Example sentences of "just could [not/n't] [vb infin] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she knew then that , plagued and plagued again by the same thought during her fretful waking night-time hours , she just could not leave it . |
| 2 | I just could not do it , somehow . |
| 3 | But when I later tried to find my way back to the dining-room to finish my meal , which should have been a simple thing to do , I just could not locate it at all . |
| 4 | and I 've had that taken out because I could n't , I just could not stand it especially in hot weather ! |
| 5 | When it happened to me I just could not believe it . |
| 6 | But Leith just could not believe it . |
| 7 | I just could n't eat it . |
| 8 | Just could n't eat it , I sa it was all |
| 9 | We did n't exactly get the bird but they just could n't handle it — they did n't know what sort of music we were playing . |
| 10 | I just could n't handle it any more . |
| 11 | Er mental torture , I just could n't handle it no more . |
| 12 | I just could n't bear it any more . |
| 13 | He just could n't bear it . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I just could n't bear it , ’ she recalls . |
| 15 | I do n't go when he 's there ; I just could n't bear it . |
| 16 | I just could n't avoid it , really . |
| 17 | When talking of what is much discussed in East Berlin as ‘ the China solution ’ , an elderly woman at the Church of the Saviour expressed a widely-held view when she declared : ‘ The authorities just could n't do it . |
| 18 | In fact we just could n't do it . |
| 19 | So I wanted to progress and I just could n't do it . |
| 20 | Then I got stuck : I just could n't do it . ’ |
| 21 | I just could n't do it . |
| 22 | And er we just could n't do it . |
| 23 | No , I just could n't do it . ’ |
| 24 | Just could n't do it . |
| 25 | Mm and what would happen if it came to the end of the quarter and you had so much money accumulated to pay on your Co book , for stuff that you 'd got over the quarter , and you just could n't pay it ? |
| 26 | No , I was n't gon na use it , I just could n't leave it in that boarding house for Rachel to unpack . |
| 27 | If only I were capable of taking over Swift myself , but I 'm not , I never was , I never will be — I just could n't face it , all the pressure , the ruthless cut-throat ambition of everyone trying to stab me in the back and take my place … |
| 28 | Suddenly I just could n't stand it any longer and said I 've GOT to push and she came out like a champagne cork at 8.15 a.m . |
| 29 | ‘ I just could n't stand it . |
| 30 | ‘ I just could n't stand it any more back in Bes Pelargic , ’ Twoflower went on blithely , ‘ sitting at a desk all day , just adding up columns of figures , just a pension to look forward to at the end of it … where 's the romance in that ? |