Example sentences of "i could not [verb] [pron] [conj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I could not finish them until after Dana had left for the States , when I would sit day after day beside my desk , trying to write , while on the other side of Avondale Buildings the children screamed and shrieked in the playground . |
| 2 | I do not know — I could not tell you or … |
| 3 | I could not stop it if I wished , ; no one can stop it . |
| 4 | ‘ I said that I could not commit myself as my academic time was not yet finished , but I would like to be at their disposal later . ’ |
| 5 | His fingers were bloody and in his eyes there was such despair that I could not stand it and went out into the filthy courtyard ’ . |
| 6 | Then when we were alone : ‘ Darling , tell me — ’ I could not bear it that she suffered so . |
| 7 | I could not bear it that he should go free . |
| 8 | I could hear my wife , Sharon , in the driver 's seat of our Peugeot 405 but I could not see her because my eyes were clouded with blood . |
| 9 | But I felt I could not lose him and hung on the hour-and-a-half walk firing the occasional question like a lifeline , till he succumbed to a conversation about the war poets : ‘ like old beggars under sacks … we cursed through sludge … ’ |
| 10 | to , to , I mean when I first had the er plaster off , which was for ten days it was , I could not believe it that these fingers were not going but I 'm told that that 's quite usual . |
| 11 | I could not believe it when he came in and told us . |