Example sentences of "could n't [vb infin] [indef pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now what they , what they were supposed to do erm I never did know but there were quite a number of these er men who lived in this train and they had a lieutenant who 's quite a handsome chap by all accounts , he used to come into the office a chap named lieutenant and erm erm this was one of the things that landed on Joyce 's plant er plate and er she used to meet these Education Officers and arrange for courses and in the er in Lieutenant 's case of course there was er , instruction in English which erm erm Stanley who was a Headmaster of er Area School he undertook classes for these Polish chaps but er so often of course these erm , these units were only in the area for a limited space of time so you could n't arrange anything very , very comprehensive |
| 2 | This was not a lucrative job , but she had had so much to do at home that she could n't undertake anything else . |
| 3 | Who could n't love something as cuddly as this . |
| 4 | And she could n't visit anybody otherwise she 'd have to take some of us and y She was n't very welcome anyway with two or three kids behind her . |
| 5 | " But you did n't say you could n't cook anything else BUT sausage and bloody mash ! " |
| 6 | Hold I 've got ta my words on you go go on could n't tell anything else about it , I said yeah it had an orange on and he said , you got the lea oh course |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't mind telling you , though I could n't tell anyone else . |
| 8 | I could n't tell anyone else this . |
| 9 | A problem , because I do n't want a full-blooded plant-growing lighting set-up — in fact I could n't fit one in on the budget and in any case the undergravel and media I 'm using might not be conducive to growth . |
| 10 | She felt limp and exhausted , but there might be someone in the kitchen , and she could n't face anyone else at the moment . |
| 11 | Shelley said quietly , ‘ I mean it — I could n't eat anything tonight . ’ |
| 12 | I always figured people became chefs when they could n't do anything else . |
| 13 | ‘ I could n't do anything else , could I ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Could n't do anything else . ’ |
| 15 | Heart-throb Nigel , who has played consultant Julian Chapman for three years , said last night : ‘ If I carried on playing Julian people would assume I could n't do anything else . |
| 16 | You could n't do anything else . |
| 17 | It seemed as if she could n't do anything right and everyone grumbled at her . |
| 18 | We could n't do anything very energetic , but we enjoyed the change , the magnificent scenery , and I appreciated the rest . |
| 19 | And we did n't bother , we could n't do anything much for these rabbits and try and kill them you know , as much as we could aye . |
| 20 | He was a wanted man in the Lebanon and UNACO could n't do anything publicly without endangering their own clandestine existence . |
| 21 | If he , if he could n't do anything then he would accept it and not do it and then try a bit and if he had to go back to bed . |
| 22 | Then , almost regretfully , ‘ No , no , no , we could n't do anything so terrible . ’ |
| 23 | I could n't pass one up at any jumble sale . |
| 24 | He probably could n't fly one today ! |
| 25 | I had no vices and I could n't take anyone out , so I had nothing to spend my student grant on save for clothes . |
| 26 | I 'm so self reliant that I if I was going o do anything it 'd have to be me that would do it , for the simple reason I could n't trust anybody else , not in that particular thing anyway . |
| 27 | Neither of the Josephs speaks the language , they ca n't discuss things with Durance without your help , and because of the way the paintings were created they could n't trust anyone else . ’ |
| 28 | Because I could n't let everyone down . |
| 29 | After several years as a regular contributor and recipient of the irascible Mahor 's voluminous correspondence , he was due to succeed as editor of Cricket Quarterly in 1970 , and was foiled by a change of mind : ‘ he decided that it was too personal a project , and he could n't let anyone else take it on , ’ he remembers . |
| 30 | The disadvantage of that was you could n't have somebody in with the class for five or six lessons just standing there pretending to film . |