Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [adv] [vb infin] [art] 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 | Mr Paisley , the politics of Northern Ireland never far from his mind , joked : ‘ Her Majesty mentioned the rain ; I said that was why the grass was so green I could n't get the word orange in . ’ |
| 5 | So when I could n't say a word , so he was able to open the lift door , you see , from outside . |
| 6 | ‘ I could n't understand a word he was saying . ’ |
| 7 | The island dialect was difficult , even for other Greeks , and I could n't understand a word . |
| 8 | I could not use the word though ; its power caught in the back of my throat and held me , voiceless . |
| 9 | It had a red and yellow band on which I could just read the word Cubana . |
| 10 | I suppose I could only use the word tons . |
| 11 | But she could not say a word as he went on in that same tone . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | the Beverley sisters were on and they said they used to wear very daring clothes and the B B C banned them from showing their navels , cos you 're not supposed to show your navel on television and you could n't say the word , oh yeah Lonnie Donegan was on and he said that he was banned from singing this song er in eighty forty was such a little drip and in it he says we beat the bloody British and they would n't let him sing that because he swore so he had to sing we beat the ruddy British |
| 17 | See the first week I went to these schools they could n't speak a word of Punjabi . |
| 18 | He always talked nicely to the Men even though they could not understand a word he said . |
| 19 | He wanted so badly to ask Swan this question , but he could n't speak a word of bird-language . |
| 20 | He could n't understand a word of it . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He knew only because her lips were moving : he could n't hear a word she said . |
| 23 | The Belgian watched the television , of which he could not understand a word . |