Example sentences of "nor could i [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor could I contemplate the journey which fills me with fear near to fainting . |
| 2 | Nor could I shake off a feeling that Aunt Louise was sitting beside me , enjoying it too . |
| 3 | Nor could I face , any longer , the shame of admitting I wanted a life of my own , in case this should lay me open to a charge of pretentiousness or self-importance . |
| 4 | On the other hand , the following example implies that the support — here the speaker — has actually realized the action denoted by the infinitive : ( 21 ) Nor could I foresee how much pleasure I was to derive " putting some style " into those fatuous concoctions titled PROGRESS REPORT ON BEET … |
| 5 | Nor could I believe that it was the intention to bring in at a single stroke a charge to tax that would be calculated to interrupt the education and expectations of so many parents and children , for it is surely common knowledge that the provision of free or subsidised education for the children of those teaching in independent schools was part of their usual terms of employment and that the salaries paid would be wholly insufficient to meet a charge to tax based on the full fees of the school . |
| 6 | I could n't look at them ; nor could I look back into the room . |
| 7 | Nor could I let him bully me . |
| 8 | Though I had small scale maps at three inches to a mile for some areas they are not produced for all the Sahara , nor could I have afforded the hundred pounds they would have cost if they had been . |