Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] could [not/n't] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This clearly elevates me to some sort of status in his mind , although I personally could n't give a shit . |
| 2 | ‘ It was a feeling of being suspended — it was not a negative feeling and not even a loss to be mourned , but I just could not see a way ahead . |
| 3 | ‘ I hope I have n't undone all your good work , ’ she said repentantly , ‘ but I just could n't exist a second longer without washing myself all over . ’ |
| 4 | I just could n't take a journey in a confined space with a man who pronounced Sgurr na Ciste Duibhe as Sisty Dub and did n't think it was as good as the Lake District . |
| 5 | I just could n't get a word out then , I was just a quivering , stuttering heap , and I tried to say , ‘ I 've g-g-g-g-got a sp-sp-sp-speech impediment . ’ |
| 6 | After doing three partial water changes with mature tap water ( pH 7.2 ) I still could n't get a reading of over 6 in the Discus tank . |
| 7 | Even though I have a degree in Bio-chemistry I still could n't get a place at medical school in Britain . |
| 8 | He was wearing a grubby trench coat with the collar turned up so I still could not get a good look at him , but there was no mistaking his dimensions . |
| 9 | I also could n't hide a snigger when the commentator mentioned Batts ' meagre goal rate of one per hundred games . |
| 10 | ‘ I had such a huge breakfast ’ , Lavender said , ‘ I really could n't eat a thing . ’ |
| 11 | Another thing is the heat — the temperature at the presses is around 150 degrees … you just could n't wear a mask there . |
| 12 | Now in terms of whether it should be five thousand plus , that of course is a matter of whether there is demand , now my my conclusion , from my fairly extensive knowledge of Greater York , is that you just could not fit a new settlement that size satisfactorily into the settlement and landscape pattern of Greater York , or its immediate surrounds , I just can not identify a location where that could be where where the roads , the public transport , the landscape , or indeed the agricultural land quality , from now onto five an area , suitably large for that type of what would be a a new town . |
| 13 | After all these years she still could n't resist a feeling of pride when she said that to a total stranger . |
| 14 | FitzAlan and Simon de Villiers were the only people in Winchester who knew her , but she still could not banish a feeling of trepidation at being on the high street in broad daylight . |
| 15 | but of course the main event of the year at Headingley is the Test Match , and say Yorkshire Cricket Club : ‘ You really could n't have a better view than from the comfort of an executive box . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We just could n't find a lot of music we liked when we started so we just thought ‘ let's try and make something we like , ’ ’ says Ed . |
| 17 | Cleaning staff had been drastically cut and we often could n't find a change of sheets after a delivery . |
| 18 | Cookstown sprung into life after this and although they played some flowing football they just could not penetrate a resolute Ballymoney defence until that is the 40th minute when a bad blunder from the Ballymoney goalkeeper Merchant presented Alan Shaw with a simple tap in from only five yards . |
| 19 | He obviously could n't give a damn what she did , tucked away in his cosy room , dressed in his nice dry clothes . |
| 20 | He personally could n't give a monkey 's whether I went out or.not as long as the CID boys knew where they could get me . |
| 21 | He just could n't get a decent length to putt to fall , and I felt it was getting to him . |
| 22 | Rubberneck knew them all , pious lives ; he had been lectured them a hundred times , even if he still could not fix a face to a saint , or only ( he felt an affinity ) St Francis . |
| 23 | He knew the details of ident laws and rationing for every country in Europe , he had mastered Dutch and French , and he still could not get a pipe to burn for more than three minutes at a stretch . |