Example sentences of "but [pron] could [not/n't] [verb] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Och , they 've all got names , but I could not tell you what they are . |
| 2 | ‘ Putney Heath , but I could n't tell you on the telephone . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm sorry , ch'un tzu , but I could n't tell you before . |
| 4 | Some was run somewhere else , but I could n't tell you where now , not offhand . |
| 5 | I 've got an amaryllis , that high , but I could n't tell you high it is in metres . |
| 6 | I kept trying to make you see that something exceptional was happening , but I could n't tell you straight out because love , my darling , left me without defence . |
| 7 | But er when just before I left the polishing which was in nineteen thirty eight , er they were bringing in a lot of cellu it 's all th a lot of all this modern stuff is what they call cellulose , but I could n't tell you how it 's done , it 's done with a spray . |
| 8 | Yeah it is But I could n't tell you ho |
| 9 | But I could n't bear you to think that you were feeling all that on your own . |
| 10 | ‘ I looked for you , but I could n't find you . |
| 11 | I should like to have found you something nicer to do , but I could n't let you go to people we know nothing about , and Mrs Andrews says that her cousin is sure to take care of you . |
| 12 | I wanted to talk to you for the whole journey , but I could n't let you know that , so I just sat there thinking , I 've got to touch her … |
| 13 | But I could n't help you unless you admitted it . |
| 14 | You could hear them , but they could n't hear you . |