Example sentences of "[adv] [vb mod] [not/n't] cope [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Mixing spirits and wine can work surprisingly well , but not with this dish — pudding wines just could not cope with its intense brandy flavour . |
| 2 | Yeah , I worked with a voluntary group for a while and I remember helping one lady go through , she was raped , and go through the courts , and all her past life was brought up , I mean I was so upset for her and yet the fact that he had actually raped twice before was n't brought up , but her past life was brought up and the man actually got off in the end because she just could not cope with being on the stand and dealing with it all and it was just so terrible that , that , that the , the ina , |
| 3 | The Arsenal and England striker scored twice — his second goal one of pure genius — and left Everton manager Howard Kendall admitting : ‘ We just could not cope with him . |
| 4 | Rural areas just could n't cope with the influx — what is country now would become city , so what 's the point ? |
| 5 | If we could have beamed her down like in Star Trek , it would have been all right , but she just could n't cope with getting on a plane or a boat . |
| 6 | ‘ I cried like a baby to the four walls , I just could n't cope with it , ’ she recalls . |
| 7 | I just could n't cope with it . |
| 8 | I just could n't cope with myself , let alone her . |
| 9 | ‘ I just ca n't cope with it any more . |
| 10 | I just ca n't cope with the written word , I suppose . ’ |
| 11 | Erm I mean that was quite odd really , we had er quite a few white tenants coming in to one end of the building , erm just saying that , you know , We just ca n't cope with it any more . |
| 12 | She just ca n't cope with this sort of thing . |
| 13 | It 's such an unpleasant job and I just can not cope with it . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , the majority of poultry houses built cheaply will not cope with excessive movement of the extra weight of the birds . |
| 15 | It still had n't really filtered through to him until he was actually on the ground working , and he just really could n't cope with that . |
| 16 | I really ca n't cope with this mountain of admin , ’ and it 's amazing how many men ca n't wait to wade in to rescue me . ’ |
| 17 | I simply could n't cope with what was happening . |
| 18 | The company told its workforce it simply could n't cope with the recession . |
| 19 | What price the ‘ efficiency savings ’ made by day-surgery and early discharge when the patient leaves hospital with barely controlled pain and becomes infected , or simply ca n't cope at home and requires re-admission ? |
| 20 | The centre of Hereford simply ca n't cope with heavy traffic . |
| 21 | ‘ Here we are having February weather in the middle of sheep shearing season and the animals simply can not cope with the conditions . |