Example sentences of "[adj] but could [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the television debate Mr Goddard sounded like a petulant school master who was sure that a pupil had done something wrong but could n't prove it . |
| 2 | Mair interviewed a clutch of former BR executives who claimed they had been made redundant for pressing their inquiries too closely , and the understandably defensive chairman of British Rail 's Parcels Board , Gordon Pettitt , who admitted that things had gone wrong but could n't see what all the fuss was about . |
| 3 | We gazed long and hard but could not spot the unwelcoming creature , our first true upland species . |
| 4 | The insensitive reviewer had invented and made use of the horrible word ‘ Bowenoid ’ for the stories collected in The Blush — he found them penetrating and subtle but could not forgive Elizabeth for her good fortune in being able to please the simple as well as the highbrow reader . |
| 5 | Marian was tired but could not sleep . |
| 6 | Marian was tired but could not sleep . |
| 7 | She felt desperately tired but could n't yawn . |
| 8 | She became very unhappy but could not express these feelings . |
| 9 | Then , in her attempt to experience more closeness to her husband and to drive him to understand what she felt like but could not make conscious or put into words , she did to him what had been done to her . |
| 10 | Ballymena continued to do all the pressing but could not add further to their tally until the break . |
| 11 | Cambridge players were angry but could not express their views because manager John Beck has banned them from talking to the Press . |
| 12 | The form used was complicated but could not compensate for the deficiencies of information about a population that was still highly mobile and still undergoing the stresses of war . |
| 13 | A further small group of six authorities said that some money was available but could not estimate how much . |
| 14 | She was deadly weary but could not rest . |
| 15 | The Financial Advisers ( now Charles Luker with John Chalcraft ) , juggled to keep things afloat but could not prevent a small deficit in 1943 . |
| 16 | He said the words and knew them to be mostly true but could n't believe them . |