Example sentences of "[pron] could not " in BNC.

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1 I could not formulate it to myself then but I felt the uniqueness .
2 Days eating scraps because I could not bear to enter a shop , talk to another human being , have people see me .
3 I could not in the court of law swear that you had been under my observations the whole time we were making the ascent . ’
4 I could not believe that I 'd been so stupid , or that such a simple mistake was about to have such dire consequences .
5 For the next few days I was horribly inactive , gripped by a lethargy that I could not for the life of me understand .
6 The future depended on decisions I could not possibly predict , but at least I had now been offered a shadow of a lifeline , and that , for the moment , would have to do .
7 I could not see the heap ; it was hidden by brambles nowadays .
8 If I had no grasp on the shape of the maze , that is , at least its basic spatial properties , I could not understand any ascription of behaviour to the rat .
9 But when I looked over those I had kept , I decided I could not do so .
10 Of course , having accepted your paper on the Noh , I could not refrain from publishing it .
11 I was 20 yards ahead and I could not afford to let Lenihan catch up . ’
12 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 .
13 ‘ I said that I could not commit myself as my academic time was not yet finished , but I would like to be at their disposal later . ’
14 ‘ You will add great distinction to the office in ways to which I could not aspire ; but I fear you will find a great deal of the work here work which does not really interest you . ’
15 I could not imagine what they were , apart from an unattainable marvel , part of a world gone for ever .
16 I could not understand his absence ; but suddenly , as I sat in the speeding train , a long way already from El Katara , I caught sight of his white burnous on the banks of the oued .
17 As Prime Minister I could not waste time having any internal arguments ’ or ‘ Yes , I do drive through things which I believe in passionately — what else do you expect of a Prime Minister ?
18 I could not help recalling , ’ Sir Maurice Hankey , the Cabinet Secretary , wrote in his diary in September , ‘ that on the last day of Parliament Mr. Baldwin had walked across the yard outside [ the House of Commons ] and had said ‘ I will do everything I can to help the Government in making economies , but I will not enter a Coalition Government . '
19 ‘ I wanted to kill you , but I could not . ’
20 ‘ Well , ’ said Margaret laughing , ‘ I wanted to kill you too , but I could not either . ’
21 I would find it very hard to follow gut feel if I could not put forward arguments on two sides of a sheet of paper as to why it was the right decision .
22 I do remember fighting to stay balanced on the rock and not managing it , I do remember that when the world came back into focus I could not see out of my left eye .
23 Within seconds the blood from the gash that once been the left side of my head had poured all over the side of my face and filled up my left eye ; so that was why I could not see .
24 I could not see his feet as snow ploughed up from his brake when he had last stepped on it reached to about mid-calf .
25 I could not sleep and the pains started . ’
26 My family moved to Britain , and because of the distance and the expense I could not visit them .
27 I became very weak , I could not sleep or feel any hunger or desire to speak to anyone .
28 When he read stories about Balder , Adonis and Bacchus , he was prepared to ‘ feel the myth as profound and suggestive of meanings beyond my grasp even tho ’ I could not say in cold prose ‘ what it meant ’ .
29 I could not speak although I was conscious .
30 At this moment two people grabbed me to try to make me get up but I could not get up , so they kicked me and stamped all over me from head to toe .
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