Example sentences of "could not do it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Voltaire could not do it ; |
| 2 | the french could not do it . |
| 3 | He could not do it if he were not the landlord , although in general you can not , in the late twentieth century , expect high-minded landlords to do your planning for you . |
| 4 | Before I knew where I was , I had been wagered a great deal of money that I could not do it , and shortly before midnight I was leaving the hallowed portals of Ronnie Scott 's Club . |
| 5 | She knew that she could not do it alone . |
| 6 | Mr Saegusa 's first instinct was to refuse ; he thought he could not do it justice . |
| 7 | Locke replied that he could not do it ; it would take someone of the intellectual stature of Newton . |
| 8 | St Michael could not do it on his own . |
| 9 | They could not do it . |
| 10 | I was about to add his son had been an excellent patient , and found I could not do it . |
| 11 | Even though I 've got the option of not doing it , I do n't really feel I could not do it , because I feel I ought to do it . |
| 12 | As the girls changed for the dance , giggling , excited , she had moments when she thought that she could not do it , that she would prefer to go in her skirt and jersey . |
| 13 | ‘ Our only escape would be to climb down the face of the rock ; but … ’ her eyes rested on Adam ’ … your brother could not do it , mortal . |
| 14 | She tried very hard to climb up the table leg , but she could not do it . |
| 15 | But when he held out the bread to Charlotte , he could not do it , because he was shaking and crying so much . |
| 16 | I tried many times , but I could not do it . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't — yes , I could do that , ’ said Caspar , who could not do it at all , but could see that there was no other answer to be given . |
| 18 | When the young laird of Dunvegan , Norman Macleod , came down late for breakfast , Johnson ticked him off , saying laziness was worse than toothache : ‘ I have been trying to cure my laziness all my life , and could not do it . ’ |
| 19 | She could not do it . |
| 20 | She tried to skim again , but her tears fell so that she could not do it . |
| 21 | If it meant interrogating Wheeler , he knew he could not do it . |
| 22 | And I mean I would like to go offshore again , just to prove to myself whether I could or could not do it . |
| 23 | of the way to her goal ; but , as a Minister on the right of the Conservative party under political pressures , she could not do it . |
| 24 | I just could not do it , somehow . |
| 25 | Even when he could not do it properly he loved it , and very soon he pleased as much as he was pleased . |
| 26 | Even with the best will in the world , we could not do it . |
| 27 | Well , I was one of the people who could n't do it even if I was n't lifting a heavy weight . |
| 28 | I knew I could n't do it alone , ’ Lucy said . |
| 29 | When talking of what is much discussed in East Berlin as ‘ the China solution ’ , an elderly woman at the Church of the Saviour expressed a widely-held view when she declared : ‘ The authorities just could n't do it . |
| 30 | I could n't do it . |