Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I did it through the love , fo , that I had for the couple , and that because they had waited sixteen year before they eventually found out they could n't have children ! |
| 2 | God alone knew what the girl did after the golden boy had gone off to sell his 57 varieties , heaven only knew why she could n't get herself dressed before ten o'clock . |
| 3 | ‘ When I heard rumours that this version of Swan Lake was pornographic I just wondered why they could n't pick on some other composer . |
| 4 | Sometimes I would have a gull and a crow but , whether they were the same species or not , they quickly found out they could n't fly properly — though the twine was long enough in theory — and ended up ( after a few hilariously clumsy aerobatics ) fighting . |
| 5 | When she partially woke again she could smell honeysuckle and new-mown grass in the churchyard . |
| 6 | I got ta make a dozen mince pies for the , she said can you make a dozen mince for the , I said no Sheila , she said pardon , I said no , I said I 'd buy twelve I will not make twelve , so after that she 's , then went round everybody could make twelve mince pies , it 's a bit of a nerve is n't it ? , seems a bit of a nerve asking us to buy the wool and make |
| 7 | The desk was a chaos of open books — she never understood how he could read so many at once . |
| 8 | Miranda fleetingly wondered how she could ever have thought that Adam had a withholding , guarded nature . |