Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were told that we could not add anything to the pedestrian provision after the initial period . |
| 2 | He could not put them to the Committee and I look forward to seeing whether they can be put forward tonight . |
| 3 | Luke would have said that politically he stood way to the left of his mother and way , way to the left of his father , but somehow he could not reconcile himself to the thought of his mother stocking shelves in Pricewell 's . |
| 4 | Unlike the runners or the cuistots , when carrying a wounded man the unhappy musiciens/ brancardiers could not fling themselves to the ground each time a shell screamed overhead . |
| 5 | He could not trust them to the dairymaids , because if the cows were badly milked their milk would simply dry up . |
| 6 | I would have to wait until Mum and Dad went out to the pub so we could n't make it to the first . |
| 7 | He explained he was having a dizzy spell and could n't make it to the doctor 's , so I drove him there . |
| 8 | People who wanted information from him were noting his silence and making their judgments accordingly ; his life seemed to be funnelling down into a pit like so much waste water , and yet he could n't stir himself to the right kind of action . |
| 9 | He could n't throw him to the wolves of his colleagues at the Factory . |
| 10 | But I could n't get her to the doctor , she would n't go . |