Example sentences of "[conj] she could not [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not that she could n't contemplate marriage to anyone other than Will . |
| 2 | It was then that she could n't put Fen out of her mind . |
| 3 | Once she was there it would require a tremendous effort of will to get her back to London — except that she could not leave Holly in charge for more than a day ; and except that she was avid for information about the murder inquiry ; and except that there were any number of good stories she wanted to pursue for the column and any amount of private gossip she wanted to hear . |
| 4 | Naylor thought Travis was her lover , and she could n't tell Naylor that he was n't — not without bringing in Rosemary across the corridor . |
| 5 | Carrie tried to mop up the mess with the edge of the table cloth and put a mat under the worst of it to stop the damp marking the table , but her hands seemed all thumbs and she could n't stop crying . |
| 6 | But she could n't stop thinking of David in his white coat , visiting the patients , touching them , and this was where her thoughts made her tingle all over , and she had to set her mind to something else . |
| 7 | But she could n't drink milk could she ? |
| 8 | But she could not ask Lubor anything about the man who attracted her so . |
| 9 | Not because she could n't lose weight but because she enjoyed coming along for a weekly work-out session and it helped to keep her weight in check . |
| 10 | TRAGIC aerobics teacher Joanna Grenside faked her own dramatic kidnap because she could not face Christmas . |
| 11 | Is it not time that those pensioners , including the one who told me that she was keeping warm during the day by clutching a hot-water bottle because she could not afford heating bills , were given a decent state pension as of right , without the humiliation of a contributory test , which involves means-testing for those who are in greatest need ? |
| 12 | And his mother , anxious when she could not make contact with him , reported him missing nine days later . |