Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [vb infin] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could not go back , because we had disposed of the business , along with her tools and much of her furniture , but not her fender , which would arrive at Hale-wood in due course . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ We could not move back home and we had reached the end of Palestine . ’ |
| 6 | They swore that they had turned her down at first , but that she had behaved in such a bold manner — sitting on their laps , kissing them and fingering her body — that they could not hold back any longer . |
| 7 | When pope , barons and many bishops , as well as the queen and apparently the royal heir , were largely agreed , Reynolds could not hold back the tide of change . |
| 8 | As his lips pressed against hers , warm and exciting , she could not hold back the longing inside her . |
| 9 | [ Guevara then went on to mention ] some things he had in mind : — ( 1 ) That they could not give back the expropriated properties … but they could pay for them in trade . |
| 10 | He could not bring back any coherent dream from out of the hours which followed . |
| 11 | If his education were below that of his audience he could not fall back on the validity of the Sacraments he administered for support . |
| 12 | Jimmy could not fight back . |
| 13 | ‘ All the people who worked with Laura in those years experienced the rough edge of her humour at some time or other , usually when you were so run down and exhausted , after four or five days travelling with no proper sleep , that you could not fight back . ’ |
| 14 | He completed a three-match ban last weekend but could not win back his place for the Coca-Cola Cup against Crewe . |
| 15 | He could not turn back and his instruments were not functioning so he flew down a succession of gorges well below the surrounding peaks . |
| 16 | But inadequate and ill-prepared though she felt , she knew she could not turn back now . |
| 17 | I passed through and I could not get back … ’ |
| 18 | That is also the basis of the argument that a UK resident taxpayer could not claim back the 35 per cent tax under s687 where the original income derived from a non-UK source and rely on the Inland Revenue to pursue the trustees . |
| 19 | Just as Paul Gascoigne was overcome with emotion at England 's World Cup exit in Italia '90 , Cantona could n't hold back the tears when he was joined on the chat show sofa … by his grandmother . |
| 20 | Hysteria had nothing to do with reality , it was something you could n't help , could n't hold back any more than you could stop flood water finding out the weak places in a dam . |
| 21 | She could n't hold back ; like him , it was all impossible . |
| 22 | Why talk to something that could n't talk back ? |
| 23 | just gon na have to you know be stopped there anyway this young lad after the first fast bend he went to overtake and I could see a car coming the other way and he was like er running along side this pick-up but it was like he could n't drop back and he could n't make it either |
| 24 | But it would need a sixty percent vote on the council , and once they 'd do made the switch , they could n't switch back to a system by thirds for ten years . |
| 25 | But she could n't draw back now ; she did n't even want to . |
| 26 | But she could n't go back now ; she had to go on . |
| 27 | I could n't go back to work although I had tried several times and socializing was no fun at all . |
| 28 | But she was more tired than she knew , and soon she began to wish that she had a suitcase to sit on ; but hers was on the rack in that tightly packed carriage , and she could n't go back for it . |
| 29 | One thing we were sure of : we could n't go back . |
| 30 | And that would be one more bar we could n't go back to . |