Example sentences of "could n't [verb] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then everything was in bandages so I could n't tell and I asked immediately and somebody said : ‘ They have taken it out . ’ |
| 2 | You went blind , you got raped , people forgot your birthday , Nixon got elected , your husband fled with a blonde from Beckenham , and then you got old , you could n't walk and you died . |
| 3 | It took a long time because Louise kept interrupting with questions that Constance could n't answer and which seemed irrelevant beside the tremendous fact that Ludovico was waiting for her and she longed to run to him . |
| 4 | They left her alone with a great heavy belt strapped round her belly pressing her and making green and yellow lights wink on the huge machine by the bed , and she could n't move and her back was aching and they put a tube into her wrist and she could n't move and she began to panic . |
| 5 | erm but then he he could n't take and he moved into the steel works . |
| 6 | so , erm , last night when we came home I looked at this Argos ticket which I could n't find and I 've , in that I 've found what erm a Weight Watcher er menu , so I picked that out , so I 've had erm do n't know what you 'll call it today , boiled egg and toast , eh bread and butter |
| 7 | The side walls were bricked in in a brick skin , they could n't breathe and we 've had to replace as you saw outside , virtually all the timber . |
| 8 | I could n't smile and she did n't know . |