Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She could not avoid her in the nurses ' home dining-room that night , however . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A path is now being beaten to the door of McGrain , who could not convince anybody in the game to give him a job in management for five years after he left Celtic . |
| 9 | A proliferation of pentecostal and evangelical sects , and the success of the Salvation Army ( founded in 1878 ) seemed to show that though the masses could still be moved by religious fervour , they could not find it in the established churches . |
| 10 | But Ford could not get one in the new cap ! ! |
| 11 | I could not look him in the eyes . |
| 12 | The fact that the Superintendent could not look her in the eye was not lost on Kate . |
| 13 | My mum could n't stand it in the end she sa let's get back to bomb there ! |
| 14 | She could n't decipher it in the pitch black . |
| 15 | So , they could n't do anything in the meantime . |
| 16 | Hick , speaking as the England squad completed its pre-Indian tour preparations at Lilleshall yesterday , added : ‘ I wanted to know why my form in the one-day internationals was good , while I could n't do it in the Tests . |
| 17 | I could n't kick him in the teeth after three years of good work and live with myself . |
| 18 | Yet she could n't lose herself in the story ; the movements of Luke 's hand as he made lightning sketches , the lazy , sinuous stretching of his legs as he shifted his position impinged upon her concentration , and she found herself reading the same page over and over . |
| 19 | And when I er went to go on me own er I still wanted to keep in the union and I went down the Locksmiths ' union , which was in the market place , and they said they er we could n't , we could n't have you in the union if you go on your own erm there 's another denomination or something , was something that you 'd have to join or something like that and be on your own . |
| 20 | I could n't point you in the right direction immediately you 'd have to sort of |
| 21 | Well you could n't put them in the car could you ? |
| 22 | I 'd closed my eyes while she was cutting so I could n't see myself in the mirror . |
| 23 | Someone around her — she could n't see who in the dark forest of heads and frame-bags — was talking a different language . |
| 24 | He could n't see anybody in the alley . |
| 25 | At first he could n't see anything in the semi-darkness . |
| 26 | She could n't see anything in the corner . |
| 27 | He could n't see anything in the room and could n't hear any shouts or screams . |
| 28 | And what we used to do to begin with the canal used to dip in the middle , you know there was bike wheels and dead cats and everything in it , and it used to dip and , and there was a sludge and , and the barges used to go up and down with a horse pulling them , and in the middle there was a , so you could n't bottom it in the middle , so when I learnt to swim I used to dive off this ledge and go under the water so far and I , I could reach the bottom when I got to the other side . |
| 29 | And er they could n't bury her in the in the Kirkyard . |
| 30 | I would n't have minded but I could n't get it in the hole after that . |