Example sentences of "[that] he could [not/n't] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Vernon admitted that he could not do justice to all the fund raising efforts of the year , but would nonetheless like to congratulate the organisers of the four local appeals in Lincolnshire , Filey , the Mersey area and Derbyshire who all reached and surpassed their targets in 1990 . |
| 2 | It is one of civil politeness with the inn keeper realising that he could not beat Turnour in a fight and so he is prepared to bend under Turnour 's will as shown by his ‘ almost ’ friendliness when telling Turnour about his house and his asking of when Turnour would like to eat . |
| 3 | Thus , for example , when meeting the TUC General Council in January 1942 he warned that he could not put money towards the elderly ‘ at the cost of the children ’ and that he had to give them ‘ fair treatment without ruining the country ’ . |
| 4 | Ferkhan also owned land near the village and complained that lack of electricity meant that he could not pump water to his field and , as a result , he had grown only twenty tons of melons compared to eighty before the war … |
| 5 | She was smiling , and Paul suddenly realised that he could not take money from her . |
| 6 | Now Diego was a man in years , and his strength had passed from him , so that he could not take vengeance , and he retired to his home to dwell there in solitude and lament over his dishonour . |
| 7 | The essential problem was that he could not visualize action or dynamic behaviour upon the stage ; he understood only words and the power of rhetorical statement . |
| 8 | But not too concerned that he could n't find time to drop into Simon Butcher 's to have his picture taken . ’ |