Example sentences of "[adj] i could [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ma and Pa Pickering tried to probe , but I was sorry I could n't help them . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sorry I could n't telephone first . ’ |
| 3 | Sorry I could n't get some basic staples up at the house for your arrival . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm sorry I could n't see you earlier , Inspector , ’ Nicholson said . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm sorry I could n't stay longer but it was getting rather boring . ’ |
| 6 | " Sorry I could n't ring . |
| 7 | ‘ I mean , I 'm sorry I could n't get through to you on Thursday evening , but I did try , and got cut off . |
| 8 | ‘ Sorry I could n't get the vase , ’ she breathed , ‘ did you manage ? ’ |
| 9 | Sorry I could n't be of more help . |
| 10 | ‘ Sorry I could n't have been more help . ’ |
| 11 | No I 'm s no I 'm sorry I could n't er . |
| 12 | Sorry I could n't quite get that . |
| 13 | I 'm sorry I could n't hear everything that the Maxwell people were saying , sitting behind me , you you 've lost their , their voice and you you know , I could n't hear what they were saying . |
| 14 | Erm , oh the raffle coffee morning I 'm sorry I could n't come , but I was laid low erm how did it go ? |
| 15 | I am sorry I could not help . |
| 16 | I am so sorry I could not revert to the ‘ phone at the very moment you rang on Thursday . |
| 17 | Sorry I could not help about your friend . ’ |
| 18 | This was something so endearing I could n't speak for a moment . |
| 19 | Were my feelings not so strong I could not bring myself to say goodbye . ’ |
| 20 | At times like that I could not care a toss for JTR and wondered why the hell I was in such a situation . |
| 21 | The last time I went there was in 1968 ; after that I could n't go there because I was a British citizen . |
| 22 | After that I could n't get rid of him . |
| 23 | And after that I could n't really get back into it . |
| 24 | After that I could n't see inside any more ; it was too bright . |
| 25 | After that I could n't be touched , of course . |
| 26 | ‘ What has he got that I could n't give you ? ’ he asked in a dull tone that chilled Ruth more than if he had bawled at her . |
| 27 | it then for that lesson , but after that I could n't remember again how to do it |
| 28 | It 's funny how the mind works at a time like this I could n't hear anything so I called : ‘ Warton , Golf Zulu Sierra . |
| 29 | It was the solitude growing around me , growing under me : this I could n't take . |
| 30 | But even this I could not do . |