Example sentences of "could n't [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lydia thought moodily that she could n't hope to be as boring as Dr Wyn if she tried all night . |
| 2 | I thought we 'd been getting on pretty well but as Father 's Day approached , Joe made it clear that I could n't hope to be any more than just second best |
| 3 | The furthest section of the aquarium is a mass of caves and rockwork and there 's so much activity that you could n't fail to be entranced , whether you 're a cichlid fan or not . |
| 4 | ‘ I could n't fail to be , could I ? ’ |
| 5 | He knew he could get away safely because he had a reading back in London that evening , and it could n't lead to further meetings because he was going away soon . |
| 6 | ‘ And frankly , I could n't disappear to the West Indies and leave you all in this mess with the business . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I could n't stand to be there . |
| 8 | If it was some horrible misunderstanding , he could n't talk to the girl to try to clear it up ; instead , he had to be kept in prison to prevent any possibility of contact . |
| 9 | Could n't talk to ladies , absolutely speechless . |
| 10 | I could n't talk to Mama in the same way as I 'm doing now . |
| 11 | He says he 's had not nearly enough sex education at school , he could n't talk to his parents about it and boys just do n't speak to their mates when it comes to something so intimate and private . |
| 12 | And I could n't talk to mum and dad . |
| 13 | There were days when you just could n't talk to him , when he stared at you as if what you said made no sense , and then gave you answers you could n't understand . |
| 14 | Obviously he could n't talk to the police , and it would suit his book better if Vecchi was caught by someone outside his own organisation . |
| 15 | At the same time , you wanted to grab Connie Fraser , and send her out in the country with a medical man to say she could n't talk to the law . |
| 16 | And the worst part was that she could n't talk to Elinor about it . |
| 17 | They could n't talk to me . |
| 18 | Like at home I could n't talk to my mum about it , and I could n't talk to my boyfriend about it . |
| 19 | Like at home I could n't talk to my mum about it , and I could n't talk to my boyfriend about it . |
| 20 | And when Jessamy had tried to speak to Julius at his office , Eleanor had always been on the other end of the phone , trotting out some barely plausible excuse why Julius could n't talk to her . |
| 21 | I could talk to you the way I could n't talk to anyone else . |
| 22 | You could n't talk to Woolley , you could n't live with him . |
| 23 | ‘ Funny that , dear , I could n't talk to Lizzie , not to my own daughter . |
| 24 | But to people like me , well we just could n't talk to him any more . ’ |
| 25 | That was sometimes too much even for the equally outrageous Orton , who partly envied the relationship Ken had with his mother — he knew he could n't talk to his own parent that way — and was partly disgusted by it , to the point of wanting to change the subject from sexual organs and sexual intercourse to something more inane . |
| 26 | It was something else that was bothering him , something illogical that he could n't explain to the Captain until he had explained it to himself . |
| 27 | Er the chair being the offender , given the chair that collapsed underneath her er , she could n't , or she could n't explain to me how the chair managed to collapse underneath her ! |
| 28 | She could n't explain to herself why it should be , but it was something which she had tried to put out of her mind , for the present anyway . |
| 29 | offered to call round if I could n't go to the meeting . |
| 30 | You could n't go to his people . |