Example sentences of "could [adv] longer [verb] their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought again about his parents , but it had been a long time and he became angry with himself because he could no longer picture their faces like before . |
| 2 | He began by saying that people were starving to death , and it got more pessimistic from then on : the resettlement camps , the ensuing dislocation which meant people could no longer grow their food , the dying children . |
| 3 | Even better , governments could no longer cheat their citizens by inflation . |
| 4 | Those four years left a black cloud over everything with the ever-recurring casualties among our friends and relatives and the suffocating misery I remember when our parents could no longer hide their anxiety at the big German push in the spring of 1918 when it seemed their advance towards Paris would never stop . |
| 5 | Charles and Diana could no longer pretend their marriage was working and both knew their only chance of future happiness lay in being honest . |
| 6 | He could no longer read their position on the Loran let alone see the coast and the mouth of the Makaa River which remained his goal . |