Example sentences of "could not [vb infin] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would not , could not leave him for this boy ! |
| 2 | I could not leave him now . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He knew that he still whistled sometimes , but the bogeyman could not scare him any more . |
| 5 | A motion for Noriega 's release on bail was denied on Jan. 26 on the grounds that he represented " an extraordinary danger to the community " and that he might use his " vast wealth overseas " to flee to a country from which the US could not recover him . |
| 6 | The momentary shadow touched but could not intimidate him ; he had gone somewhat beyond fear for himself . |
| 7 | Even marriage could not cure him of all his anxieties , and it is salutary to remember that , in some situations , he was as frightened of other people as they were of him : he often seemed shy and hesitant in conversation still . |
| 8 | But for such vituperation and the violence it provoked the law could not punish him , though it tried to do so on a number of occasions . |
| 9 | She endured his lovemaking , sometimes she even enjoyed it , but for the greater part she could not love him in the way he truly deserved . |
| 10 | The man could not smell him . |
| 11 | All the women in the world could not move him |
| 12 | His sandals could not move him they burst their thongs |
| 13 | All the men in the world could not move him |
| 14 | She knew she could not fail him . |
| 15 | She honestly could not hold him off alone . |
| 16 | But she could not hold him off ! |
| 17 | In the end , of course , lack-lustre Palace could not hold him and , although discerning fans then thought he could have played in a much higher grade , he subsequently had a successful career with stronger clubs in the 3rd Division South , Bournemouth and Reading . |
| 18 | They could not hold him now , they could only hope to come off with their lives and unidentified . |
| 19 | In 1985 his batting reached its peak at Taunton against a Warwickshire team who bowled and fielded well but who could not stop him making 322 , the highest first-class innings in England for thirty-six years ; after a slightly uncomfortable start , the second and third hundreds came off sixty-seven and sixty-three balls respectively , and only tiredness after a drive from Leeds the evening before caused his downfall . |
| 20 | She could not stop him . |
| 21 | When she saw that she could not stop him she tried another tack . |
| 22 | When they got out of the cab she could not shake him off . |
| 23 | Oh , this could not be happening — that she loved him so , and yet could not bear him to caress her ! |
| 24 | For she could not bear him to be unhappy — even if it meant that she must … |
| 25 | At last even his own wives could not recognize him , and El-ahrairah told Rabscuttle to follow some way behind and off he went to King Darzin 's palace . |
| 26 | For a moment he could not answer him . |
| 27 | It could not prevent him from having doubts . |
| 28 | I duly notified ‘ the appropriate authorities ’ , and they replied that they could not prevent him from going because he was an English subject . |
| 29 | ( 155 ) … and even the Soviet morticians could not make him look presentable . |
| 30 | My horse was skittish , I could not settle him . |