Example sentences of "people could [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take Shallot 's word for it , most people could n't give a rat 's arse about anyone else but Benjamin was different . |
| 2 | Yes well I , I certainly in this parish , I can not see how people could n't manage to get to classes |
| 3 | During the Napoleonic Wars , when people could n't go abroad , they became more preoccupied with architectural styles . |
| 4 | Ordinary New People could n't love anything as he loves me . |
| 5 | ‘ People could n't stop talking about it . ’ |
| 6 | The God-King and his people could n't stop me , or retaliate , or even demand their money back . |
| 7 | it was always sort of for social thing and pe people could n't pay well that was alright , they did n't pay as you say , we 've done our whack really |
| 8 | Rock'n' roll cowboys , with beards , long hair , leather boots and jeans — — the embassy people could n't stand them . |
| 9 | People could n't offer her expressions of sympathy . |
| 10 | twice , I think that 's what people could n't swallow , I mean |
| 11 | but little , people could n't break in for erm |
| 12 | Er or aircraft went over when the siren was going , and the people could n't hear it . |
| 13 | ’ Ca n't understand how those people could n't find the thief themselves . |
| 14 | there was a lot of trouble early on this term when people could n't find stage boards , and like they were all missing and it turns out that they 're like the |
| 15 | Except that privately I was lauded quite a lot and told , ‘ Oh that 's good , keep going into the hospitals and doing that ’ , but people could n't acknowledge it in public because their jobs would be on the line . |
| 16 | People could n't get it . |
| 17 | Then other people could n't get enough again you see , so if they were giving you er points well naturally you had the sweets to give them , you 're not diddling anybody or anything like that . |
| 18 | people could n't get through |
| 19 | So people could n't get in that state could they ? |
| 20 | People could n't believe it . |
| 21 | The foster mother said she thought the teenager was lucky to be alive — and people could n't believe the change in him . |
| 22 | ‘ When we first started doing dressage people could n't believe it , ’ said Pauline . |
| 23 | That was supposed to be a funny song , and I ca n't understand how people could n't see it . |
| 24 | People could n't see the danger we were in — in fact Lee could n't see it either — because it just looked as though his ball was in a sand hole . |
| 25 | people could n't see that it was water there |
| 26 | I 'm not saying it had such a positive effect on his career but it caused a lot of attention which he did n't buckle under , and I do feel a lot of people could n't have lived through that experience , but he did . |
| 27 | The people could n't have been working well enough or my plan was too optimistic . |
| 28 | Welcome back : Five hundred years ago when most people could n't read or write , education came from the church through sermons and images depicted in stained glass windows . |
| 29 | There was this rather famous instance where he had to scrub the floor while Pamela and I were having a long and involved discussion , but I was told that people could n't take their eyes off him . |
| 30 | And some of the people could n't take it could they ? |