Example sentences of "[noun] that [pron] could [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are there songs when when you er are in concert as you are tonight , are there songs that you could not miss out ? |
| 2 | It would have been just like her to take a method like this to exact a petty revenge for their disagreements , landing Folly with a pile of unwanted stock that she could n't refuse without souring relations with her supplier . |
| 3 | But when you explore the same region of the visual field with a moving spot you get a result that you could not have predicted from the responses with stationary spots . |
| 4 | Forster was so smitten by the result that he could not trust his voice to announce the Nazi gains on the radio , and is said to have spent the night at home weeping uncontrollably . |
| 5 | His answer was so far from the murmuring of her own mind that she could not comprehend what he was saying . |
| 6 | After all , you would n't fly an aircraft that you could n't rely on , so why expect any less of us ? |
| 7 | ( His meanings were tinged with the sharp edges of anxieties that she could n't comprehend , and joy laved them all away . ) |
| 8 | It was a bitter summary of their unhappy affair , but compunction ensued , because it was n't Luke 's fault that he could n't love her , even if he had no right to despise her , so she added neutrally , ‘ There 's a Chinese tea-house or tea-garden — I 'm not sure what it 's really called — not far from here that intrigues me , and I 've been wanting to go and find out what it 's all about ever since I first passed it . |
| 9 | And i and my lad would bring home all these damn great big books that he could n't read ! |
| 10 | " What about your car that they could n't find ? |
| 11 | If I can use erm an analogy of my own rather than of his , to produce erm a detailed adaptation of an organism to a specific way of life , if only large steps , large mutational changes were possible , would be a little like trying a surgeon trying to remove erm an appendix with a scalpel mounted on some kind of trolley clamp with the rule that he could n't move it less than a foot at a time . |
| 12 | Sacred , potent words that she could n't bear to throw like confetti into the breeze , however bright and brilliant the climate of the moment . |
| 13 | Of course , I had heard these same sentiments expressed by his lordship on many occasions before , but such was the depth of conviction with which he spoke in this august setting that I could not help but be moved afresh . |
| 14 | age of six months that they could n't handle me any more . |
| 15 | Only his eyes were small , and they were set so deeply in their orbits that you could not tell what colour they were . |
| 16 | I felt like shit and I was trying so hard not to think of Lewis and Verity that I could n't think about anything else , but the day was fabulous ; clear and cold , the sky crystal blue and reflecting in the waters of hill-cupped lochans and the glinting length of Loch Add . |
| 17 | The titles were not ones with which she was familiar : The Book Of Dzyan , The Book of Eibon , The Golden Bough , Ludwig Prinn 's De Vermiis Mysteriis , The Beginner 's Guide to the Necronomicon , and others whose titles were written in so indecipherable a script that she could n't read it . |
| 18 | And in spite of his own protestations that he could n't begin to do it , everybody pressed him , including Madame Dietrich , including the Baron 's wife , and she charmed him . |
| 19 | They were quite far apart , it was light but still felt enclosed : you could look up and see the high tops of the pines swaying in a wind that you could n't feel down on the ground . |
| 20 | Diana admitted to Penny that she could n't bear the pressure of her position any longer and that she had to leave the system . |
| 21 | ‘ It encouraged drivers to limit their drinking because there might have been the conception that you could n't tell people not to drink at all , ’ says the DoT spokesman . |
| 22 | Emily felt a momentary sense of panic , she had no means of supporting herself , her father 's business was in ruins , he had left great debts that she could not meet . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll find it , ’ I yelled back at him , then slipped an old Simply Red tape into the cassette just to annoy him , although it had the added advantage that I could n't hear him any more . |
| 24 | The board said it regretted that Lord Hollick had informed the chairman that he could not support its statement of support for Mr Montgomery in full . |
| 25 | Her parents felt that she was being difficult and kept presenting her with toys and activities that she could not do . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's because of that helplessness that I have to go , ’ and he walked so quickly out of the churchyard that she could not follow him . |
| 27 | It was when Johnny made plans that she could n't bear it . |
| 28 | The demand was heavy , for a payment of one-sixth on the goods of the laity and of one-third on those of the clergy , and some men refused payment outright , while others put forward the plea that they could not afford to pay . |
| 29 | I mean , it is n't as though we have to operate a policy in which we heavily advertise the availability of grants , it , it can develop via word of mouth , if we advertise anything , we would be inundated with demand for to a level that we could n't cope with . |
| 30 | But however I suppose it but it takes it 's like everything else but it 's a dead it really is a trade er Graham was saying to m to me when I was down in London , he says , It 's a pity mum that you could n't get work you know , I mean , you just did n't have the you know , your age and that to start work down here , he says , there 'd be plenty of work for you . |