Example sentences of "could [not/n't] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are surprised that the Council could not do more for the World . |
| 2 | I was surprised that the Council could not do more for the World . |
| 3 | On a more phenomenological level , if we wanted some visual analogue to the associationist view of mental life we could not do much better than think of one of those ‘ psychedelic ’ slide-shows popular in the late 1960s , in which lights were projected through oil , producing coloured globs which met , merged and repelled in a series of kaleidoscopic patterns . |
| 4 | I set about the lump with the Woodcarver and soon discovered what it could and could not do . |
| 5 | But when I looked over those I had kept , I decided I could not do so . |
| 6 | Voltaire could not do it ; |
| 7 | the french could not do it . |
| 8 | He could not do it if he were not the landlord , although in general you can not , in the late twentieth century , expect high-minded landlords to do your planning for you . |
| 9 | Before I knew where I was , I had been wagered a great deal of money that I could not do it , and shortly before midnight I was leaving the hallowed portals of Ronnie Scott 's Club . |
| 10 | President Christos Sartzetakis asked Mr Grivas to form a government after the main political parties would or could not do so . |
| 11 | And since Cambridge University of 1924 was hardly likely to breed recruits for the Labour Party — that took another three years — the young men and women of the university could not do much but move , or move further , towards the Conservative side . |
| 12 | She had experienced mounting terror at the thought of a new role in which she would certainly prove a failure — a woman who could not do her work , could not save her father , could not love her mother , could not satisfy her man , was most unlikely to make any sort of mother . |
| 13 | She knew that she could not do it alone . |
| 14 | We could not do the trip in and out of the town in time to catch the last plane that evening , so we were condemned to this place and an early flight . |
| 15 | If the army could not do the job unaided twenty years ago , it is even less likely to get involved now . |
| 16 | If the army could not do the job unaided twenty years ago , it is even less likely to get involved now . |
| 17 | But the chairman , Ewan Murray , said that he could not do so without permission from the AAA . |
| 18 | Mr Saegusa 's first instinct was to refuse ; he thought he could not do it justice . |
| 19 | Locke replied that he could not do it ; it would take someone of the intellectual stature of Newton . |
| 20 | She tried to find a moment to squeeze in a bit of rest at the sauna , something she could not do during the week ; in the late afternoon , she would always find herself with a vacuum cleaner and duster , because the cleaning woman who came on Fridays was becoming more and more careless . |
| 21 | Yet , says Paul , what the Law could not do , Christ did : he identified himself with my sin and took my place . |
| 22 | The next day , Christmas Day , I could not do anything , just sat around a lot of the time , lost in my own thoughts . |
| 23 | Not different at all , countered Weinberger : still fanatically anti-American and virulently anti-western ; America could not do any business with them . |
| 24 | St Michael could not do it on his own . |
| 25 | I was fascinated to watch this , particularly as at that time this is something I could not do myself . |
| 26 | Of course they had , and remembering had made them examine their arrangements more closely to see if they could not do without their man-servant . |
| 27 | If you were to come yourself Lily or the child 's Father I could not stand in your way whatever my feelings which are strong , but to hand over my Precious little one to a Young and Foreign girl who spoke his only language poorly that I could not do and send him with her on a dangerous voyage most frightening to him . |
| 28 | To her mistress it was understandable that she should never speak absolutely freely but it was intolerable that she could not do so to the last remaining member of her family , nor even to her husband . |
| 29 | If Mr Major lost his majority and could not do a deal with another party , would he be entitled as Prime Minister to request a dissolution and a second election ? |
| 30 | That said , we have seen so many people in recent months who wanted to move but could not do so until they knew what was going to happen to their take-home income . ’ |