Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] i could [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were my feelings not so strong I could not bring myself to say goodbye . ’ |
| 2 | This was something so endearing I could n't speak for a moment . |
| 3 | I am so sorry I could not revert to the ‘ phone at the very moment you rang on Thursday . |
| 4 | the water stood so clear I could not gauge |
| 5 | I was born a poor black boy down in Mississippi , out in Alabama and he 's like a jet white ai n't he ? and he says I always felt different cos all the other kids they just sit there and they 'd be tapping their feet and then you go onto the oh and they 're getting the old rhythm going , like they do and he 'd be going like I all so different I could n't quite do this and he used to get in look , and er |
| 6 | By this time , my temperature and blood pressure was so high I could not even be given a proper anaesthetic . |
| 7 | ‘ I did get some interviews but I would be so paralysed I could n't do myself justice . |
| 8 | But I was so nervous I could n't get it out properly . |
| 9 | It was so obvious I could n't imagine why I had n't seen it before . |
| 10 | At one point I felt as if I was drifting slowly across a huge , vivid moviescreen , so large I could n't see its edges . |
| 11 | And when it was so deep I could n't see the bottom , Old Bolton 's prize sow , you know the one who had borne so many litters , there was no space atween her belly and the ground . |
| 12 | But the trouble was , he was so vile I could n't respect him . |
| 13 | Now that there was somebody else here , the thought of going back , the thought of the house and the valley being empty again — this time forever , I was sure of that — seemed so terrible I could not bear it . |
| 14 | ‘ And I was so blind I could n't see it . ’ |
| 15 | She says I was so shocked I could n't believe it … |
| 16 | It was so overwhelming I could n't do anything about it , ’ she says . |
| 17 | Indeed this latest move to de-mystify Her Majesty was so unconvincing I could n't help but wonder if — at any moment — Beadle himself ( albeit heavily disguised ) might not appear beside the Queen to inform her that she had been framed . |
| 18 | Mr Paisley , the politics of Northern Ireland never far from his mind , joked : ‘ Her Majesty mentioned the rain ; I said that was why the grass was so green I could n't get the word orange in . ’ |
| 19 | He sounded so pompous I could n't help giggling . |
| 20 | I could n't raise my wrist up without losing all feeling in my hand , and at times the pain was so intense I could n't sleep . |
| 21 | The best time was in the winter when the snow was so bad I could n't walk the mile across the fields to school . |
| 22 | I got so bad I could n't do it so I gave up . |
| 23 | But it was so fleeting I could n't be sure . |
| 24 | As ex-Servicemen , they had not only dealt with the situations I feared most , but also those I could not imagine . |
| 25 | But even this I could not do . |