Example sentences of "i could not [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I do n't think I could n't at this moment in time , give you the components |
| 2 | But I have n't got I could n't at this stage say I could do a tap next year . |
| 3 | I could n't at one time . |
| 4 | I could n't to that . |
| 5 | Oh dear I could n't of that . |
| 6 | so , I could n't of got out the way if I 'd of wanted to , cos I was about that much from the curb , I thought he 's |
| 7 | Oh yes , yeah , I could n't of done . |
| 8 | Yeah , but I could n't of gone anyway , cos I had too many kids |
| 9 | but I , I could n't of ate before we came out |
| 10 | I , I can remember bits of it now , but I could n't on fucking Thursday , I mean , there 's this bloke in er , they 're they 're doing a banking job , while doing a bank job and he still does n't believe he 's the main |
| 11 | That evening , I went to see King Lear at the Old Vic , but I was unable to shake off my self-pity and I could n't for the life of me see what the old git was moaning about . |
| 12 | You know , when I was bringing up my children in the early seventies I read about the the mergence of the new working woman , you know , how to balance a career and a home and children , and I could n't for the life of me think what was new about this working woman ! |
| 13 | I thought I would get a job there but I could n't for a few months and er , my wife and two children joined me there and my brother 's wife joined us there , and two of us bought the house in Luton . |
| 14 | ‘ I could n't for the life of me remember the English name for this vehicle and certainly did n't know what the Russian name was , so I asked him what he would call it . ’ |
| 15 | I could n't for the life of me understand what Emily Lightbody might see in him , except an eternal good time . |
| 16 | ‘ I could n't by then . |
| 17 | Wh what I mean to say is I could n't in advance guess which field it was that you were going to want at any particular moment . |
| 18 | But I could n't in the end ! |
| 19 | It was as if a great void had opened and I could not at first believe that there would be no more visits to the balere with him . |
| 20 | For the next few days I was horribly inactive , gripped by a lethargy that I could not for the life of me understand . |
| 21 | For all that , I could not for some days quite bring myself to raise the matter again with Mr Farraday . |
| 22 | I said that it would be unkind and discourteous to decline a visit , but I could not for the life of me see how I could help him where persons of much greater power were impotent . |
| 23 | Yes , well , I have had a recent case , erm of within the ward that I visited , so I am aware of having the number of problems in the past , I am aware of the problems , but I could not for personal circumstances do the afternoon that day . |
| 24 | Although my wrist is not quite right , I could not of course have let anyone else write this particular letter … . |
| 25 | I could not in the court of law swear that you had been under my observations the whole time we were making the ascent . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I could not in good conscience tell people to buy disposable diapers . ’ |
| 27 | I could not in those days , see God for his creature , of whom I had made an idol . |
| 28 | When you have thought about all these things , when you have fully absorbed into the darkest parts of your mind the sub-human horror of them , you will realize , must realize , with the blinding force of a revelation that I could not by the very nature of my soul be so implicated in such a maze of lust and filth . |