Example sentences of "could not [verb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The position before this case was that if a power was properly classifiable as a prerogative power , the courts could decide what the extent of the power was and whether a proper occasion for its exercise had arisen , but they could not decide whether it had been exercised reasonably or fairly . |
| 2 | Nozick anyway could not hold that it does , because his position relies on the independent proof it provides that you do n't know you are not a brain in a vat . |
| 3 | She could not tell whether it had been a matter of minutes or several hours . |
| 4 | As Robert Lovett , former Under Secretary of State , told the drafting committee , there was practically nothing that the US could not do if it wanted to . |
| 5 | It was all necessary , no doubt , but with all the optimism of his youth he could n't see that it looked promising . |
| 6 | He tried to strip off the tape , but it was too tough and his fingers were numb and he could n't find where it began . |
| 7 | I could n't eat , because of the cuts , could n't drink — they were feeding us milk through straws — and my face was beginning to get septicaemia as we lay in this hut with just this little oil- lamp , and the mosquitoes at night would come and sit on the wounds , and I could n't stop thinking about what was going to happen next in my life , and we had no newspapers and I did n't know what was happening and I could n't cry because it pulled the stitches . |
| 8 | She could n't believe that it had all stopped , the misery , the anguish , the self-recrimination . |
| 9 | Mrs Patient of Bracknell , Berks , said : ‘ I could n't believe that it took four of them to stand there and say they could n't do the work until after the New Year . |