Example sentences of "could not do [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And since Cambridge University of 1924 was hardly likely to breed recruits for the Labour Party — that took another three years — the young men and women of the university could not do much but move , or move further , towards the Conservative side . |
| 2 | The proprietors could not do much more than launch a rather fragile settlement around Charleston , and even this could not be occupied continuously until 1681 . |
| 3 | Theresa had been so good to her always , she could not do that to Theresa . |
| 4 | The restructuring school answered that you could not do that anyway , because the importance of a variable precisely depended on the wider context in which it was operating , but the most important contextual reason was probably manufacturing industry 's need to cut costs in face of newly increasing competition . |
| 5 | ‘ I could not do that to them . |
| 6 | I thought they 'd hung me up by my arms , ’ he began , and then he stopped short , remembering that the Punishment Squad could not do that to a crippled man with one arm . |
| 7 | She wanted to rush into the sitting room and ask why , ask where he 'd been taken , but she knew she could not do that . |
| 8 | But for a time I could not do that to Georg . |
| 9 | The plaintiff vendors sought to set aside the expert 's decision and to have the court decide the matter , but the defendant purchasers said that the plaintiffs could not do that because the contract bound them to accept the expert 's decision . |
| 10 | Not different at all , countered Weinberger : still fanatically anti-American and virulently anti-western ; America could not do any business with them . |
| 11 | Happily , we lived in a much more enlightened time during World War 2 , I never understood the treatment of LMF cases ; it was something I could not understand as outlined in the Air Ministry Order , which was a very harsh document and did not give much leeway in the treatment of a chap if he felt he could not do any more . |
| 12 | In simple terms , if the user typed in a list of books on a typewriter , s/he would be able to see what had been typed but could not do any more with this typed information apart from copying it . |
| 13 | Being in the middle of Europe , Germany could not do this alone and she formed an alliance with Austria , enabling her to hide her hegemonial ambitions under the label ‘ Mitteleuropa ’ ( Central Europe ) . |
| 14 | I could not do this and fish efficiently . |
| 15 | My father and his brother , who had both passed such exams could not do this , as there was no grant for clothing , books , etc . |
| 16 | If Berg was successfully to allege that it was fraudulently misled , it must show that some natural person connected with it had been misled , and Berg could not do this . |
| 17 | They decided , however , that they could not do this during the coming festival of Passover because Jesus was still popular among the people and they did not want to cause unrest . |
| 18 | In particular , as a first step towards clearing the area , he was suggesting that , as Macmillan had advised , the Cossacks should be handed over to the Soviet authorities , although , as he had made clear to Tolbukhin 's HQ , he could not do this without Gen McCreery 's authorization . |
| 19 | They could not do this without troops . |
| 20 | At the moment we are also paying for a specialist company to provide address labels in postcode order ( to quality for Presstream ) because until a few weeks ago the National Office computer could not do this task . |
| 21 | He said , ‘ You could n't do that . |
| 22 | You could n't do that now , could yer ? |
| 23 | ‘ Could n't do that . |
| 24 | As a teenager , Sonique was an athlete for the North London borough of Haringay , after which she tried working nine to five but ‘ I could n't do that and be as free as I wanted ’ . |
| 25 | I could n't do that at the start . |
| 26 | I was n't too keen on this cheek to cheek business , with men I 'd never seen before and did n't know the names of , but I kept on telling myself not to be standoffish and to relax a bit , but as for jiving — no , I could n't do that . |
| 27 | ‘ I could n't do that . ’ |
| 28 | But , with a growing sense of foreboding , she knew she could n't do that . |
| 29 | Oh Alice , you know you could n't do that yourself . ’ |
| 30 | I wanted to touch her and make her better but I realised I could n't do that . |