Example sentences of "but [pron] could not [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I knew that I was doing evil things , but I could not stop myself . |
| 2 | But I could not stop myself from more murder . |
| 3 | I tried many times , but I could not do it . |
| 4 | I wanted to answer his question , but I could not tell him my terrible secret . |
| 5 | I knew who the murderer was , but I could not tell anyone . |
| 6 | ‘ Och , they 've all got names , but I could not tell you what they are . |
| 7 | I heard a strange sound coming from the hut , but I could not think what was making the noise . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I stepped back to avoid the overpowering closeness of his face and a little man on the inner circle of the crowd startled me with a friendly smile , but I could not find him again when I looked for him . |
| 10 | I looked for it everywhere but I could not find it . |
| 11 | I wanted a space blanket even more , but I could not take anything from the Land Rover for myself until the next settlement . |
| 12 | There was movement to the side of them , but I could not see what they were doing because of the size of the boulders . |
| 13 | I could hear my wife , Sharon , in the driver 's seat of our Peugeot 405 but I could not see her because my eyes were clouded with blood . |
| 14 | I moved round to the other windows , but I could not see her in any of the rooms . |
| 15 | But you could not blame it all on the place or on the drugs scene . |
| 16 | But you could not save me from those who want to harm me . |
| 17 | But you could not destroy what was inside a man . |
| 18 | He threw a rock down it but you could not hear it strike the bottom … . |
| 19 | She tried very hard to climb up the table leg , but she could not do it . |
| 20 | But she could not make herself care . |
| 21 | But she could not make herself give up . |
| 22 | But she could not tell him her real reason for trying to dissuade him . |
| 23 | She could not tell him about Havvie ; neither could she speak the lie to him , not to Dr Neil , but she could not tell him the truth , for that would mean telling him who she was , and she could not tell him that , not here , not now ; it would spoil everything between them if he knew that she was the spoiled and pampered American Princess . |
| 24 | Damned tears , she thought angrily , but she could not stop them . |
| 25 | It was wrong to do it , she knew , but she could not stop herself . |
| 26 | The triteness and immaturity of her own words and attitudes embarrassed Lee but she could not withhold what streamed out . |
| 27 | Ianthe opened her mouth to speak but she could not bring herself to explain that these were her own Christmas presents . |
| 28 | But she could not hold him off ! |
| 29 | There was something wrong about her scheme but she could not clarify what it was . |
| 30 | As she ran along the track to the road , she had an eerie sense that she was acting out something she had done before , but she could not pin it down until she reached the road and turned right , towards the village . |