Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [pron] could not " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when you were My Princess I could not bear to imagine you stained by me . |
| 2 | The previous evening , I could not have completed the last fifty yards without his help , but now if he had climbed on my back he could not have been more of a hindrance . |
| 3 | For the first time in my life I could not confess all my sins to the priest . |
| 4 | And now the train was taking me to Aunt Louise through the quiet countryside , and in spite of my preoccupation I could not help enjoying the journey . |
| 5 | Without their support we could not have gone very far . |
| 6 | In which case they could not be said to have decided the issue for themselves , let alone for others . |
| 7 | But even in their religion they could not keep together … |
| 8 | This was held to be reasonable during employment but was construed as being too wide post employment as it would prevent the defendant becoming a medical officer of health in which capacity he could not prejudice the plaintiff 's goodwill . |
| 9 | She rolled the liquefying spinach into her cheek she could not spit it out . |
| 10 | The pain was such that in her anger she could not remember how much , or even if , she had loved Edmund . |
| 11 | In the opening stage of their affair she could not keep her column free of the subject of her lover , even indirectly . |
| 12 | Unfortunately because of its size it could not be erm reproduced quickly this morning . |
| 13 | They think their hour is come to close on me , and to deal moderately now would be a thing in their littleness they could not but mistake . |
| 14 | Without their involvement we could not continue with an annual reunion mass . |
| 15 | My parents both have well-paid jobs but without selling their house they could not afford such a sum , and I doubt if many people could . |
| 16 | Had she insisted that I apply leeches to her son I could not have felt more disturbed , more unwilling to assist at this medieval rite . |
| 17 | A well-shaped grey head leaned to peer at her out of concerned hollow eyes , whose colour she could not determine . |
| 18 | It all came back into my mind because of the ball , the spring ball , and the partner whose name I could not remember , although I have remembered now . |
| 19 | In particular I recall how the fellow-student , in that breathless voice of teenage girls , strangled in this case with awe , asked him whether he knew some Italian poet whose name I could not catch . |
| 20 | Murray was removed from the school council , demoted and warned sternly by the headmaster that such a betrayal of the community 's trust was also a betrayal of one 's best self , a suggestion whose subtlety he could not penetrate . |
| 21 | My Spanish cracked in the strain and I unleashed a torrent of verbal abuse whose tone he could not mistake . |
| 22 | Caroline shut her eyes tightly , trying to block out the sudden image of Nicolo and a woman whose face she could not see . |
| 23 | But despite his tiredness he could not sleep . |
| 24 | No Englishman could now have presented himself in Vienna without attracting the attention of the Grand Army , and with his accent he could not have hoped to pass for Austrian . |
| 25 | Not only is there no suggestion in the biographical sources or in documents that Fahreddin Acemi ever held a kadilik , but there is also positive evidence that for long periods in his Muftilik he could not have been kadi of Edirne , at least , since someone else was . |
| 26 | The court also absolved General Jorge Rabanal , who led the operation , on the grounds that from his post he could not see the slaughter of the prisoners . |
| 27 | A vicious stallion had ‘ got the master ’ of his leader who could not do anything with him . |
| 28 | He shook his head a fraction and his gaze slid to the door and back — but even searching the hyacinth radiance around his head she could not guess what he really meant to do . |
| 29 | With his teeth chattering , his mouth bleeding and his hair flattened to his skull he could not have looked less appealing as he presented himself at the front door . |
| 30 | The truth , more probably , is that he laid them aside to take on commissions for which he would be paid : at this stage in his life he could not afford to compose for sheer pleasure . ) |