Example sentences of "they could not [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The suggestion at the time that the Labour Party had been behind Profumo 's downfall was a little unfair to many members who repeatedly expressed their misgivings about the scandalous imputations , which several of them could not regard as a proper currency for a political difference . |
| 2 | Since they could n't talk about that , they preferred not to talk at all . |
| 3 | They could n't talk to me . |
| 4 | until one day they could n't think of any way that you could may improve it . |
| 5 | 11 out of the 20 forms returned left blanks here and two said they could n't think of anything to say . |
| 6 | They must be " conceivable " in terms of our cognitive theory otherwise they could n't arise at all , or if they did , would refute our theory ( see below ) . |
| 7 | Making them think there was nothing they could n't do with their own lives , and other people 's . |
| 8 | All the same , Jane stayed on to within a month of the birth because they could n't do without her and she needed the money . |
| 9 | ‘ Some people reckon they could n't distinguish between the mascots and the players before kick-off , and that 's a tribute to the youngsters who took care of Liverpool . |
| 10 | And in my view what they could n't achieve on that night in Parliament in the nineteen forties is now being achieved by stealth , slicing bits and pieces away as they go along . |
| 11 | Talk of magic in the Western World as a spent force : self-congratulatory accounts of cults that had been infiltrated , and discovered to be groups of pseudo-scientists exchanging arcane theories in a language no two of them agreed upon , or sexual obsessives using the excuse of workings to demand favours they could n't seduce from their partners or , most often , crazies in search of some mythology , however ludicrous , to keep them from complete psychosis . |
| 12 | It would be especially bad for the old folk who ca n't walk very far — they could n't walk to a bus stop outside the estate could they ? |
| 13 | And often it 's not that they never had anywhere to live , it 's just that they could n't cope with the responsibilities and the isolation of living on their own . |
| 14 | Both hardened internationals , they could n't cope with John Fashanu and Robbie Earle as they plundered the first and third goals for Dons . |
| 15 | He says : ‘ The wee man was simply dynamite against Spain ; they could n't cope with him . ’ |
| 16 | Some of the people who had suddenly become saleswomen , they had to go , because they could n't cope with that . |
| 17 | They were pretty good at making appointments but they could n't cope with sales , and there 's been a tremendous change in that over the last two years . |
| 18 | They say : It 's a very good home and they could n't cope with moving . |
| 19 | And some of them , of course , emigrated to the United States because they could n't cope with life back in the old lands , the Shakers , are they part of the same sort |
| 20 | They could n't cope with a teddy bear . |
| 21 | ‘ They enacted his lifestyle , hiding away on their own and having breakdowns over it just because they could n't relate to people ! ’ |
| 22 | Well they could n't score in the Premier League last season which is why they came down , they still ca n't score . |
| 23 | When we all went to the pub and some of them went up and got non-alcoholic drinks and that , and they all said they could n't go into a pub and do that and they done it , no problem . |
| 24 | The pause after the first shot making sure they 'd killed him which is n't easy to do with a heart shot but they could n't go for the head because the sight line would n't fit with shooting at the President 's head — ’ |
| 25 | They could n't go to central personnel ? |
| 26 | Well it so happened that two of the aircrewmen were burnt enough , not real serious , but burned enough that they had to use the ground spare from another squadron , they could n't go on the mission . |
| 27 | It was an open secret that unless they found some other client of similar credibility and budget appropriation they could n't continue in business . ’ |
| 28 | But even they could n't dance to the music . |
| 29 | You see , they could n't rely on the local beys not to forget it had been abolished . |
| 30 | ‘ They could n't deal with someone like me , ’ he says . |