Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [pron] could not " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there was also another feeling which was something else altogether , and which she could not understand . |
| 2 | There was an overpoweringly strong odour of stale tobacco smoke , and beneath that , other smells which were alien to her nostrils and which she could not identify . |
| 3 | We should have had our case prepared and presented to him , spelling out what we wanted and what we could not accept , before he took his decision . |
| 4 | Torquay Deaf Club suffered some minor damage , but nothing which could not be easily repaired . |
| 5 | They affected to despise her , but they did not find their contempt a strain , whereas the other really bad disciplinarian in the school , a Geography mistress , one Miss Riley , inflicted on them an intolerable suffering , for they felt themselves compelled to torment her , and she would sit before them , thin and pretty and anguished , making vain attempts to restore order , miserably transparent in her misery , and unable to conceal the depths of her humiliation — depths which frightened them , but which they could not leave unplumbed . |
| 6 | It would seem that she and Johnny were to be allowed no souvenirs smuggled from that other world ; that place which their lives could touch but which they could not see . |
| 7 | Coun Brady said the council had capital receipts totalling £13m , which could be used for housing purposes but which they could not touch . |
| 8 | Jane saw her degree as a process of narrowing down , rather than a broadening out ; it shut out the creative , ‘ qualitative ’ aspect of her nature , and presented her with a set of rules and definitions which she had to conform to , or reject , but which she could not challenge . |
| 9 | Or was there a wider , opportunistic yet deeply felt and unreflective vision of ‘ American leadership of the Free World ’ , a vision intoxicating in its sweep but one which could not possibly be presented as compatible with the UN terms ostensibly legitimating the entire operation . |