Example sentences of "n't [verb] [subord] [pron] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't wait until she could turn the full force of her disapproval on me . |
| 2 | She did n't know whether they could get a mortgage or not . |
| 3 | I did n't know whether he could pull it off . |
| 4 | You see , the poor did n't know whether he could afford the contract or not . |
| 5 | He did n't know whether he could trust Lee not to nick them . |
| 6 | I do n't know whether I could manage to make mad passionate love to anybody now . |
| 7 | Cale also had misgivings about setting Thomas 's poems to music , ‘ because they sound really beautiful and I did n't know whether I could take something with so much noise in them , so much built-in jazz , and maintain it . ’ |
| 8 | I do n't know whether I could afford all those leather jackets . |
| 9 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 10 | Do n't know if we could hold them to , to it . |
| 11 | She did n't know if she could bear that . |
| 12 | and you can probably do , I do n't know if you could do print screen , no , if you got , you 'll have to learn graphics , but anyway , I 'll tell you about that when , when you do it , my numbers in there , take all the rubbish away . |
| 13 | No I did n't know if you could walk if there 's any short cuts if you wanted to walk into town . |
| 14 | ‘ I would n't know if you could understand it , but it is a strange feeling for a sailor to sink a ship — for a split second you have the idea , should I or should n't I ? |
| 15 | it 's only last night , I did n't know if you could hear , it come on three times and they were nobody there ! |
| 16 | There was something he had to do , and he did n't know if he could find the courage . |
| 17 | ‘ Sorry , ’ said Benny , ‘ I did n't know if I could walk or not . ’ |
| 18 | I did n't know if I could go through with it . |
| 19 | Do n't know if I could do the electric one definitely Guess that 's about whether the I 'd like one of them , one of them and yeah but we do n't know when it can be delivered , so we ca n't do it that early you ca n't say yeah but but er we 'll let you know , well we can so it 's there that 's what we wish , they 'd the bills go and we 'll let you know when you can be the keys can be available for you to put it in . |
| 20 | I did n't know if I could work with a choreographer . |
| 21 | Well , it makes a very good tale , only I do n't know if I could remember any of it ’ He beamed on Taliesin , and then said in an aside to Fribble that he had never yet heard of a Tyrian who did n't judge his wine remarkably well . |
| 22 | One could n't survive unless one could believe one could , and belief had leaked out of me , gone with sweat and pain and weakness into the wind . |
| 23 | He did n't look like he could do anything more strenuous than spit out a grape-pip . |
| 24 | Julia could n't sleep because she could smell them in her room , so she came into my room to talk to me . |
| 25 | But we still could n't tell whether he could sing or not . |
| 26 | Sam said he agreed and that I should n't worry because he could get that out of her . |
| 27 | I did n't ask if they could tell the sex yet , because I do n't want to know . |