Example sentences of "[pers pn] could n't have [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knows how I feel , me being an only child … he 's a wonderful husband , I could n't have a better husband . |
| 2 | I could n't have a better head groom . |
| 3 | " I could n't have a worse offer if I lived to be a hundred . |
| 4 | ‘ I could n't have a quick look through it , then ? ’ she said hopefully . |
| 5 | I moved up to there , and I want to bring everybody up to my new level , so I sort of drag everybody up , but I always thought it was just the , the inertia effect , you know , that I could n't have a mental and physical and moral energy to last everybody out wh , while they would change effectively . |
| 6 | I could n't have a quarter of it . |
| 7 | I must admit , it 's never ever let me down but I mean , they know if ever they said I could n't have no money I 'd cause one hell of a stink you know ! |
| 8 | I could n't have the baby in there , for example . |
| 9 | ‘ He proceeded to spend four minutes telling me why I could n't have the job , and then said , ‘ I 'm sorry , my time is more or less up now ’ . |
| 10 | She could n't have er she could n't have a feather pillow . |
| 11 | cos this was Croydon I 'm pretty sure it yeah because otherwise she could n't have the basic from last year would she ? |
| 12 | ‘ You could n't have a fairer face than Mary Bernadette Hogan , spinster of this parish , almost ten years of age , ’ said her father . |
| 13 | I mean you could n't have a meeting with the whole Catholic Church for example to decide on doctrine . |
| 14 | I do n't know Ian , but I do know Joanna , and you could n't have a more loyal friend . |
| 15 | You could n't have a discussion |
| 16 | Well , equally you could n't have an A T C Squadron in every small town or village in the country , and therefore they 've got to be , I mean , just as much as Otter Valley Boxing Club has extended its range to get more people , so the A T C have to be in some particular place . |
| 17 | When it was being drawn up ‘ we agreed we could n't have a cash limit and we never said there would be a cash limit ’ . |
| 18 | We could n't have a social issue without reference to the regular social side of our NCT branch and have therefore emphasised the purpose of these meetings in this issue . |
| 19 | Having done a railway trip together to the West Somerset Railway to celebrate our Silver Wedding anniversary , at a time when we could n't have a party , my wife and I recently held a belated one at the Gwili Railway , ably assisted by family , friends and some members of the BCRS committee . |
| 20 | ‘ Our children play out on the street and there 's a plan to build a school on land nearby surely we could n't have a busy road where children are going to school ? ’ |
| 21 | The house was identified and purchased , and I do n't see any reason why we could n't have a stay of two or three days or a week to get time to move things properly . ’ |
| 22 | We could n't have the lights on . |
| 23 | They could n't have a season without him , but quite definitely they could n't have one without Busacher either . |
| 24 | They could n't have a better time to do it . |
| 25 | We said they could n't have the corpse if we did n't get it — that 's by the by — but it 's understood by both sides that this is the last of such meetings . |
| 26 | And then a fortnight before the end of the , the summer holidays they were told they could n't have the dining hall because the day after the Freemasons were having their |
| 27 | They could n't have an ordinary one cos it would hang down . |
| 28 | When they said he could n't have a parrot he 'd said ‘ Well , mice , then , white ones , ’ but his Dad had said he could n't have them either . |
| 29 | I like to think I am broad-minded , but the language my father used was beyond the pale , and all because he could n't have a shave ! |
| 30 | Oh so he could n't have a smoke ? |