Example sentences of "but i [adv] could not " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was a feeling of being suspended — it was not a negative feeling and not even a loss to be mourned , but I just could not see a way ahead . |
| 2 | I had been on low-calorie diets and diets out of newspapers , but I just could not stick to them . |
| 3 | Yeah I was really attracted to him but I just could not speak to him , it was awful , and like there used to be awful pauses and you 'd just go er right we 'd better get off with each other again because you ca n't bear the silence , it 's too uncomfortable so you used to , and then you go oh shit better get off with him again , it 's awful , he 's and he used to have such a , no personality at all . |
| 4 | But I simply could not believe that we were not coming back . |
| 5 | Pushing the wheelbarrow should have been child 's play , but I still could not get the hang of it . |