Example sentences of "he [adv] could [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had control of all Stanley 's finances , as he obviously could not manage them himself . |
| 2 | He obviously could n't give a damn what she did , tucked away in his cosy room , dressed in his nice dry clothes . |
| 3 | He personally could n't give a monkey 's whether I went out or.not as long as the CID boys knew where they could get me . |
| 4 | After 1174 , however , Henry hoped that the presence of his sons in different parts of the empire would in some measure provide the mobility , flexibility and speed of response which he alone could not give . |
| 5 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 6 | She said he just could n't sleep in there . |
| 7 | Freud 's he just could n't speak Hebrew , he could only speak in Egyptian and so on and so on . |
| 8 | He just could n't stop so he swerved out you see and lost control |
| 9 | And all the way back he just could n't stop laughing ! |
| 10 | So whenever he tried to explain any musical idea he just could n't make his bands understand . |
| 11 | He just could n't bear it . ’ |
| 12 | He just could n't eat the amount of fruit and vegetables he had tucked into before . |
| 13 | WITH those golden curls and blue , blue eyes , he just could n't miss . |
| 14 | He just COULD N'T think why Scruffy had fought him . |
| 15 | ‘ Broadminded ’ was a popular word , a word he just could n't understand . |
| 16 | There was no physical manifestation of this , he just could n't remember anything . |
| 17 | He just could n't help himself . ’ |
| 18 | But as he could n't play it that well , he just could n't get his ideas across . |
| 19 | He just could n't get a decent length to putt to fall , and I felt it was getting to him . |
| 20 | He just could n't get it out of his mind , not for one second . |
| 21 | and he could n't a job and then , I me I mean , he tried for apprenticeships all over the place and other jobs and he just could n't get one ! |
| 22 | I am not gon na move over and I am going at my own pace , so I slowed down to about twenty miles an hour and it 's a road about four miles long and er he just could n't get past , you know ? |
| 23 | Great run again by Mickey , did ever so well , came inside , knocked a good ball into , unfortunately he just could n't get hold of it and the goalkeeper came out and collected it . |
| 24 | ‘ We had a drummer and he just could n't cut it . |
| 25 | He just could n't take it . |
| 26 | Instead she had leant even more on him and he just could n't take it , so had chosen the easy way out . |
| 27 | He had , he knew his stuff obviously , but he — I mean the fact , the way looked on Goudy and that whole thing , he just could n't take himself beyond that certain . |
| 28 | ‘ He just could n't believe there was that much money in the world and it was coming to him , ’ said Sybil at the time . |
| 29 | Convena did all his work and they asked him to go to London you know , there 's some was on years ago so he goes to the headquarters and he said he just could n't believe it , he turned on him and said you 're a shallow bloody hypocrite he said ! |
| 30 | And then he just could n't afford to live there , and he had to sell it . |