Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [not/n't] [verb] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tess could not see his face , and could not understand why the head-dairyman himself should call him sir . |
| 2 | Tess could not accept her mother 's view of life , but perhaps Joan was right in this . |
| 3 | Tess could not accept his reasons for not going . |
| 4 | LABOUR could not sustain its commitment to increase benefits , social security minister Tony Newton said yesterday . |
| 5 | The lawyer could not believe his eyes . |
| 6 | New Bold college could n't prevent its students from going along and some young Seventh Day Adventists were predisposed to be receptive . |
| 7 | To see [ Brief Encounter ] again … at the Baker Street Classic , is to see another film entirely … the audience in this usually polite and certainly middle-class hall could n't restrain its derision and repeatedly burst into angry exasperated laughter … a well-spoken young lady … finally cried out ‘ Where the hell is Milford Junction anyway ? ’ |
| 8 | As you may remember when the flood bank was built the local residents were very disappointed that Lancashire County Council could not see their way to install a footway along or beside the flood bank . |
| 9 | A girl could n't close her eyes and ears to it , but she could keep herself pure . |
| 10 | Angel could not accept his father 's narrow religious beliefs , but he loved him for his courage . |
| 11 | His dip could n't save his fight to be elected and he 's now stepped down . |
| 12 | This is similar to ‘ Frankenstein ’ because the innocent people are the victims and the scientists in each story could n't control their creations . |
| 13 | The views in that last paragraph , that the creditor could not reserve his rights against others , has not prevailed . |
| 14 | As she turned to greet the father with his offspring , the midwife could not believe her ears : ‘ Place it on the fire , ’ he commanded . |
| 15 | Léonie could not remember her face . |
| 16 | ( c ) Parliament could not bind its successors as to the content , manner and form of subsequent legislation . |
| 17 | The action of the Parliamentary Party was very embarrassing for the Labour Ministers , who of course could not join their colleagues in the opposition lobby ; but it did more than anything else in wartime to identify the Labour Party with the widespread popular desire for social reform in the post-war world . |
| 18 | Gazzer could n't stop his voice from shaking . |
| 19 | And her husband could n't take his eyes off her . |
| 20 | He said Lord Lane had given ‘ substance ’ to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act and took the ‘ decisive step ’ in removing the legal fiction that a husband could not rape his wife . |
| 21 | Cassie could n't see her eyes , but she was sure that they would be almond shaped and green , to go with the sexy red hair and double-cream complexion . |
| 22 | He was loud against ‘ these new religions ’ ; his woodland life and really intense sympathy with Nature could not overcome his adherence to traditional views of religion . |
| 23 | There was one particularly disastrous episode with a boy of startling beauty ; he was called Higginbotham , but even such a name could not dim his lustre nor silence his eclat . |
| 24 | On the substantive application W. , who had attained the age of 16 , exercised her right to separate representation and resisted the application on the ground that section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969conferred on her the same right as an adult to refuse medical treatment so that the court could not override her decision . |
| 25 | Athelstan could not prevent his smile . |
| 26 | Athelstan could n't leave his parish and go into the city , but he wished he could speak to the coroner , apologise for leaving him so abruptly the night before last . |
| 27 | Despite the centralist tendencies of most non-Catalan Republicans and Socialists , the Republican-Socialist alliance could not escape its commitment to Catalan autonomy . |
| 28 | Before Christmas the Shah had constantly refused to approve such efforts , saying that the King could not secure his throne by massive bloodshed . |
| 29 | He wished to be able to show by affidavit evidence that he had not occupied the house qua pauper but had paid rates and carried out repairs , and that he had not therefore been chargeable on the parish during the period of his occupation ; the magistrate could not give himself jurisdiction by his own affirmation of it . |
| 30 | And even though it was obvious to many before the 1982 ballot that the miners were not ready to go over the barricades for a pay rise , the Left leadership could n't think its way out of its own economism . |