Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [not/n't] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could n't tell you the regiment , but there is a lieutenant of that name staying here . |
| 2 | But one one time one man put up and I do n't know the reason why and I could n't tell you the year but his name was er the Honour somebody . |
| 3 | He used to go to a lotta places er that as knocked down or , well I could n't tell you the kind of job , but often there was some locks on the premises was er , perhaps needed repair or he wanted them to be in before he could leave the job and say here you are , that 's the job done . |
| 4 | ‘ I could n't tell you the truth , Ruth . |
| 5 | I I could n't tell you the exact number but it was over a hundred shops in Edinburgh . |
| 6 | And he said , it 's most unlike me , as you probably know , but he said I could n't tell you the last time I had time off work , but he said , I have n't been into the office since th cos I 've been feeling really bad ! |
| 7 | I could n't imagine what the others were used for . |
| 8 | Erm n I as I say I could n't see her the bed it was it was a duvet and . |
| 9 | She was n't doing anything interesting at all so I could n't see what the fascination was . |
| 10 | ‘ I could n't see him the room was full with smoke . |
| 11 | I told the hon. Gentleman that I could not give him the information for which he asked until October , when the 1991 population figures would become available . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ The supporters know I have always spoken to them in honesty and when I could not give them the truth I have kept my mouth shut . |
| 13 | She felt she could not tell him the truth to his face , but there was another way . |
| 14 | Both of them realised that he had abandoned all pretence that Sally-Anne was an ordinary young woman come to work in Vetch Street , but neither of them pursued the matter , Dr Neil from delicacy , and Sally-Anne because she could not tell him the real truth about herself — he would undoubtedly immediately send her back to the embassy , and she did not want that at all — it would be failure . |
| 15 | She could not tell him about Havvie ; neither could she speak the lie to him , not to Dr Neil , but she could not tell him the truth , for that would mean telling him who she was , and she could not tell him that , not here , not now ; it would spoil everything between them if he knew that she was the spoiled and pampered American Princess . |
| 16 | She could n't tell what the words were , but she was grateful that he was being detained . |
| 17 | And I 'm glad enough to have you back , since you could not give me the grandson I hoped for — ’ |
| 18 | Because obviously if you had one particular factory on the tideway and another producing an identical product and identical effluent in one of the tributaries , you could n't treat them the same because they 're patently different cases . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Too bad you could n't tell him the truth — that whatever class that dress gets it owes to you . ’ |
| 20 | Well you could n't find them the other day , you said they were n't there did n't you ? |
| 21 | France and Spain , okay , if you only got one of those countries right we could n't give you the point , it has to be both , question eighteen , in which book would you find the character Long John Silver ? |
| 22 | I 'm sorry we could n't do it the day you arrived , but it took a little bit of organizing . " |
| 23 | He could n't see what the men were doing most of the time , because they were either inside or hidden by buildings . |
| 24 | He could n't understand what the lecturer was talking about because he knew nothing about accounts . |
| 25 | Which was okay when he was younger ; his mother , she had helped him choose his first wigs ( even if he could not tell her the cause of his fright , all his hair was on the pillow ) . |
| 26 | Rain asked whether he could not tell her the story on the telephone . |
| 27 | Because I was less a true coward , a calculating coward , than someone so innocent , or so Greek , that he could not see what the war had to do with him . |
| 28 | He could not deny her the comfort of this lie any more than he could deny her a piece of bread if she were starving . |
| 29 | He could not reveal what the buyers was planning for the building , however , any investment in the site is certain to bring jobs with it . |