Example sentences of "i could n't help " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't help laughing at that . |
| 2 | I could n't help feeling pleased though I was ashamed of myself … |
| 3 | Fixing my eyes on them , I could n't help cursing Aisha , wishing she was dead , swearing by the Prophet Muhammad that I would have my revenge because it was she who was stopping me walking those streets and riding in those red buses to find work and a flat or a room of my own . |
| 4 | When I was told that I 'd have to share a kitchen and bathroom with strangers I could n't help thinking how this would astound the people at home , how they would snort with laughter at the idea that this could really happen in England , mother of civilization . |
| 5 | I could n't help but joining in . |
| 6 | After seeing the picture of Scafell Massif taken in evening sunshine from the summit of Yewbarrow , I could n't help wishing I 'd been there . |
| 7 | I could n't help myself . ’ |
| 8 | As we said our goodbyes and hoped to meet up again soon , I could n't help thinking as I watched the column disappear in the distance that the Marines were not going to find the situation any easier than their last venue . |
| 9 | As we moved along I could n't help feeling apprehensive as I looked for newly disturbed ground that could contain a box mine , or glancing at the trees and hedges for signs of booby-traps . |
| 10 | As I looked at the faces marching past with a smart eyes right , I could n't help thinking of those who would have liked to have been on this parade ; those still manning the trenches , and all those buried in a shallow grave in the orchards around the village . |
| 11 | As I stood and gazed at the now empty slit trenches , I could n't help a sinking feeling in my stomach as I pictured in my mind those who had occupied the trenches in this orchard , those who had been killed or seriously wounded . |
| 12 | I could n't help remembering the pleasure I had had in my clothes , how keen my mother had been on my wearing them , how we had often designed them and chosen them together and my mother had made most of them . |
| 13 | He seemed so pleased with himself that I could n't help saying that I should mind them very much myself but that I had no objection to his wearing them — a view which I believed surprised him . |
| 14 | I could n't help laughing — it was so true . |
| 15 | I could n't help but imagine the scene of panic and desperation that must have taken place a few hours earlier - the young dolphin fighting and dying in a few frantic spasms , its grieving mother well able to defend her child from sharks but helpless against a silent , resisting wall of nylon . ’ |
| 16 | I could n't help but notice that you could not find an appropriate country for Brian Mulroney , Canada 's prime minister . |
| 17 | I could n't help but think he wanted it to be a theme park . |
| 18 | I could n't help myself ; I laughed out loud . |
| 19 | ‘ I could n't help it , Gary . |
| 20 | I could n't help feeling proud . |
| 21 | ‘ I could n't help it ! |
| 22 | SEVERAL hours into the work of Derek Jarman , I could n't help but recall a television profile of the film-maker screened earlier this year . |
| 23 | I could n't help laughing . |
| 24 | To keep my mind in check I decided to remember the journey here ( a cavernous train with wooden seats ) or the flight to Riga ( alarmingly , the roof leaked ) , but I could n't help falling into the mental free-form that this placed allowed . |
| 25 | I could n't help thinking that he must have made a mistake . |
| 26 | He was a handsome man , with neat geometrical features , but it was this mysterious blemish which , I could n't help thinking , was the secret of his success with women . |
| 27 | Ma and Pa Pickering tried to probe , but I was sorry I could n't help them . |
| 28 | I could n't help noticing that they spent all their off-duty time racing down to London to what they called ‘ a sitting ’ , which tuned out to be another name for a seance . |
| 29 | I could n't help contrasting it with Antrim , Edinburgh , Gateshead , even Crystal Palace where you needed two or three tracksuits just to keep warm . |
| 30 | It was ridiculous — it was crazy — but I could n't help myself . |