Example sentences of "you could n't [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sterling … in those days you could n't float the pound . |
| 2 | And he used to sort of ask you questions you know , sort of sit there and pick on you and if he knew you did n't have the faintest idea what he was going on about he 'd ask you all the more , see , and if you could n't answer it , he used to come up to you , look at you , would n't say nothing , give you this funny look and tell you to get in the next room . |
| 3 | Well a tumbler is where they , the buckets used to go over the top and empty into a chute into the hopper and er went cos it was on a continual chain you see cos you had a bucket two links , a bucket two links , a bucket two links , all the way round and that 's how you used to dredge all the time round and round and round and that 's how it went over to the top tumbler cos you had a bottom tumbler on this layer and a top tumbler , otherwise you could n't dredge otherwise and that top tumbler , I am certain it had five , five sides to it because at one , at one time you 'd tip a bucket on one then you 'd get two lengths so it kept the tumbler more or less equal all the way round the wear and tear of it . |
| 4 | And then the official on the airport saying that you could n't carry out your Beatrix Potter books or your dolls ? |
| 5 | Yes , there was n't a job for you if you could n't carry the barley . |
| 6 | So you could n't carry it outside when the fire alarm went off . |
| 7 | Well you only bought one bag , you could n't carry any more without the car . |
| 8 | The one person you could n't fool was yourself . |
| 9 | You could n't fool him , we used to play hide and seek and you could n't fool him . |
| 10 | You could n't fool him , we used to play hide and seek and you could n't fool him . |
| 11 | After all , you would n't fly an aircraft that you could n't rely on , so why expect any less of us ? |
| 12 | You could n't rely on him . |
| 13 | If you could n't rely on that , how could you even start ? |
| 14 | ‘ You could n't grow up believing animals mattered more than human beings , could you ? |
| 15 | Cabs carrying Sherlock Holmes did better than that , and you could n't grow roses using Armstrong 's exhaust . |
| 16 | You could n't leave in less than two days . |
| 17 | You could n't leave them in those days because there was no social security . |
| 18 | You could n't leave it |
| 19 | small room , you could n't leave anything on the walls so it would all be a come down at night , back up in the morning |
| 20 | You went blind , you got raped , people forgot your birthday , Nixon got elected , your husband fled with a blonde from Beckenham , and then you got old , you could n't walk and you died . |
| 21 | You could n't walk into his dressing-room five minutes after the curtain came down for fear of what you might find him doing . |
| 22 | ‘ You could n't open your mouth in this house before he left but he 'd be down your throat . ’ |
| 23 | You could n't open it less with force , an it 's great force . |
| 24 | At one stage in her career , it had seemed you could n't open up a rock paper or one of the tabloids without seeing her tumbling golden mane and her lazy catlike smile captured by one of the many photographers who seemed to dog her every step . |
| 25 | and er it 's that warm , it 's got to be really cold , I mean you could n't wear it in here on a Sunday night |
| 26 | But you could n't wear it out on this particular blouse |
| 27 | Ee , no , lad : you could n't quarrel with Walter . |
| 28 | You could n't sing anyway , cared less . |
| 29 | She 'd have things in trays on their table — cakes and bread and ginger biscuits and cough candy — but it was really queer because when you went in you could n't smell any of the lovely things laid out on the table . |
| 30 | ‘ In a way it would be interesting to work in a country where you could n't speak the language so you could communicate with your eye and your camera , not your tongue . |