Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] possibly [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thy even asked how those outside the group felt and I answered that since I could not even think of anyone in the Church who contributed nothing I could not possibly answer the question . |
| 2 | He said teachers in the humanities believed that pupils were obtaining grades they could not possibly achieve in exams . |
| 3 | She knew you could not possibly manage it all on your own . |
| 4 | At the same time , he would n't feel at all happy were she to marry someone she could not possibly love simply to make her life easier , more luxurious . |
| 5 | It took Mr Gorbachev a year or two to perceive that he held a hopelessly weak hand — that the Soviet Union could not possibly match the enormous economic and technological resources Mr Reagan commanded and was prepared to employ , including the much-maligned Strategic Defence Initiative , which Mr Shultz strongly supported . |
| 6 | I could not possibly tell him the truth , as that would scare the daylights out of him . |
| 7 | Without it we could not possibly deliver the high quality of service that we do . |
| 8 | But I felt I could not possibly meet him again . |
| 9 | Local banks faced massive demands for withdrawals which they could not possibly meet and promptly declared several bank holidays in a row . |
| 10 | Clara could not explain to the school that it was not so much a question of finance , as of her mother 's instinctive opposition to any pleasurable project — and anyone could see that a visit to Paris could not possibly fail to entail more pleasure than instruction . |
| 11 | Given the weakness of the free city , this fight could not possibly succeed . |
| 12 | By portraying a mission which could not possibly succeed , the plot worked cleverly as a microcosm of the war as a whole . |
| 13 | At one moment we were all saying more or less volubly that he could not possibly succeed ; the next we found ourselves travelling along behind him " . |
| 14 | I say if she thought till she was tired , she could not possibly think of any wrong … . |
| 15 | I could not possibly entertain the mad supposition that you would stay at Mannheim , where there is no longer a court … |
| 16 | Diana had said she would look in to say hello to give them a morale boost , but when one of her staff saw the route she had to take to get there they said she could not possibly go . |
| 17 | I could not possibly go to another doctor . |
| 18 | Now he was filling their relationship with a seriousness she had always assumed it could not possibly contain . |
| 19 | It seemed to her that the world could not possibly contain a more boring room . |
| 20 | There are different hazards in different countries , and in this book I could not possibly cover every health and safety risk in every country of the world . |
| 21 | If we were talking in terms of the possibilities of identification provided by logical combinations of words from the dictionary , then ( 7 ) could not possibly identify the same entity , or set of entities , as ( 4 ) or ( 5 ) . |
| 22 | Most of them had no English and those that did could not possibly cope with the linguistic circles that no doubt would have been run round them . |
| 23 | Neither of these stations are any use to me if my car is out of action , however , because I could not possibly walk to them . |
| 24 | In the matter of these smaller " possessions " , you might have thought that he would have let you get away with the things which you could not possibly do without , a set of fish-knives , for example , which had been a wedding present , or a " sketch of the Himalayas as seen from Darjeeling . |
| 25 | I could not possibly do justice in this speech to all that has been written on the subject , but I hope that I have profited from the many articles which I have read since the hearing . |
| 26 | ‘ I could not possibly do so . ’ |
| 27 | But that was something he could not possibly admit . |
| 28 | He could not possibly mean here in the bay , yet her heart had jumped in confusion for a moment . |
| 29 | One distinguished scientist was so indignantly incredulous that he seized Galambos by the shoulders and shook him while complaining that we could not possibly mean such an outrageous suggestion . |
| 30 | Rarely did any Tiller Girl stand out in a glamorous way but stunning was always the word used to describe Violet Bryant nicknamed Ginger because of her glorious red hair , she could not possibly blend in with the others . |