Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [adv] [verb] a word " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I arrived I could n't speak a word of Spanish , did n't know anything about the photographic scene in Madrid and had never worked as a professional photographer before , so it was n't the easiest of situations to begin with . ’ |
| 2 | but on Monday I could n't speak a word |
| 3 | Half an hour later : Z : " I could n't get a word in edgeways " , muttered as he managed finally to get away . |
| 4 | So when I could n't say a word , so he was able to open the lift door , you see , from outside . |
| 5 | ‘ I could n't understand a word he was saying . ’ |
| 6 | The island dialect was difficult , even for other Greeks , and I could n't understand a word . |
| 7 | But she could not say a word as he went on in that same tone . |
| 8 | It was half way through , and she could not understand a word of the dialogue and was surprised and rather indignant that she could not understand , for she had genuinely looked forward , with half of herself , to seeing a picture : as it was , she found herself obliged to concentrate on the other aspects of the affair . |
| 9 | You ca n't hear a thing , deaf as the , deaf as a post , and does n't wear any thing , I feel it 's very one side conversation because he , he says all the talking and they ca n't muck in almost unbearable , cos she likes to talk a lot to and she could n't get a word in because |
| 10 | She found Clelia 's company extraordinarily entertaining , and bracing only in so far as she liked to be braced : she could hardly follow a word , for instance , of the art references in her conversation , but Clelia managed somehow to combine a great air of erudition and abstruseness with a marked facility for making explanations , so that ignorance was no bar to amusement . |
| 11 | Rufus had forgotten how often he castigated the press for inaccuracy , how he constantly said to Marigold that you could n't believe a word you read . |
| 12 | See the first week I went to these schools they could n't speak a word of Punjabi . |
| 13 | He always talked nicely to the Men even though they could not understand a word he said . |
| 14 | He wanted so badly to ask Swan this question , but he could n't speak a word of bird-language . |
| 15 | He could n't understand a word of it . |
| 16 | They rattled and clanked so that Charles had to shout to his Sergeant that he could n't hear a word the man was saying . |
| 17 | He knew only because her lips were moving : he could n't hear a word she said . |
| 18 | The Belgian watched the television , of which he could not understand a word . |