Example sentences of "[pron] could not [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not speak nor breathe , and fell on to the sofa . |
| 2 | If you were to come yourself Lily or the child 's Father I could not stand in your way whatever my feelings which are strong , but to hand over my Precious little one to a Young and Foreign girl who spoke his only language poorly that I could not do and send him with her on a dangerous voyage most frightening to him . |
| 3 | After years of thinking that I could not draw or paint , I decided to have a go . |
| 4 | I could not sleep but lay on my back staring at the blackness , listening to the wind and one of the lads snoring . |
| 5 | I could not sleep and the pains started . ’ |
| 6 | I became very weak , I could not sleep or feel any hunger or desire to speak to anyone . |
| 7 | I could not sleep or eat . |
| 8 | A third Free Presbyterian minister said : ‘ Perhaps the main reason [ for leaving the Orange Order ] was that in 1969 I was saved by the grace of God and therefore felt that I could not sit and be associated with members of the Orange and Black while they consumed alcohol in their meetings on the 12th and 13th mornings each July . ’ |
| 9 | just now , for instance , I could not sit & do nothing , since that only irritates my brain ; & it was then only my pipe that enabled me comfortably to read Rousseau 's ‘ Julie ; or the New Heloise ’ . |
| 10 | When I came round again , I could not see and Jorge told me my father was dead . ’ |
| 11 | Obviously I could not relax and take stock in the turret after what had happened , so I worked my way back to the Bible Room , closed the door quietly and lay down in the bunk . |
| 12 | I did not stand staring but I could not help but see . |
| 13 | Such a fragile sense of identity , such a ceaseless , hopeless questing , I could not help but sympathise with : how many books had I seen which asked Who Are The Scots ? |
| 14 | Of course , I had heard these same sentiments expressed by his lordship on many occasions before , but such was the depth of conviction with which he spoke in this august setting that I could not help but be moved afresh . |
| 15 | I could not help but remember myself , another pretty fair-haired boy , who also wanted his own way at that age , and how I wound Uncle Bill 's heart round my little finger and was perhaps responsible for the tragedy caused by a savagely jealous dog . |
| 16 | As I arrived at the recent show of Eileen Cooper 's drawings at the Benjamin Rhodes Gallery after visiting the controversial ( read media-hype ) show , Strange Developments , at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery , I could not help but find great comfort in the sheer generosity of spirit with which these big drawings greet you . |
| 17 | ‘ Forgive me , Lady Theodosia , but I could not help but overhear something of what has transpired in this room . ’ |
| 18 | I could not argue or explain , or feel anything but fatigue and dismay . |
| 19 | I felt I could not breathe and murmured as best I could ‘ Take me ’ . |
| 20 | So , in a curious lurid calm which could not last and yet , it seemed , could not end , the days went by . |
| 21 | She could not speak or understand much , and her character was greatly changed . |
| 22 | She could not move or speak . |
| 23 | She could not sleep and , remembering that Ronald Travis would be on duty , decided to wait until her parents had gone to bed , then slip outside and go to the signal box to see her lover . |
| 24 | When she came to Calvary , ‘ she fell down because she could not stand or kneel , and rolled and wrested with her body , spreading her arms abroad ’ , because she had a vision , or hallucination , of the Crucifixion . |
| 25 | In what is believed to be the first case of its kind in Scotland , the teenager alleges that after more than a year of taunting and physical attack she could not continue and left the Royal High School . |
| 26 | She could not refuse and indeed found it quite easy to accept . |
| 27 | ‘ She started to grow very short of breath then and the decline was more and more rapid until she could not walk or move around . |
| 28 | It worried her to think of it , still alive , perhaps to harm someone else in a land she could not name and would never see . |
| 29 | They were speaking words she could not grasp but now they were speaking them to her rather than to each other and their tone was sympathetic , cajoling . |
| 30 | Then there arrived a rainbow of stronger colours and she could have wept for its strident spectrum that came to disturb the pastel gavotte of suns , but it had a strength she could not resist and a hundred thousand pullulating meanings that tugged at her . |