Example sentences of "could n't [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , I knew I could n't squat for fifteen minutes on a bed or a floor . |
| 2 | She could n't rail into thin air . |
| 3 | Lydia thought moodily that she could n't hope to be as boring as Dr Wyn if she tried all night . |
| 4 | I thought we 'd been getting on pretty well but as Father 's Day approached , Joe made it clear that I could n't hope to be any more than just second best |
| 5 | ‘ We could n't hope for more . |
| 6 | Dalgliesh felt impatient for the arrival of the forensic biologist , although he knew he could n't hope for the answer , not yet . |
| 7 | You could n't hope for a clearer sign of how things have changed in new music over the last decade or so than the sight of five eminent young , or young-ish , British composers applying their ingenuity to the art of writing divertimentos ( two of them even opting for late eighteenth-century period instrument ensembles ) as curtain raisers for last year 's Glyndebourne Mozart performances ( the promised Don Giovanni serenade by Oliver Knussen never materialized ) . |
| 8 | " But we ca n't find four thousand in a week And , with things as they are , we could n't hope for a bank loan even if … " |
| 9 | He could do nothing more until the various reports he 'd asked for came in , and he could n't hope for anything much before late afternoon . |
| 10 | One surely could n't hope for greater understanding . ’ |
| 11 | And that caught the interest of everyone straight away er , budgeting , how to be able to look at banking etcetera , and I said well and I want you to do that first so I do n't mind mainly because I was gon na work wi with Anne about the , with the environments , and then it 's science , could n't cover with the with the environment that she would like me in tutorial to do and er she has n't , well it 's not her now , unfortunately , I think it 's Sue that is supposed to be working with me cos I want to do something on recycling of rubbish etcetera within the school and do a big sort of er project on it . |
| 12 | ‘ That was partly because you could n't hold on given scenes in the way you would normally do . |
| 13 | er reading and I ha , I could n't hold of enough of the material in the time I 'd got to write the essay so I would n't have studied enough , so I did this one on machines , and I got hold of two good books . |
| 14 | Well they could n't score in the Premier League last season which is why they came down , they still ca n't score . |
| 15 | I said you could n't manage on your own . |
| 16 | we , no we broaden it i i , they they just could n't manage on the sea ones . |
| 17 | Then she tried to heave herself up onto the driving seat but could n't manage without Dad 's help . |
| 18 | We like to think we 're indispensable , that the flotilla could n't manage without us . |
| 19 | Now he knew he could n't manage without a butler . |
| 20 | She definitely could n't stay with us : Dad would get in shit with Anwar . |
| 21 | But he admitted : ‘ I could n't stay with his pace and I had to get away and look after myself . ’ |
| 22 | I could n't stay with the Sisters because of Andrew ; it would be betraying their trust . |
| 23 | She said I could n't stay with her , that her aunty was in the house , things like that , so I had nowhere to go . |
| 24 | I could n't stay with him any longer : there was no more time . |
| 25 | I could n't stay for one day . ’ |
| 26 | But she was in such a hurry that she just could n't stay for long enough to help me with breastfeeding Stephen . |
| 27 | ‘ I could n't stay at the house … ’ |
| 28 | ‘ When the children are out at school I could n't stay at home all day , ’ she says . |
| 29 | She could n't stay in Ireland if he was right about Joe Burns . |
| 30 | After going out manicuring she started spending Sunday afternoons in bed and we could n't stay in the house nor play on the doorstep for fear of disturbing her . |