Example sentences of "could not [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same realization came to the King , pushed towards his precipice by Hardinge harshly telling him that he could not go on without a decision . |
| 2 | It was burning , fraying at the edges , riddled with violent cancers of nationalism , spite and greed that could not go on without a climax for much longer . |
| 3 | Arsenal , having won the Cup and two Championships in four years , could not go on for much longer with the same team , and in 1933 Chapman 's major concern was to find replacements to keep the club on top . |
| 4 | But it could not go on for ever , both of them knew that . |
| 5 | Then , at a certain moment , I just could not go on with that any longer . |
| 6 | He neither went towards her nor withdrew and she saw it could not go on like that . |
| 7 | Clearly she could not go out through a locked door — so where is she ? ’ |
| 8 | So I always had meat during the rainy months when I could not go out with a gun . |
| 9 | ‘ I was in the war , ’ the poppy-seller at Charing Cross said , to explain why he could not go along with the media insistence that this was a good news story . |
| 10 | The desire of the Cubists to keep closely in touch with visual reality explains Picasso 's uneasiness about his Cadaquès paintings : clearly he could not go back to his earlier , more laborious methods of dealing with form , and yet at a single stroke he had carried the new technique suggested in the work of Braque to something very near complete abstraction . |
| 11 | I could not go back for some time as the Germans had obviously built up their air force to great strength , so I threw in my lot with Fulham church in my rare off-duty times . |
| 12 | I could not go in through the house because of the servants . |
| 13 | Always , though , whether immediately or eventually , she would acquiesce , and I resented her acquiescence , not only because of its consequences for myself , but because I did n't understand why she , an adult , would not or could not stand up to him . |
| 14 | Her balance was very poor ; she could not stand up on her own , because strong associated reactions would pull her left side over ; her left Achilles tendon was extremely tight ; her left shoulder was very painful ; her arm was pulled into a bent position , with the hand tightly closed in a fist ( flexor spasm ) ; she could hardly sit up straight because of the severe spastic muscle pull on the left side of her body ; her mother had to push Dawn everywhere in her wheelchair , and give her total nursing support . |
| 15 | The human will could not stand back from the Great Battle raging in its own soul as well as in the world at large : it had to choose to contend either for God or the Devil . |
| 16 | He held his automatic out sideways , away from his body so that they could not aim in on its flash , and fired two shots at the left-hand headlight of the Dodge . |
| 17 | In a crash , you could not hold on to your baby , or she might be crushed between you and the dashboard or seat . |
| 18 | Sachin Tendulkar moved quickly on to 19 at which stage the Indian was twice put down , first by Mark Nicholas at short cover and then by David Gower who could not hold on to a hot left-handed chance at second slip , the unlucky bowler on both occasions being Connor . |
| 19 | However , for the third time this season , Wantage could not hold on to a lead given them in the last five minutes , and allowed Andy Martin to shoot home for the equaliser for Bicester . |
| 20 | Clearly the town could not hold out without the castle , which the Duke contemptuously dismissed as ‘ an old hen-coop which he would speedily bring down about their ears ’ . |
| 21 | And when the ship was caught , and could not bear up into the wind , we let her drive . |
| 22 | He helped the girl down very deliberately — well aware of Burkett 's calculating and approving regard — and as his fingers pressed on that tensile waist , as her free breasts brushed his over-layered chest , as her thighs carelessly kissed his own , he saw a break in the tight-capped cloud of his misery : but he could not reach out to it . |
| 23 | In Jane 's case , she could not snap out of a lifetime of worry overnight . |
| 24 | It was obviously made to stand up with its foot on something which at first I could not make out for all the dust and dirt but eventually realised was a skull . |
| 25 | I could see by the light of his torch that the cave was deep and spacious ; I could not make out from the beam of light its total dimensions , but clearly a man would have had no problem stretching out to sleep there . |
| 26 | Employers could not pass on in full these extra costs to the consumers because of the competitive international situation , with the result that profitability fell . |
| 27 | They were tired and ill and they could not walk up to the plateau . |
| 28 | I was so disappointed to find out that , because I work for the company , I could not send off for three free tea towels and a £1 gift voucher being offered as part of a Hovis and JS combined promotion . |
| 29 | Lord Williams of Elvel , Labour 's trade and industry spokesman , said trade unionists could contract out of paying a political levy but shareholders could not contract out of paying a donation . |
| 30 | You could not hunch up into the tree , hugging closer to the trunk . |