Example sentences of "could not [vb infin] [pos pn] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owing to Amal 's seclusion as a female , she could not identify her attackers by name , only that they were acquaintances of her brother . |
| 2 | And here she was , with Frank Grimwood of all people , shaking so much she could not fix her spectacles on her nose . |
| 3 | In a test case of 1887 the Home Office ruled that vigilance associations could not recover their costs for prosecutions from government funds.95 Out of the NVA 's annual income of two thousand pounds , half was spent on legal work . |
| 4 | Many royalists had gone into exile in the colonies , especially Virginia , and the new government could not expect its orders to be obeyed on the other side of the Atlantic . |
| 5 | Josiah Wedgwood may have boasted his intent of " making such machines of men as can not err " but he could not nail his potters to the floor and was left to fume when they absented themselves for the local " wakes " . |
| 6 | Unfortunately we could not choose our routes under this scheme . |
| 7 | She told herself that if she did not look up she would not need to see it and after a while this not-looking would become habitual , but in the event she could not prevent her eyes from turning up to the campanile . |
| 8 | McAllister could not prevent her eyes from straying to his newspaper . |
| 9 | So long as he was solvent in law , he could not proportion his payments to creditors according to their respective debts . |
| 10 | His answer was he could not manage his commitments without pairing . |
| 11 | Steve Peers , fishing for Wirral Borough Council , could not lay his hands on any bloodworm , the most popular match bait on the can also put his faith in caster and won the match with 2lb 7oz . |
| 12 | And try as she might she could not detach her eyes from the object on the table that had so totally winded her . |
| 13 | The UN said that despite undertakings from Serb commanders the helicopters would be given safe passage it appeared Mr Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic , the Serb commander , could not control their troops of the ground . |
| 14 | Later authors , Hemming on the bishopric of Worcester , Hugh Candidus on Peterborough , and William of Malmesbury on Glastonbury and Malmesbury , record that those who could not pay their taxes under Cnut were likely to suffer temporary or permanent losses of estates . |
| 15 | ‘ I just ca n't live with you any longer , ’ said Michelle , who could not handle his swings of temperament and , coupled with her own desire to find a career in films , she had resolutely determined not to return to Dennis . |
| 16 | He failed because he could not carry his sergeants with him and because of the jealousy of ecclesiastical Santiago against mercantile Corunna . |
| 17 | And though he could not lift his eyes to the streetlights |
| 18 | ACTOR Woody Allen was heartbroken last night after being told he could not see his children for Christmas . |
| 19 | WOODY ALLEN went shopping yesterday after a judge told him he could not see his children for Christmas but could send them presents . |
| 20 | The visibility was so bad even after dawn that ‘ you could not see your fingers in front of your face ’ . |
| 21 | In a letter to Robson she described their rekindled passion , feeling only slightly aggrieved that she could not put her arms around him ( presumably they go straight through ) . |
| 22 | Sammy was a competent skipper , but he could not keep his hands to himself when Ellen was close . |
| 23 | And you come down through the alley way and you could not keep your feet on the floor ! |
| 24 | The action of the Parliamentary Party was very embarrassing for the Labour Ministers , who of course could not join their colleagues in the opposition lobby ; but it did more than anything else in wartime to identify the Labour Party with the widespread popular desire for social reform in the post-war world . |
| 25 | These ministers had mostly either left the west of Scotland because they could not reconcile their consciences to episcopacy when it was restored there , or had come to Ulster to evangelise and serve the Scots settlers . |
| 26 | Ruth could not take her eyes off him . |
| 27 | He continued to look at her and she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 28 | The maid who opened the door to them could not take her eyes off the great fat woman in the biscuit straw hat with big cloth roses on its brim , and the cape that just covered her shoulders and showed an expanse of blue cotton bosom , the like she had never seen before . |
| 29 | But she could not take her eyes off him . |
| 30 | She could not take her eyes off Heathcliff . |