Example sentences of "he could not be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A BOY went on a crime spree after realising he could n't be locked up . |
| 2 | He might drive for Italians , but he could n't be made of the right stuff . |
| 3 | Peut-etre Wilko was aussi pissed off with him because he could n't be arsed away from home … |
| 4 | It was n't that he was n't playing well , it just seemed like he could n't be arsed chasing back and helping Kelly out , I do n't know if he was knackered though . |
| 5 | A dealer at Harvard Securities was subject to frequent telephone calls from one elusive Mr Bottomley , who wanted to buy a stake in For Eyes , but who insisted he could n't be contacted on the phone . |
| 6 | So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs |
| 7 | ‘ I shouted for someone to get him out , but I knew instantly that he could n't be saved . |
| 8 | ‘ I shouted for someone to get him out , but I knew instantly that he could n't be saved . |
| 9 | He could n't be seen in his dressing-room ; he could n't be found anywhere on the set ; he was n't in the canteen . |
| 10 | If someone carried a cane he was so scared he could n't be caught ; and if the person did n't carry a cane Moz tried to attack them ! |
| 11 | My real aims were to get through to John and to keep him alive in people 's minds so that he could n't be forgotten . |
| 12 | Bean had a point , even though he could n't be accused of understatement . |
| 13 | One of the councillors on the libraries committee took a copy of Gay News home to study so that he could n't be accused of being uninformed when the time came for him to vote for its rejection . |
| 14 | He could n't be expected to manage much more than an hour on his feet , after which he 'd be living up to his name , although not — Diane hoped — to his reputation . |
| 15 | She prevaricated , wanting the story verified or denied before sharing it with him , but he could n't be expected to know that . |
| 16 | Well , he could n't be expected to shed any tears . |
| 17 | So long as he was in the limelight , he could n't be attacked or abducted . |
| 18 | It had been very different for her but he could n't be held responsible for her folly . |
| 19 | That meant that , unless the one standing to his right was abnormally tall , he could n't be suspended more than about six feet off the ground . |
| 20 | He could n't be seen in his dressing-room ; he could n't be found anywhere on the set ; he was n't in the canteen . |
| 21 | He could n't be found in Aylesbury . |
| 22 | He was n't a bore or a boor , he could n't be typecast or even neatly slotted within the underground , from which he always maintained an apparently effortless sense of distance . |
| 23 | ‘ Climber ’ editor Peter Evans decided he could n't be left out … |
| 24 | He thought of holding one shell back but he could n't be bothered . |
| 25 | He was just as straight about what he did n't want , what he would n't do and what he could n't be bothered to do . |
| 26 | said he could n't be bothered . |
| 27 | Yes , tomorrow , he could n't be bothered going right now . |
| 28 | But suddenly , he could n't be bothered to argue any further , and went back to watching the boxing , storing the argument away carefully in his mind to bring up against her another time . |
| 29 | Yeah , but , no , no , it 's exactly the same as them he could n't be bothered , I mean my mum 's eighty and , and she ca n't get out now and he ca n't |
| 30 | He could n't be bothered you see . |