Example sentences of "[conj] i could not [verb] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time he arrived in Tunis he was so ‘ affected by loneliness that I could not restrain my tears and wept bitterly . ’ |
| 2 | Just as someone deprived of sound , sight and tactile stimuli will invent wonderful and sometimes horrific experiences , so I could not prevent my imagination from running away with itself . |
| 3 | It was the first time she had actually said for certain that she would sail with me and I could not hide my joy , and Ellen , seeing that pleasure , laughed at it . |
| 4 | My insomnia became chronic whenever Dana stayed the night , simply because I could not take my eyes away from his sleeping form beneath the bedside lamps . |
| 5 | There was something strange about these and they seemed to scare me though I could not take my eyes away . |