Example sentences of "but he could [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The name came from out of his dreams , but he could make nothing of it . |
| 2 | It was a different story after the break with the Witham defence under pressure throughout with Banks saving a penalty , but he could do nothing when a free kick by McCarthy took a deflection on its way into the net . |
| 3 | He tried to see through the net curtain but he could see nothing . |
| 4 | He thrust the lamp in among the mops and brooms , but he could see nothing . |
| 5 | He stared out to sea , but he could see nothing — only the white tops of the great black waves , and the black clouds above . |
| 6 | His eyes were wide open but he could see nothing . |
| 7 | Rostov peered past the screen at the porthole , but he could see nothing of the surface of the planet . |
| 8 | Alexei glanced across the cistern , but he could see nothing . |
| 9 | The light was much dimmer here , but he could see something , a shape , at its centre . |
| 10 | But he could see none . |
| 11 | Later I even appealed to the Member of Parliament for South Edinburgh , then the redoubtable Sir Will Y. Darling , who always made much of his rôle as an old soldier , to use his position to find out what he could ; but he could find nothing . |
| 12 | Kalchu had gone right round it , feeling its legs and back and stomach , but he could find nothing . |
| 13 | But he could hear nothing except a dull roaring in his ears . |