Example sentences of "could not do [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I changed things around because I was convinced the same 11 players could not do themselves justice over the next three weeks . ’ |
| 2 | How many times have you told yourself you could not do something but when you ultimately faced up and had a go , to your amazement you succeeded . |
| 3 | I was fascinated to watch this , particularly as at that time this is something I could not do myself . |
| 4 | i.7.12 ) that ‘ it would be monstrous if the people could not do what it wanted ’ . |
| 5 | She had experienced mounting terror at the thought of a new role in which she would certainly prove a failure — a woman who could not do her work , could not save her father , could not love her mother , could not satisfy her man , was most unlikely to make any sort of mother . |
| 6 | Some 14 per cent of the 1980 GHS sample aged over 65 could not do their shopping themselves and 28 per cent could not cut their own toe-nails ( OPCS 1982 ) . |
| 7 | The Martin and Roberts ( 1984 ) survey found all manner of weird and wonderful reasons given by husbands as to why they thought women could not do their jobs . |
| 8 | If the house was above the road , it came from it , and cross 'd the way to run to another ; if the house was below us , it cross 'd us from some other distant house above it , and at every considerable house was a manufactory or work-house , and as they could not do their business without water , the little streams were so parted and guided by gutters and pipes , and by turning and dividing the streams , that none of those houses were without a river , if I may call it so , running into and through their work-houses . |
| 9 | When George saw that Curley was attacking Lennie , George allowed Lennie to fight back because he knew that he could not do everything for Lennie . |
| 10 | Voltaire could not do it ; |
| 11 | the french could not do it . |
| 12 | He could not do it if he were not the landlord , although in general you can not , in the late twentieth century , expect high-minded landlords to do your planning for you . |
| 13 | Before I knew where I was , I had been wagered a great deal of money that I could not do it , and shortly before midnight I was leaving the hallowed portals of Ronnie Scott 's Club . |
| 14 | She knew that she could not do it alone . |
| 15 | Mr Saegusa 's first instinct was to refuse ; he thought he could not do it justice . |
| 16 | Locke replied that he could not do it ; it would take someone of the intellectual stature of Newton . |
| 17 | St Michael could not do it on his own . |
| 18 | They could not do it . |
| 19 | I was about to add his son had been an excellent patient , and found I could not do it . |
| 20 | Even though I 've got the option of not doing it , I do n't really feel I could not do it , because I feel I ought to do it . |
| 21 | As the girls changed for the dance , giggling , excited , she had moments when she thought that she could not do it , that she would prefer to go in her skirt and jersey . |
| 22 | ‘ Our only escape would be to climb down the face of the rock ; but … ’ her eyes rested on Adam ’ … your brother could not do it , mortal . |
| 23 | She tried very hard to climb up the table leg , but she could not do it . |
| 24 | But when he held out the bread to Charlotte , he could not do it , because he was shaking and crying so much . |
| 25 | I tried many times , but I could not do it . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't — yes , I could do that , ’ said Caspar , who could not do it at all , but could see that there was no other answer to be given . |
| 27 | When the young laird of Dunvegan , Norman Macleod , came down late for breakfast , Johnson ticked him off , saying laziness was worse than toothache : ‘ I have been trying to cure my laziness all my life , and could not do it . ’ |
| 28 | She could not do it . |
| 29 | She tried to skim again , but her tears fell so that she could not do it . |
| 30 | If it meant interrogating Wheeler , he knew he could not do it . |