Example sentences of "could not [vb infin] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had tried hard to destroy all feelings of love for him , but now that I saw him again , I could not stop myself loving him . |
| 2 | This quiet group of people looked so simple and unassuming that at first he could not think what made them interesting to him , and then he realized that they gave every appearance of complete sincerity . |
| 3 | Oh , this could not be happening — that she loved him so , and yet could not bear him to caress her ! |
| 4 | I could not make her understand it was herself , and I began to be afraid that her illness was real . |
| 5 | I was desperate enough to consider rushing round the table pretending to be Pumblechook 's carriage , but I could not make myself do it , and just stood there helplessly . |
| 6 | Some 14 per cent of the 1980 GHS sample aged over 65 could not do their shopping themselves and 28 per cent could not cut their own toe-nails ( OPCS 1982 ) . |
| 7 | Vienna Dear Fräulein Arandt , I am sorry you could not bring yourself to tell me about your parents . |
| 8 | When I plucked up the courage to ask my mother about it she just burst into tears and I could not bring myself to question her again . |
| 9 | But he could not bring himself to do it , especially not now , after Simon had revealed how she had spoken up for him . |
| 10 | And a photographer told how he saw a girl of about six so severely burned that a fireman could not bring himself to treat her by dousing her with a hose . |
| 11 | He could not bring himself to say it . |
| 12 | But Harry could not bring himself to condemn him . |
| 13 | Sycorax was lodged in his conscience and she lamed him , like a stone in a horse 's hoof ; yet he could not bring himself to have her murdered . |
| 14 | For a few days Osman could not bring himself to show his face in public and there was a noticeable lull in hostilities . |
| 15 | She wanted desperately to confide in someone about this , but once again found it impossible to find anyone suitable her mother was too distraught , her father was dead , and she could not bring herself to mention it to Miriam for fear of provoking some too blunt observations on the mysterious workings of a lady 's insides . |
| 16 | She could not bring herself to do it . |
| 17 | Still she could not bring herself to touch him , until , turning his head , she saw the scar , and without thinking leaned forward to kiss that , a butterfly kiss like his , to show him that she loved him — and his scar . |
| 18 | These doubts , hard to pin down , because reason easily disposed of them all , crystallised around the fact that Comrade Andrew too often smelled of drink ; she could not bring herself to criticise him for his partiality to the goose-girl , because she had learned so long ago and so thoroughly simply to switch off in this area . |
| 19 | Despite the strength of her misgivings , she could not bring herself to voice them . |
| 20 | All explanations , all excuses were crude and deadly , and she could not bring herself to make them , but she could not sit there either , contemplating her own slow lapse from grace . |
| 21 | Rosalba never went to the trysting place , because Caterina could not bring herself to tell her sister about the assignation Tommaso had proposed in the byre . |
| 22 | They believed in the myth and Diana could not bring herself to tell them the awful truth . |
| 23 | This means that even if there were events before the big bang , one could not use them to determine what would happen afterward , because predictability would break down at the big bang . |
| 24 | It could not use them to manufacture its own products ( see also Peter Pan Manufacturing Corp v Corsets Silhouette [ 1964 ] 1 WLR 96 ) . |
| 25 | Not only do we not usually think of Snell 's law when we try to net a fish or tickle a trout , but we could not use it to help us do so even if we did . |
| 26 | Mr Brownlow and Rose could not persuade her to change her mind . |
| 27 | Even with a perfect ear , you could not determine which shapes you were listening to , they say . |
| 28 | He could not ask her to define it further , that would be asking for flattery . |
| 29 | And because Liu Chang could not risk them saying anything to anyone . |
| 30 | They looked just like those horrible Yahoos , and at first I could not let them touch me or come near me . |