Example sentences of "be [pron] [pron] could not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Damn him for dissembling ; for pretending to Daniel that he was n't wounded to the core at being passed over , pretending that it was only Anna who was suffering , as if it were she who could not bear the lack of advancement , of increased prosperity . |
| 2 | This impression of " specialness " , of contingency , of the event 's occurrence being something which could not have been taken for granted , disappears in the sentence with -ing . |
| 3 | Quite correctly , they reckoned that ministers and central committee secretaries might be expendable to their Boss , but coal-mines were something he could not afford to lose . |
| 4 | I was fascinated to watch this , particularly as at that time this is something I could not do myself . |
| 5 | Equally , the key word in Robyn 's deconstruction of what Silk Cut really means is one which could not be spoken on television . |
| 6 | But it was nothing she could not set right . |
| 7 | She spent the greater part of her working life trying to understand people 's needs , but the need for a God who would comfort and console and right wrongs — in the next life if not in this — although she might understand it , was something she could not uphold . |
| 8 | It was something she could not understand , something she never intended to do . |
| 9 | Her imagined crime was something she could not tell her beloved and admired brother , and without that there had been nobody at all . |
| 10 | Even her mother 's " Pull yourself together " remarks began to drag her down as she recognised that that was something she could not do . |
| 11 | It was nothing , she protested , it was something she could not control today , it did not mean she thought the less of him , or their sex together . |
| 12 | But that was something he could not possibly admit . |
| 13 | She had brought Sarah Fleming into his life , which was something he could not forget . |
| 14 | Harry believed it , too , and pity from Isambard was something he could not and would not bear ; the mere thought of giving his enemy that satisfaction made his jaws set desperately to prevent the emergence of even one word or sound that might be mistaken for an appeal . |
| 15 | That was something I could not live with . |
| 16 | I was no longer a part of it , but this was something I could not , in my insecurity and because of my ingrained family loyalty , admit even to myself . |
| 17 | Happily , we lived in a much more enlightened time during World War 2 , I never understood the treatment of LMF cases ; it was something I could not understand as outlined in the Air Ministry Order , which was a very harsh document and did not give much leeway in the treatment of a chap if he felt he could not do any more . |
| 18 | There was one I could not save . ’ |
| 19 | Or maybe utterly sane , perhaps it was he who could not come to grips with the topsy-turvy world they all now lived in , Edward thought . |
| 20 | Could it be that this was what he could not get from Bella ? |