Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] could not [vb infin] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I 'd been lying on my bed , thinking of you , and suddenly I could n't bear it a moment longer and jumped off the bed intending to phone you — and there you were , looking half drowned and so nervous I was afraid to put a foot wrong . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Basically I could not get enough . |
| 3 | Richards , 40 , said : ‘ I was flattered to receive the offer , but morally I could not accept . |
| 4 | Only I could n't do it . |
| 5 | Only I could n't believe it . |
| 6 | And , you know only I could n't live without that ! |
| 7 | Or perhaps I could n't tell , blood being the same colour as the jersey , but there was no great wet patch . |
| 8 | You , you might think , ooh I do n't really know what I 'm doing at the moment er perhaps I could n't do it on my own . |
| 9 | Obviously I could not relax and take stock in the turret after what had happened , so I worked my way back to the Bible Room , closed the door quietly and lay down in the bunk . |
| 10 | Obviously I could n't wear tops that were short which would show where the belt was , so that summer was terrible . |
| 11 | Oh , if it was bought two or three years ago , well I well obviously I could n't say , but obviously they have the option to read the policy at that point . |
| 12 | Obviously I could n't mime to a voice of seventeen years ago , no way on earth ! |
| 13 | Obviously I could n't follow him up to his front door , but I saw him turn into the grounds . ’ |
| 14 | Personally I could n't give a damn about your private life . ’ |
| 15 | Personally I could n't have cared less if we had n't caught a single rabbit . |
| 16 | Once the door was open it could n't move , so I could n't go down on it . |
| 17 | At my parents house , erm , in that , we 've had an extension in there , so the garden 's not there any more , but erm , I used , the light used to come in from the windows , so of at , at the angle to the bath , so I could n't lift my leg up , so I rub it gently like this , and I 'd watch the told me where I missed bits and |
| 18 | So I could n't bring it in ? |
| 19 | No something so no , sort of , start at lunchtime anyway so I could n't record any lunchtime . |
| 20 | erm , so I could n't carry the wallpaper so the lass says well you ca n't carry it , she says I 'll phone you a taxi , I says okay , so she phoned this , she says any , any particular one , I says I 'll have that one beside us like so phoned association , they 'll be erm , you , you know call up and they came and er pick me up and brought us back with the paper , he charged one pound twenty and I 'm saying to myself one pound twenty , that 's a damn disgrace , by hell I 'll not get that taxi again |
| 21 | So I could n't jack it in when things were going well . |
| 22 | Well , now , I was n't , cos I was on holiday at the last meeting , so I could n't check , I have down Grace , but it was also queried at the time . |
| 23 | Well to be honest Ja I ca n't see that far normally from where I live I can see the White Horse bank but it 's shrouded in mist at the moment erm no I ca n't see so I could n't tell you whether there there is snow up there or not . |
| 24 | And I did n't have any Treas keys so I could n't tell them to use the help service . |
| 25 | and there was this very charming medical student so I could n't tell the golfing joke because I |
| 26 | So I could n't get the swing of it then do you see , for about two or three years . |
| 27 | So I could n't help her there at all . |
| 28 | Not badly , just enough so I could n't focus properly . |
| 29 | So imagine you were writing Jayne here J now it 's a very long name , Jayne and you have to put the title on there too , so I could n't put it all in capital letters on this occasion could I ? |
| 30 | I 'd closed my eyes while she was cutting so I could n't see myself in the mirror . |