Example sentences of "could not [verb] [pron] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even marriage could not cure him of all his anxieties , and it is salutary to remember that , in some situations , he was as frightened of other people as they were of him : he often seemed shy and hesitant in conversation still . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't — yes , I could do that , ’ said Caspar , who could not do it at all , but could see that there was no other answer to be given . |
| 3 | But when I later tried to find my way back to the dining-room to finish my meal , which should have been a simple thing to do , I just could not locate it at all . |
| 4 | She could not feel anything at all — the anaesthetic having done its job — and she could not see anything as her eyes were tightly closed . |
| 5 | Often they could not find them at all . |
| 6 | My parents had died when I was a baby , so I could not remember them at all , but quite often I used to visit the churchyard , about a mile from the village , to look at their names on their gravestones . |
| 7 | But she could not remember anything at all about them . |