Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James Tomlinson could not and still does not believe that he imagined seeing the mysterious passenger . |
| 2 | She would have liked to sleep again but found she could not and so she had to get up . |
| 3 | To acknowledge that she could not and never would ask Maggie for the mothering that she would give to her own mother . |
| 4 | Sharing between us our repertoire , we turned up two comedy songs , But I could n't and Just in the old sweet way . |
| 5 | But she knew it could n't and so she relaxed , exulting in the magic freedom of now . |
| 6 | That 's and he could n't and then mount this sort of operation . |