact without a much sounder basis for deploying the cameras . |
| 2 | But to his surprise the drink was light , young , and faintly flavoured with honey , together with another taste , so subtle that he could not identify it . |
| 3 | He could not mention it because it was not known in the Latin West before the revival of learning in the ‘ renaissance of the twelfth century ’ ( a useful term due to the American medievalist Charles Homer Haskins , who introduced it in 1927 ) . |
| 4 | She asked him why he could not leave her alone , in view of what the other man had already done to her , but he turned off the lights and told her to undress . |
| 5 | Even if you were only a few hundred miles away instead of a few thousand I could not leave her . |
| 6 | He could not leave her here even had he the courage to go up into that vast nothingness above … |
| 7 | But the priest said she could not live till morning , so I could not leave her . ’ |
| 8 | However , he knew he could not leave her now . |
| 9 | She would not , could not leave him for this boy ! |
| 10 | I could not leave him now . |
| 11 | But having got so far , she could not leave it there . |
| 12 | She could not leave it . |
| 13 | Hebbert and McFall do , Hebbert decided , and he persuaded his partner they could not leave it at that after such a long flog up the mountainside . |
| 14 | They could not leave it because their reproductive processes depended on it . |
| 15 | ‘ Good God , there was a time I saw him — still but a child , to be sure — playing his fingers in her hair with such warmth and love in his face , such concentrated attention , as if it so fascinated him he could not leave it alone . |
| 16 | But she knew then that , plagued and plagued again by the same thought during her fretful waking night-time hours , she just could not leave it . |
| 17 | Although ‘ t is easy to see that he could not leave you behind , nor take his eyes off you for a moment . |
| 18 | On 5 September last year his girlfriend , Ann Tierney , could not wake him after staying the night with him and he was dead on arrival at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary . |
| 19 | I could not finish them until after Dana had left for the States , when I would sit day after day beside my desk , trying to write , while on the other side of Avondale Buildings the children screamed and shrieked in the playground . |
| 20 | Parents may shun sport , but one could not accuse them of doing the same with education and , as Haringey 's Clarence Callynder pointed out : ‘ Some overdo it ; they push their kids too much at school . |
| 21 | My family moved to Britain , and because of the distance and the expense I could not visit them . |
| 22 | Within the constraints of proof changes I could not disentangle it . |
| 23 | As she ran along the track to the road , she had an eerie sense that she was acting out something she had done before , but she could not pin it down until she reached the road and turned right , towards the village . |
| 24 | He knew that he still whistled sometimes , but the bogeyman could not scare him any more . |
| 25 | She could not stand it another minute . |
| 26 | His fingers were bloody and in his eyes there was such despair that I could not stand it and went out into the filthy courtyard ’ . |
| 27 | It was the truth , and he could not stand it . |
| 28 | Those who could not stand it returned home worn out by the virulence of anti-Irish racism which they experienced from English people . |
| 29 | I could not stand it . |
| 30 | and I 've had that taken out because I could n't , I just could not stand it especially in hot weather ! |