Example sentences of "but [pron] could [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I could see nothing anomalous , no movement . |
| 2 | I found the door unlocked as I had given my master the key before I left ; the light was poor but I could see nothing had been disturbed so lay down on the bed , pulling the curtains around me . |
| 3 | I pressed my head close against one comer of the barred window trying to see who was speaking , but I could see no-one . |
| 4 | I looked round for my friends , but I could see nobody . |
| 5 | I had heard something about it once or seen it on a map , but I could remember nothing definite . |
| 6 | ‘ By the time you found me on the moor , I knew everything , but I could prove nothing . |
| 7 | I mean , well if you have n't got gauze in your first aid box , but you could have something like a Mediwipe or you might be able to use , open up your bandage and you can use , you know , several pieces of this , just keep going down the bandage and then you know clean it and get rid of that bit , okay , another clean bit okay , so you can adapt with whatever you 've got in your first aid box , yes , and you wo n't necessarily have scissors to hand so you 'll have to do whatever you 've got and the little Mediwipes are very useful for that , but do n't use one Mediwipe for seventy five grazes , okay , one Mediwipe for one wipe and then discard , okay ? |
| 8 | Yeah but you could put something with it if you wanted . |
| 9 | But she could do nothing about it . |
| 10 | But she could do nothing , while Sylvie 's presence drew everyone like a charm . |
| 11 | She knew Guy could feel the sudden acceleration of her pulse , but she could do nothing to stop the traitorous throbbing . |
| 12 | But she could do nothing about it ; she was frozen , inside and out . |
| 13 | Ruth kept her distance from him but she could do nothing about the wretched aura that surrounded him . |
| 14 | Marie crouched down to peer through one of the slits but she could see nothing , only blackness inside . |
| 15 | But she could see nothing , because of the salt and rain on the glass . |
| 16 | She tried to look over her shoulder , to see the face of the driver , to mouth some kind of warning to him but she could see nothing . |
| 17 | Again she glanced at the windscreen of the other car but she could see nothing through the darkened glass . |
| 18 | And so she continued , through three years , through a series of such violent changes ; she inspected herself anxiously from time to time for signs of manic-depression or schizophrenia , but she could find nothing but symptoms of increasingly quick recovery . |
| 19 | She was somebody who had mild short-term memory loss , which varied from day to day but she could remember anything about the past . |
| 20 | But we could do nothing with that English nose of yours . |
| 21 | I called my stepfather , who tried to help her , but we could do nothing . |
| 22 | Benjamin studied some of these and so did I but we could discover nothing amiss . |
| 23 | It were 'ard to see , but we could 'ear someone screamin " . |
| 24 | Here we were in a dangerous border area , and our campsite was vitally indefensible , but we could find none better . |
| 25 | But we could get somebody who knows something about to come and advise . |
| 26 | By moving the hatch a fraction of an inch we could hear what went on below , but we could see nothing . |
| 27 | They might suspect — but they could prove nothing . ’ |
| 28 | The questions were pressed but they could get nothing more definite : ‘ It looked like a woman . ’ |
| 29 | Outside , shapes began to materialize — heads , implements — they wanted to recognize friends but they could see nothing but shawls , cloaks , silhouettes . |
| 30 | The Shuttle did n't look much closer , but they could see plenty of other activity . |