Example sentences of "he could [not/n't] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This brought the chucker-out to see what the commotion was about , but luckily he could n't tell what row it had come from because the old woman snatched me up by the hem of my frock and sat me on the seat . |
| 32 | He shouted something , though he could n't tell what it was . |
| 33 | There was something about it that seemed different , but he could n't tell what it was . |
| 34 | I said , ‘ Why ca n't you tell your mother now we 're married she must send her Christmas card to both of us ' ’ , but he could n't tell her . ' |
| 35 | He decided that he could n't tell her about this . |
| 36 | Terry was taken out of the basement and , when he returned , said that he could n't tell us what he was doing . |
| 37 | ‘ He could n't sort himself out of a paper bag ! ’ |
| 38 | He was having problems raising his left arm and he could n't twist his head . |
| 39 | He could n't upstage her , for the piece was carefully staged so that bride and groom were hidden from each other , one each side of the screen and Therese , radiant , controlled , confident , set the atmosphere of the whole scene . |
| 40 | but he could n't hide his sexual inadequacy |
| 41 | He could n't hide his satisfaction . |
| 42 | So , he gave himself a red light on the beautiful Miss Marlowe , only to find he could n't make himself obey it . |
| 43 | He could n't make her out , or himself for that matter . |
| 44 | He could n't make it , ’ Muldoon replied breathlessly . |
| 45 | He could n't make it and asked me to come instead . ’ |
| 46 | My mate weighed it too and he could n't make it grow either . |
| 47 | But he could n't make it more horrible |
| 48 | just gon na have to you know be stopped there anyway this young lad after the first fast bend he went to overtake and I could see a car coming the other way and he was like er running along side this pick-up but it was like he could n't drop back and he could n't make it either |
| 49 | The task was a blessed diversion ; he could n't stop her going , he could only concentrate on turning the bloody old things till they loosened . |
| 50 | Fernando Serra could make all the threats he liked but he could n't stop her carrying on her business . |
| 51 | Even now he could n't stop himself from making a comic routine out of it : looking at his fingers , his face screwed up in disgust , pretending that he 'd found something unspeakably revolting in the depths of his pocket . |
| 52 | He could n't stop himself from shuddering . |
| 53 | He could n't stop himself showing what he felt . |
| 54 | ‘ Eric was so surprised he could n't stop himself from crying . |
| 55 | But , no matter how much Steven made his camera swoop and glide and giddy-up around the sets , he could n't stop them from looking like boring old panto scenery , especially since the galleon never put out to sea ( which would have been too mega-expensive ) , and the Lost Boys ' camp was crammed full of Starlight Express -style skate-boarding tracks . |
| 56 | Exhilarated , Michael dismounted , noticed that the muscles in his legs were twitching , he could n't stop them . |
| 57 | Mike took one look at her furious face , and Ace 's flabbergasted one , and put up a hand to hide his mouth , but he could n't stop his eyes from dancing with amusement . |
| 58 | He was covered in white frost from head to toe and he could n't stop his teeth from chattering . |
| 59 | He could n't stop it . |
| 60 | as if the night was coming in and he could n't stop it . |