Example sentences of "be that he [vb mod] n't [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know but he could of been ill , he could , it could of been that he could n't take any more you know that but Margaret was terri terribly bitter about him Margaret not coming , but he could , he could n't stand it |
| 2 | The problem Steve seems to have is that he ca n't stop himself asking banal , pretentious , inconsequential questions which produce zero ( sic ) by way of an interesting response . |
| 3 | The trouble is that he ca n't recreate the formula , so he is pretty teed off by the time his fund manager Dr Crane ( Lorraine Bracco ) turns up to find out what 's going on . |
| 4 | He jokes that one of the problems of backstroke is that he ca n't see where he 's going . |
| 5 | What I 'm saying is that he would n't have taken her out into the woods . |
| 6 | ‘ As for his hard-man image , all I 'll say is that he would n't have lasted five minutes in my day . |
| 7 | The only consolation is that he would n't have felt a thing . |
| 8 | Lee Marvin , who had a good supporting role in the film , told me , ‘ The big problem I had with Monty Clift was that he would n't look me in the eye . |
| 9 | The only thing that stopped him was that he could n't decide exactly what the problem was . |
| 10 | When we first started with him , even when we were rehearsing properly with him , all we could think of was that he could n't sing . |
| 11 | The night was still young , so whoever the female was who worked peculiar hours , or whatever the reason was that he could n't have seen her earlier — and by then Fabia was certain that ‘ someone he had to see ’ would be female — then she hoped he had a truly lovely time ! |
| 12 | The trouble was that he could n't begin to see how much she had changed . |