Example sentences of "[verb] they could n't [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from Steve , I do n't think there appeared to be anyone who turned round and said look they could n't do it . |
| 2 | It was just that they 'd been told they could n't do it . |
| 3 | ‘ We were about twenty minutes altogether from the point where we realized they could n't get us down to the time when we stepped on to the roof . |
| 4 | In the dream she was smiling , holding out her hands to the man and the children , but her smile slowly faded as she realised they could n't see her . |
| 5 | But they felt they could n't do it . |
| 6 | I thought they could n't join them . |
| 7 | I went to see it but the lady running it said they could n't take me . |
| 8 | So Mericlean sent it away with his P forty five to have it changed and they said they could n't accept it that they 'd have to re-apply or something . |
| 9 | After the acquittal , the Disciplinary Committee of the jockey Club called Filmer to Portman Square to warn him as to his future behaviour , and Filmer said they could n't touch him , and was generally unbearably arrogant . |
| 10 | My grandparents said they could n't afford it . |
| 11 | No , well he wa it was the council , they said they could n't afford it . |
| 12 | There was no reply and Clarissa said they could n't hear him , so why did n't he leave it ? ’ |
| 13 | He just hoped they could n't see it from the stalls . |
| 14 | Emmie was always frightened that he would say they could n't afford it and try to borrow money , but usually he just laughed and said there was n't any need , the girls could manage . |
| 15 | John always said that they spent more money restoring the facade than they ever spent on the thousands of workers who worked inside the plant , but then when it closed they could n't knock it down , so they turned it into a superstore . |