Example sentences of "could n't [be] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs |
| 2 | Erm it may have been deliberate in that how the Par Party could n't be seen as too radical in order to maintain er as broad a support as possible and allow the peasants to erm give them leeway to do what they wanted to do , but erm it 's quite interesting though that whatever the Communist Party did , people were going to respond in which ever way they wanted to whether or not there was a law there , but they still had to sort of erm establish their legitimacy . |
| 3 | ‘ A few people told me it could n't be done but the prep races all fitted into his programme and we would hope to do something along similar lines next time . |
| 4 | When she was away for those ten days I mean certain things just could n't be done because no-one knew |
| 5 | He was tempted to hang up and call the RCO number to see if this was the case , but something told him no ; there was an authentic quality to Reynolds ' agitation that could n't be defined but was nevertheless persuasive . |
| 6 | He allowed himself , or claimed to allow himself , no beliefs about the world which could n't be justified if , if , even if only in a very loose sense , by scientific canons of procedure . |
| 7 | Table 1 : Comparison of the number of working days on which slurry application machines could n't be used because the ground was too wet . |
| 8 | DI 'd through a desk and recorded onto both DAT and cassette utilising the onboard amp simulator , the distortion could n't be described as amazing , but I presume this must be what people expect to hear these days , although to me it does n't sound too close to what you 'd get from a guitar amp . |
| 9 | Besides , you hardly fell any distance ; the fountain could n't be described as high . ’ |
| 10 | If she could n't be found after a meeting people were always instructed " Try the doors " . |
| 11 | She could n't be found when social workers called at the family home . |
| 12 | So long as he was in the limelight , he could n't be attacked or abducted . |
| 13 | I said knew about it , erm , you must have known about it , erm , that standard edition of the complete psychological works of Freud , that 's its title , and you 're one of the editors , one of the editors , I said , there 's no evidence that you ever intended to include this book in it , even though , you know , I understand that it could n't be published as long as Woodrow Wilson 's family was still alive , but erm , you know , why was n't it published in the standard edition ? |
| 14 | But this could n't be helped if I was serious about training Dawn , which I was . |
| 15 | It could n't be helped if she was a pickpocket . |
| 16 | I just wonder erm , if this could n't be helped if you like , by increasing them rather than decreasing them , taking over perhaps some of the , not absolutely statutory , but some of the extra use of staff , and I do n't know if it 's possible , but at the moment I worry because some of the homes are only being inspected and visited by members anyway . |
| 17 | He was n't a bore or a boor , he could n't be typecast or even neatly slotted within the underground , from which he always maintained an apparently effortless sense of distance . |
| 18 | pathetic , it 's gon na freeze up again this afternoon down at Bournemouth , gon na have fish off the pier , go for some bees , but I could n't be bothered but there was nothing , it was too damn cold , it must of been minus five with the wind chill factor |
| 19 | Cos I could n't be bothered and I was n't dressed and it would be going all over to south London . |
| 20 | She could n't be bought and she would n't be forced out of here . |
| 21 | In any case , the past could n't be investigated because the military had granted themselves amnesty from prosecution before handing Cerezo the reins of power . |