Example sentences of "that [pers pn] could [not/n't] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meant that I could n't lead my own life at all ; when I complained about this to my husband he laughed it off . |
| 2 | I found them — compulsive … fascinating … fantasy and fable mixed , and so beautifully executed , almost photographic in detail , that I could n't shake their impression from my mind . |
| 3 | I said that I could n't fault their prices , but asked what would happen if I did n't pay . |
| 4 | By the time he arrived in Tunis he was so ‘ affected by loneliness that I could not restrain my tears and wept bitterly . ’ |
| 5 | So when he moved slightly to seek her soft lips with his own , blending predatory male purpose with the tenderness of a child seeking succour , she was lost , allowing him to possess her mouth , welcoming him with parted lips , mindlessly enjoying the sensation of his hands as they bound her to him , but not so hard that she could n't feel their trembling . |
| 6 | Whatever it was , Ace found that she could n't place his style of soldiery , and that made her nervous . |
| 7 | Constance wanted to run home but she knew that she could n't leave her bike . |
| 8 | In baggy collarless cream shirt and hip-hugging chino trousers he looked so overwhelmingly attractive that she could n't drag her eyes away . |
| 9 | They told her that she could n't have her own flat until she was eighteen . |
| 10 | From time to time a harassed mother might rap angrily on the window to complain that she could n't get her push-chair past the car , which I had parked blocking the pavement . |
| 11 | The pianist was complaining about the sunbeam which was falling across her face so that she could n't see her music . |
| 12 | She burst out laughing , and jumped up and hugged Bryony , who was laughing so much that she could n't catch her breath and had to be thumped on the back . |
| 13 | She had never learned to read , either , and on the very rare occasions she received a letter Christine was called in to read it to her , Miss Miggs being careful to explain that her eyes were n't as good as they used to be or that she could n't find her glasses . |
| 14 | Fen held her a little away from him , his hand going under her chin so that she could not hide her tear-streaked face . |
| 15 | Feeling that she could not move her left arm or leg , she sat down on the stairs . |
| 16 | Zoë Rashid now accepted that she could not visit her mother before she flew out to Syria . |
| 17 | And when Mrs Stych returned , looking like a fat Christmas fairy and complaining that she could not fix her wings , he was able to pin them onto her dress without rancour and to tell a thoroughly bawdy joke , which made Hank explode with laughter and his wife look outraged . |
| 18 | Now it did not even strike her as odd or ungracious that Jenny , after their long separation , should have no time for questions or interest about her sojourn in America or her journey home , and that she could not control her own unhappiness for the sake of welcoming back her sister . |
| 19 | That feeling was strange , she resisted it , she knew that it was absurd as well as amoral , but in the end she told herself that she could not command her feelings : she was no longer able to torment herself with thoughts of their wars nor to enjoy their celebrations , because she was filled with the conviction that none of it was her concern . |
| 20 | But she found that she could not tear her eyes away from him . |
| 21 | What does the patients charter offer to the woman in Wandsworth who last month found that she could not have her second child in the hospital that she chose for her first child because her health authority has no contract with that hospital ? |
| 22 | He crouched before her , his big shoulders against the light from the window so that she could not see his expression . |
| 23 | And his head , with the cropped dry hair which reminded her so of corn-stubble , was bent low over the page so that she could not see his face . |
| 24 | She compromised with China in agreeing to the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 and with the Zimbabwean nationalists over the Rhodesian negotiations , when it became clear that she could not get her way . |
| 25 | In a letter to Robson she described their rekindled passion , feeling only slightly aggrieved that she could not put her arms around him ( presumably they go straight through ) . |
| 26 | Often at this time of day , when he felt the day 's journey should be ending or reaching a destination , but knowing that it was not , knowing that what he was looking for probably happened after everybody else had gone home , he wished that he could end his days walking at the edge of a sea or a lake so big that you could n't see its other shore . |
| 27 | We know that we could n't earn our salvation , we know that we do n't deserve , that we know that we could n't merit it . |
| 28 | Well before I got married I had this I had this fucking dream that we could n't get our hairs done , all the girls could n't their hairs done because nowhere was open . |
| 29 | I learned then that we were but few , while the white men were many , and that we could not hold our own with them . |
| 30 | They had reached the grave , and Ace obediently turned to face the crowd , so that they could n't see her freed hands , which had previously been hidden by Petion 's body . |