Example sentences of "could n't [be] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | She decided she could n't be so wrong twice in as many days . |
| 2 | But when I arrived at The St Chad 's Deanery Day for Stockport and discovered there was a group of 20 people aged from ten up to 19 , I thought that things could n't be so bad after all . |
| 3 | But deep down you also knew that it could n't be so simple . |
| 4 | I tried to persuade him that things could n't be so bad as the French paper made out or he would have been wired for . |
| 5 | Lili and I were silent and I wondered for a moment how I would be feeling if I was going to marry the man I loved — had loved , I amended in my mind , for surely even I could n't be so idiotic as to love still where I had met with such treachery . |
| 6 | So that they began to hint that I could n't be so very friendly if I was afraid to take them round to meet him . |
| 7 | I ought to have known I could n't be so lucky . |
| 8 | His own steps seemed enormous , he floated up the steps , swimming could n't be so difficult after all , particularly as he 'd become weightless . |
| 9 | It could n't be so important for her . |
| 10 | He could expect fawning adoration wherever he went — surely he could n't be so in need of blanket adulation that one heretic in the court could upset him ? |
| 11 | Coincidence could n't be so cruel , so twisted , could it ? |
| 12 | Surely he could n't be so insensitive ? |