Example sentences of "could not [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | However , both the Commission and national authorities are bound not to disclose any business secrets and therefore the recipient of any such document could not pass it on to any other national authority or use it otherwise than for the investigation in hand . |
| 2 | I can conduct in front of the mirror , but if I was conducting an orchestra and something went wrong I could not put it back on the rails again . ’ |
| 3 | Now Botswana could not cut itself off from South Africa during the long years of apartheid but Botswana did make clear that it opposed apartheid and voiced this very strongly and much to the annoyance often of the South African government . |
| 4 | Lesley-Jane could not keep her back to the door indefinitely and turned . |
| 5 | Johnny was immediately made captain , a position he held for nearly five years , and scored on his debut , but even Johnny 's seven goals from the 12 remaining games could not keep us out of the new basement division . |
| 6 | She could not take him back to America with her , he could not take her home . |
| 7 | The Cleveland firm which installed the panelling for a drugs trial could not take it down until today at the earliest . |
| 8 | Building a new lymphad ; hunting ; fighting — a wee private raid or two for cattle from the Camerons , nothing serious ; other girls ; even whisky by the barrel could not blot her out of his mind . |
| 9 | Even Shelford could not work them out of that one . |
| 10 | Her royal plane , she explained , could not get her back to Sandringham that early December night because of bad weather . |
| 11 | She tried , bitterly , to resist this fatal colouring ; she tried to reduce the trip to words upon a notice board ; but the mind had gone its own way , and she could not force it back into its grey and natal landscape . |
| 12 | Regarding the Marshall , I criticised the fact that you could n't set it up in a rack with , say , a radio system and leave it rigged , because you 'd have to unplug it every time you used it . |
| 13 | ‘ We could n't send him back to England . |
| 14 | And I said I could n't make it out at first . |
| 15 | They could n't tell you off for not turning off the lights but you were n't meant to be out of your dorm or even out of bed . |
| 16 | A problem , because I do n't want a full-blooded plant-growing lighting set-up — in fact I could n't fit one in on the budget and in any case the undergravel and media I 'm using might not be conducive to growth . |
| 17 | But you could n't wear it out on this particular blouse |
| 18 | I could n't pass one up at any jumble sale . |
| 19 | ‘ He could n't sort himself out of a paper bag ! ’ |
| 20 | I did take it up with the Attorney-General but he felt he could n't refer it on to the next court . |
| 21 | Matters arising through the procedure from any individual or any group of individuals on the shop floor , was dealt with primarily and respectfully so in regard to the individual making an approach to the foreman , if no settlement was reached then , it was referred to the shop steward in that department , if he could n't settle it along with the member with the foreman , then he could report it to the er shop stewards committee through the auspices of the secretary or the convenor . |
| 22 | They could n't take it back to the florist . |
| 23 | So since his old fella died and he could n't take it out on him , he 's taken it out on his young missis and the young ‘ uns . ’ |
| 24 | He could n't let them down like that , his brave little company who had battled their way , despite enormous odds , into a precarious success . |
| 25 | Plucky ‘ Wendy 's a plucky kid , and we could n't let her down by giving the wrong vibes . |
| 26 | The disadvantage of that was you could n't have somebody in with the class for five or six lessons just standing there pretending to film . |
| 27 | I mean you ca n't , it 's not , I mean you could n't have it in like |
| 28 | Obviously I could n't follow him up to his front door , but I saw him turn into the grounds . ’ |
| 29 | Oh I could n't use it up with the kids you know . |
| 30 | Yeah well you could n't put them back in the wild now . |