Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [pron] could not " in BNC.
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| 1 | But again , they do n't , and Joyce is enabling us to hear something we could not hear outside his novel . |
| 2 | To start what she could not finish . |
| 3 | What prompted her to invite him she could not have explained , but there was something about him — an air of loneliness , perhaps , though it was more than that — which made her suddenly want to tell him that he could rely on her friendship . |
| 4 | As we came upon the moving picture with its ability not only to entertain us but also to analyse what we could not easily see with the unaided eye , we began to recognize that we had new tools for discovery ; we now knew exactly how a horse used its feet in galloping , what an explosion was like in slow motion , what a street looked like to the condensed eye of the time-lapse camera . |
| 5 | Then they were aware of something , out there beyond the benches , which they could sense moving silently in the mist , and though he strained to see it he could not quite catch the thing in one place , for it seemed to come ant go , larger than the bench and bin , looming nearer but not quite seen , dark and grey and pointing to the sky . |
| 6 | At the same time , he would n't feel at all happy were she to marry someone she could not possibly love simply to make her life easier , more luxurious . |
| 7 | It was , he thought , to tell him he could not trust him . |