Example sentences of "[Wh pn] could [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other travellers thought he was half mad or a man who could not forget some terrible crime . |
| 2 | Those who could not meet such fines could be sent to jail . |
| 3 | Quite how a man who could not bear to hurt a living thing after seeing the damage his childhood air-rifle did to a starling could serve as defence secretary is something of an enigma . |
| 4 | People who could not bear it walked out . |
| 5 | Here I was , for some time , the favourite of Mrs. Simper , my lady 's woman , who could not bear the vulgar girls , and was happy in the attendance of a young woman of some education . |
| 6 | It was somewhat similar with me ; the war was on , albeit far away , and I was missing it ; patriotism and duty did enter into the picture but I was chafing at the bit like Old Dobbin who could not bear to stay away from a fire ! |
| 7 | He records Smart 's statement that he ‘ must have finished an unfortunate life in jail had it not been for the good nature of a Friend , who could not bear to see his tears ’ . |
| 8 | Damn him for dissembling ; for pretending to Daniel that he was n't wounded to the core at being passed over , pretending that it was only Anna who was suffering , as if it were she who could not bear the lack of advancement , of increased prosperity . |
| 9 | We may note Le Chevalier qui fist parler les cons ( seven manuscript copies ) , Cele qui se fist foutre sur la fosse de son mari , " The woman who got fucked on the tomb of her husband " ( six copies ) , Cele qui fu foutue et desfoutue ( six copies ) , La Damoiselle qui ne pooit oïr parler de foutre , " The maid who could not bear hearing talk of fucking " ( five copies ) , La Coille noire , " The black balls " ( six copies ) or La Dame escoillee , " The woman who had her balls cut off " ( six copies ) . |
| 10 | Communal farming , however , was still important to those who could not acquire and enclose private farms . |
| 11 | To my surprise this man who could not swim a stroke had covered a quarter of a mile towards Malta , judging by the fluorescine trail . ’ |
| 12 | You suggest , in effect , that for some reason it is justifiable for boat owners who , after all , must have some financial resources to have acquired a permanent mooring in the first place , to be supported by ordinary countrywide residents , many of whom genuinely have little or no financial resources and who could not care less about a handful of sailors . |
| 13 | In a curious way , and despite its commitment to vigorous prosecution of the war , Common Wealth provided a refuge for pacifist-minded individuals who could not bring themselves to oppose the anti-fascist war . |
| 14 | It took well over an hour for the first 48 delegates — who included no Soviet bloc nation , nor India , nor Burma , nor either of the Chinas , nor a scattering of other countries who could not bring themselves to accept Japan 's word — to file up to the podium to sign . |
| 15 | The 14 respondents ( 46% ) who could not decide included the 10 informants who said they sometimes read SF . |
| 16 | He was popularly supposed to be a man who not only told the truth , but who could not tell a lie , and the senator 's aides and publicists were not unhappy to promulgate that echo of a previous President 's virtues . |
| 17 | Sachin Tendulkar moved quickly on to 19 at which stage the Indian was twice put down , first by Mark Nicholas at short cover and then by David Gower who could not hold on to a hot left-handed chance at second slip , the unlucky bowler on both occasions being Connor . |
| 18 | Dexter watched the man 's annoyance drain away : he was the sort who could not stay angry for long . |
| 19 | Sam Corry and his medics carried the wounded who could not walk to the top of the rock above the landing beach , to which they were then lowered , down the rock face , on stretchers . |
| 20 | It might look all wrong to the author of ‘ L'Etat et puissance ’ ; to him , kings who could not tax by definition lacked power as well as wealth . |
| 21 | Less offensive were those who could not face dismissal : ‘ He who wo n't swear the oath will lose his job . ’ |
| 22 | Defending , Mr Noel Philo , said Brooks loved his son and did not mean to harm him , but he was an inadequate father who could not cope . |
| 23 | But , of course , Dorothy knows in those particular circumstances it was not a risk — the mental parameters fixed by the first half of the lesson controlled the freedom of the second half — and any individual child who could not cope could turn it into a ‘ reporting to the boss at the manhole ’ game . |
| 24 | In my own backyard , friends who could not cope with their own homophobia deserted me … |
| 25 | The need for these was identified when the regular programme of summer schools for ABE students began to attract students with severe learning difficulties who could not cope with the curriculum offered but seemed to gain great benefit from the opportunity for residential education . |
| 26 | The revolutionaries tended to be drawn from those who could not cope with normal life , with a regular profession , with human relationships . |
| 27 | Those small owner publishers who could not cope with the new financial pressures were forced to expand , to merge with other larger companies , or go bust . |
| 28 | However , a court might be prepared to accept ( for instance ) that it would be unreasonable for a manufacturer to exclude liability to a retailer who could not exclude liability vis-ρa-vis its customers . |
| 29 | Those who could not feed themselves had only the option of closing their mouths against the intruding spoon . |
| 30 | This last project is an embarrassingly inappropriate tribute to a man who could not identify any plants , trees or birds that he saw on his journeys except by such vapid statements as ‘ big and little birds of all sorts ’ , ‘ trees very green ’ , and ‘ many trees very different from ours . ’ |