Example sentences of "we could [not/n't] cope " in BNC.
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| 1 | On our own , we could n't cope with life , with things in general . |
| 2 | It was obvious we could n't cope , but who on earth could we rely on to sort us out ? |
| 3 | I mean , it is n't as though we have to operate a policy in which we heavily advertise the availability of grants , it , it can develop via word of mouth , if we advertise anything , we would be inundated with demand for to a level that we could n't cope with . |
| 4 | Well now in nineteen twenty six we had the general strike , and the conditions in Ipswich were so violent that our Borough Police we could n't cope with them , and our Chief Constable , he had to apply to the Home Office and he got permission to have men from East Suffolk and West Suffolk Police , Cambridge County Police , Huntingdon Police sent some , and they were billeted in hotels in the town centre . |
| 5 | The former road-builder , now Field Marshal , Wade , with 6000 men , was despatched to Newcastle , prompting a notable pun by a local woman : ‘ Since we could not COPE with out present difficulties , we must WADE through them . ’ |
| 6 | Usually the two pilots who are on night duty sleep in the ambulance but the driver and medical orderly who also sleep in it had worked up a terrific ‘ fug ’ — ‘ Imshi ’ Mason and I felt we could not cope with the smell of unwashed feet , etc. , so we dragged the two stretchers out . ’ |