Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] could not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose it was this that made Richard think I could not manage Flora 's job . |
| 2 | Haughtily I will now declare that even if asked I could not endorse anything in which I did not believe . |
| 3 | One girl was a hard , chain-smoking sales machine letting me know I could not set up a multi-national congress without multi-national advertising . |
| 4 | I was about to add his son had been an excellent patient , and found I could not do it . |
| 5 | ‘ I found I could not afford it so I pulled out , ’ he said . |
| 6 | In the ‘ He had green parakeets ’ opening she could not understand how the bird would get into the cage with his wings spread . |
| 7 | She , and could , found she could not fly and laid there looking at the sky . |
| 8 | She found she could not look up at him . |
| 9 | Pete was in her form at school and whenever she looked at him little quivers she could not identify started deep inside her . |
| 10 | ‘ I never saw one thing she wanted that did not sell , ’ but nonetheless insisted that this undisciplined approach was unacceptable for a customer trying to furnish a house , who might have kept a sample for six weeks only to find she could not reorder the same fabric . |
| 11 | Her latest ally , Soviet Russia , was reeling under Hitler 's onslaught and it was widely expected she could not last out the year . |
| 12 | But no matter how much she tried she could not prevent the shift in perceptions towards her . |
| 13 | But almost as soon as our church team was formed , with the desire of being a marvellous example of love in action , we found we could not get on together , let alone with the world ! |
| 14 | If he had n't agreed to appear we could not have raised the cash to make the show . ’ |
| 15 | The 44-year-old composer said : ‘ When they let me know they could not afford to pay more than £6 million , I realised we had to step in to save it for the nation . |
| 16 | Furthermore W. 's foster parents indicated at about this time that if W. were discharged they could not continue to offer her a home . |
| 17 | They are largely women who have got to the top in other careers and found they could not go any further . |
| 18 | But it had obvious difficulties for many students who found they could not manage both love affairs and study . |
| 19 | Customers taking bikes to the shop for repair or picking up new cycles found they could not park near the shop . |
| 20 | The discovery was made at 11.30am after staff arrived at the pub and found they could not get in . |
| 21 | Robert Converse who was not in this heat reported he could not pull the usual manifold pressure he uses when racing . |
| 22 | The next day he went to work , but found he could not concentrate and returned home without telling anyone . |
| 23 | He could control his left arm on the handlebar when riding a push-bike , but he found he could not use an exercise bicycle because the effort involved automatically increased his spasticity beyond his control . |
| 24 | It was then he found he could not get out of the finance deal . |
| 25 | In an interview with the popular intellectual magazine Magill in June , Archbishop MacNamara found he could not accept that the state had the power to determine the meaning and nature of marriage and compared the effects of divorce to the recent Chernobyl nuclear disaster . |
| 26 | A rising could be put down ; even though the BNA might dissolve into guerrilla bands it could not hope to take over the country . |
| 27 | Some large firms have found it impossible to match competitors ' spending : Jaguar found it could not afford the costs of developing the next generation of engines and models and was forced to sell out to Ford in 1989 for £1.6 billion . |
| 28 | Even though I 've got the option of not doing it , I do n't really feel I could not do it , because I feel I ought to do it . |
| 29 | Of the second here illustrated , the Moss Provence , Miller said that it had not long been known in London and the first time he saw it ‘ was in 1727 in the garden of Dr Boerhaave near Leyden who was so good as to give me one of the plants , but from where it came I could not learn . |
| 30 | It was about then that I noticed I could not touch the bottom and I felt myself going faster downstream than I was going across . |