Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [not/n't] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gooseneck could n't remember what the marital row was about . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been an Overseas ’ Corporation Executive for the last ten years and I 've always been told that the reason the Corporation could n't pay me the salary it paid to Americans doing similar work was because my salary had to be related to British salary scales . ’ |
| 3 | Sad that the industry of our age could not keep what the ingenuity of the former found out . |
| 4 | He explained that children came to Cedars when their own school could not give them the individual help with basic skills which they needed . |
| 5 | Camille could n't see what the dimensions of the leaf had to do with anything and asked whether mustard and cress were therefore worthless and was there any value in endive , all frayed and ragged as it was . |