Example sentences of "could n't [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , I knew I could n't squat for fifteen minutes on a bed or a floor . |
| 2 | She could n't rail into thin air . |
| 3 | He went back on his heels , but could n't clear the punch entirely . |
| 4 | and could n't clear it at the end of the quarter ? |
| 5 | The clay would n't lea you could n't clear the buckets , so we used to what we had a grafting tool , that was like a spade but that was , er , that was er , narrow at one end , the spade at the bottom end was a bit narrow so you could cut th cut the clay out of , out the buckets and that was a hard job too . |
| 6 | Shannon tried to resist his plundering lips , tried to pull her face away , but she could n't think straight , could n't clear the confusion fogging her mind . |
| 7 | Her with the withered paralyzed arm that she bashed you with because she could n't clear it and you blooming well could . |
| 8 | Yes Celtic certainly look like they 're back from the brink coming forward at every opportunity and it paid off with John , he ball , Steven could n't clear and Brian well and Celtic in control Aberdeen nil Celtic one . |
| 9 | By the age of 23 , I 'd starred in a one-man show on Broadway and when the play closed I confronted the truth that if I was n't the star of a play I could n't feed myself . |
| 10 | After all , we could n't feed them as we do n't have enough to eat ourselves . ’ |
| 11 | She was surprised when she was told she could n't feed the pig swill . |
| 12 | She was surprised when she was told she could n't feed the pig swill . |
| 13 | He could n't tolerate twenty-four hours in which the greater part was n't spent entirely alone . |
| 14 | Apparently Harry could n't tolerate being with other people . |
| 15 | ‘ And you feel you could n't tolerate that ? ’ the counsellor asked Peter . |
| 16 | That she would you know throw him out so that she could just could n't tolerate him any more . |
| 17 | Of course the answer is changing the myth would have made Moses Hebrew and not Egyptian , because if Moses had been the daughter of Pharaoh he would had to been Egyptian and that the Hebrews could n't tolerate because at a later stage their religion became strongly ethnic and racially divided , you really got to be born Jewish to be Jewish , so they could n't tolerate their , their founding fathers of not being anything but Jewish , so they altered it , they changed the records and they falsified the myth , but they left this glaring inconsistency in it , so the myth is no longer it 's er rewritten and this is one of the little bits of evidence and now of course erm if you do n't take psychoanalyst insights into the family romance seriously , that may not cut much ice for you , but if you erm appreciate the force of these unconscious stereotypes in creating this like this , it 's cert it 's a quite potent piece of evidence because you think well why should the , the Bible change the myth , why ca n't it just put up with the normal myth . |
| 18 | Of course the answer is changing the myth would have made Moses Hebrew and not Egyptian , because if Moses had been the daughter of Pharaoh he would had to been Egyptian and that the Hebrews could n't tolerate because at a later stage their religion became strongly ethnic and racially divided , you really got to be born Jewish to be Jewish , so they could n't tolerate their , their founding fathers of not being anything but Jewish , so they altered it , they changed the records and they falsified the myth , but they left this glaring inconsistency in it , so the myth is no longer it 's er rewritten and this is one of the little bits of evidence and now of course erm if you do n't take psychoanalyst insights into the family romance seriously , that may not cut much ice for you , but if you erm appreciate the force of these unconscious stereotypes in creating this like this , it 's cert it 's a quite potent piece of evidence because you think well why should the , the Bible change the myth , why ca n't it just put up with the normal myth . |
| 19 | But he could n't tolerate incompetence . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ He could n't tolerate them , ’ she said . |
| 21 | Poor love , he was so fair-skinned he could n't tolerate much sun and Majorca was sunnier and hotter than ever this season , according to him . |
| 22 | Vicom says it incurred massive debt during the development its own proprietary visualisation line whilst at the same time taking over Sun 's products , and could n't attract the new development capital it required . |
| 23 | the university has a new duty , we are told : there is a besieging host , everincreasing , of Indians , Africans , Commonwealth people in general , Levantines , who aspire to become university teachers of English literature , and must therefore have a PhD — preferably a Cambridge one ( though it is admitted that a large proportion of them could n't hope to take the English Tripos with much credit — even if they could pass ) . |
| 24 | You could n't hope to convert them . ’ |
| 25 | Britain and France had drifted into this war and could n't hope to win against such a combination . |
| 26 | Although The Smiths clearly regarded themselves as being the better unit , they could n't hope to compete with U2 on a commercial basis and to the ambitious egos of Morrissey , Marr , Joyce and Rourke , this seemed unacceptable . |
| 27 | The flames did help to disperse the fog and also to make the runway more visible , but of course one air field could n't hope to cope with all the 8 Group heavies returning at the same time , and things were pretty chaotic for a few hours . |
| 28 | ‘ We could n't hope for more . |
| 29 | Dalgliesh felt impatient for the arrival of the forensic biologist , although he knew he could n't hope for the answer , not yet . |
| 30 | How , after such an accident , its limbs managed any speed at all was a miracle , but it was off at a pace that Marlin could n't hope to match . |