Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She walked alone in the silence , hearing her own muted footfalls like echoes of past or future , she could not distinguish one from the other . |
| 2 | She endured his lovemaking , sometimes she even enjoyed it , but for the greater part she could not love him in the way he truly deserved . |
| 3 | But Alexander could not hold it against the Edoni , local tribesmen , which may have given the Athenians the idea that they could move in and plant a colony ( 465 ) . |
| 4 | England had a target of 240 in 140 minutes , but could not meet it in the end , and as a result the Test was drawn . |
| 5 | My source tells me : ‘ The firemen were very helpful and attempted to remove the offending smoke sensor but could not isolate it from the system so the demonstration continued with shorter cooking times and lower temperatures to reduce the flames . |
| 6 | She could not avoid her in the nurses ' home dining-room that night , however . |
| 7 | However , she could not avoid it at The Tamarisks , for although Fru Møller offered a generous choice of hors d'œuvres and puddings she did not provide a choice of main course and Elisabeth would not have dreamt of placing herself at a disadvantage by drawing attention to her disability and pleading for something easier than steak to swallow . |
| 8 | She could not picture him behind the grim walls of Swansea Prison , instead she remembered him riding with her in the park , smiling down at her with his dark eyes , making her feel so small and helpless . |
| 9 | Most of the reinforcements could not inform me of the health of Colonel Vaughan , but they all had vivid recollections of the most unusual weather conditions in the Highlands , and at the moment regarded their situation here in Normandy as an improvement on Achnacarry . |
| 10 | He became concerned when he could not locate him on the premises , because Mr Jowett was due to take over the lambing . |
| 11 | The location of the offence can be proved by the officer in the case to show that the offender could not avail himself of the dwelling defence under section 5(2) and ( 3 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ We were told that we could not add anything to the pedestrian provision after the initial period . |
| 13 | He could not see me behind the curtains , and clearly did not expect an answer . |
| 14 | For a second she saw a man on top of the rock , then she could not see him behind the waves . |
| 15 | The hair on his face was untrimmed , and his nose had spread with drinking , but the weather-hard skin was not the skin of a drunkard , and if the hair on his temples was thinning , you could not see it for the leather fillet he wore . |
| 16 | Though the hardpressed French could not see it at the time , something had in fact gone dramatically wrong with the meticulous German plans ; that is , with the Crown Prince 's plans . |
| 17 | That is true , but it does not issue in the conclusion that we do not ordinarily have and use the given conception of a causal circumstance , or that we could not use it in the confirmation of causal hypotheses . |
| 18 | He could not put them to the Committee and I look forward to seeing whether they can be put forward tonight . |
| 19 | We would have to hope for a Tory victory , but , because of the uncertainty about the outcome of the election , he could not put her on the waiting list . |
| 20 | Even the after effects could not keep him from the final . |
| 21 | He could not hear me above the din of the crowd . |
| 22 | Because they had no way of driving out of office the men who ran the executive in their colonies , the colonial assemblies could not assert themselves in the same way as the Westminster Parliament , and had to fall back on using the seventeenth-century approach of saying that there should be redress of grievance before taxes were voted to run the government . |
| 23 | Luke would have said that politically he stood way to the left of his mother and way , way to the left of his father , but somehow he could not reconcile himself to the thought of his mother stocking shelves in Pricewell 's . |
| 24 | He could not reconcile it with the images he had preserved . |
| 25 | But any rational analysis of the outcome of the Democratic primaries makes it clear that Jackson 's racial identity did not and could not defeat him in the voting booth . |
| 26 | I wanted a space blanket even more , but I could not take anything from the Land Rover for myself until the next settlement . |
| 27 | Some were canonised and others — like Eckhart and Tauler — were hounded by the Church , but all were seen to be of enormous importance by their contemporaries , even by people who could not follow them into the inner world . |
| 28 | But German Romanticism could not sustain itself against the blandishments of urban existence , and as the nineteenth century progressed the movement lapsed into sentiment and kitsch — the absolute artistic opportunism that insisted on ‘ moving ’ people emotionally . |
| 29 | A twenty-foot wing-span model powered by a steam engine of Henson origin , but much improved by Stringfellow , was tested in 1845 but could not sustain itself in the air . |
| 30 | In their conclusions the researchers did warn , however , that the samples they studied were small and that they could not say anything about the long-term effects of increased exposure to ultraviolet radiation . |