Example sentences of "could n't [verb] [conj] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jennie called me into the office and said that I could n't go as she had received a letter from my mother . |
| 2 | We have a big promotion of leisure wear by top French designers ; it 's a chance of a lifetime for any model and one Dana could n't miss once she knew about it . ’ |
| 3 | When in the brilliant sunshine of the morning , Caroline woke to find herself alone , she could n't decide if she felt relieved or dismayed . |
| 4 | Ruth occupied herself with getting settled on the office stool , aware that she could n't speak until she 'd swallowed the ridiculous tightness in her throat . |
| 5 | ‘ No , I really do n't think that , ’ I said , but I could n't tell if she believed me . |
| 6 | ‘ I could n't tell if she knew Matthew Blake or not , could you ? ’ |
| 7 | He could n't tell if she had heard . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Her children could n't understand that she did n't want a different life . |
| 10 | ‘ Gross exaggeration , ’ Fabia laughed , but could n't deny that she had been a great fan of the Czech composers , and still was . |
| 11 | ‘ Unfortunately my wife could n't come because she teaches , but I expect that has curtailed my sightseeing and increased my output . ’ |
| 12 | Sister Ignatia had said that Flora could n't know whether she wanted to come or not until she had had a sniff of the place , seen some of the other girls . |
| 13 | Yet , she could n't say that she disliked him , or the other one , come to that . |
| 14 | He waited what seemed to him rather an excessive ti me for Catherine , but decided , charitably , that you could n't look as she did without pretty regular attention to the overall effect . |
| 15 | I could n't smile and she did n't know . |
| 16 | And I could n't remember whether she said at the end of the three months or |
| 17 | She could n't believe that she had actually thought him human occasionally . |