Example sentences of "[that] [pron] could [not/n't] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that women in yours other week that I could n't do this save , I 'm sorry sir but you 're under sixty five . |
| 2 | No , I ju I just had a look at that I could n't do anything . |
| 3 | Before I knew where I was , I had been wagered a great deal of money that I could not do it , and shortly before midnight I was leaving the hallowed portals of Ronnie Scott 's Club . |
| 4 | If you were to come yourself Lily or the child 's Father I could not stand in your way whatever my feelings which are strong , but to hand over my Precious little one to a Young and Foreign girl who spoke his only language poorly that I could not do and send him with her on a dangerous voyage most frightening to him . |
| 5 | But she was n't sure what it was that she could n't do . |
| 6 | It was hard to believe that this was actually happening ; harder still to accept that she could n't do anything about it . |
| 7 | It would be easy to tell him the truth but that would mean throwing Dana to the wolves , and that she could n't do . |
| 8 | It would be like amputating part of herself , and she knew suddenly , and quite clearly , that she could n't do it . |
| 9 | Very well , dictated that part of her that was against gloom and pushed her again towards the positive , since it was decided that she could n't do anything that day about the one major problem — her car — how about tackling her other major problem — that interview ? |
| 10 | She knew that she could not do it alone . |
| 11 | To her mistress it was understandable that she should never speak absolutely freely but it was intolerable that she could not do so to the last remaining member of her family , nor even to her husband . |
| 12 | Her parents felt that she was being difficult and kept presenting her with toys and activities that she could not do . |
| 13 | As the girls changed for the dance , giggling , excited , she had moments when she thought that she could not do it , that she would prefer to go in her skirt and jersey . |
| 14 | She tried to skim again , but her tears fell so that she could not do it . |
| 15 | The restructuring school answered that you could not do that anyway , because the importance of a variable precisely depended on the wider context in which it was operating , but the most important contextual reason was probably manufacturing industry 's need to cut costs in face of newly increasing competition . |
| 16 | Or was it the pleasure of having men 's eyes on you that you could not do without ? ’ |
| 17 | It means you can pack in a lot more things in your day , you can work , you can look after your children , you can take them out , you can do a lot of things that you could n't do otherwise . |
| 18 | ’ Anne exclaimed , and her mother said , ‘ Did you explain that you could n't do it , Bridie ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , and you also told me , yesterday , that you could n't do a thing about it . ’ |
| 20 | Richard Kerr is consultant neurosurgeon there , Richard tell me a bit about this , what , what sort of things does it allow you to do now that you could n't do in , in the past ? |
| 21 | No , no , that would n't worry me , I just , I said when we got rid of our other sideboard let's do without one and then I looked round and thought well what the dickens am I going to do with all this stuff that we 've got and I just found that we could n't do without it . |
| 22 | Fritz wanted to do something immediately about Black Michael and his men , but Sapt and I realized that we could not do anything openly . |
| 23 | I saw her and I , I be honest with you I hid , I be totally honest and I 'll tell her the same if I see her because I 've just found out then that they could n't do any more for me dad and I really did n't want to speak or see anybody and I sat in the canteen on my own , I just said to me mum , mum on the phone I said mum I need to do this on my own I said I 'm just gon na have a coffee in the cafeteria and I do n't know if you 've been in there but the cafeteria is all glass and she pulled up in a white van delivering something to the office , I thought oh no it 's Jenny she 's the last bleeding person I want there , I do n't mean that |
| 24 | erm I suppose that would mean if they felt they were taking up so much of their time that they could n't do what they considered to be their job properly , and if they felt that I think the parents were persisting and insisting that their own children got more attention than the school could really afford to give them if they were going to be fair to everyone . |
| 25 | I would n't say that they could n't do proper experiments at school , I do n't think that 's right . |
| 26 | Mark , aware of the problem , records that the reaction of the chief priests and Scribes was to look for some way to get rid of Jesus , but that they could not do so at that moment because Jesus was popular with the people . |
| 27 | They decided , however , that they could not do this during the coming festival of Passover because Jesus was still popular among the people and they did not want to cause unrest . |
| 28 | It refused as it knew that it could not do so and survive at home . |
| 29 | It stated clearly that a flat rate charge could not cope with the scale of local authority expenditure and that it could not do so fairly . |
| 30 | But the chairman , Ewan Murray , said that he could not do so without permission from the AAA . |