Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hebbert and McFall do , Hebbert decided , and he persuaded his partner they could not leave it at that after such a long flog up the mountainside . |
| 2 | If she could not consume them at least she could hold them . |
| 3 | However , she could not avoid it at The Tamarisks , for although Fru Møller offered a generous choice of hors d'œuvres and puddings she did not provide a choice of main course and Elisabeth would not have dreamt of placing herself at a disadvantage by drawing attention to her disability and pleading for something easier than steak to swallow . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't — yes , I could do that , ’ said Caspar , who could not do it at all , but could see that there was no other answer to be given . |
| 5 | But when I later tried to find my way back to the dining-room to finish my meal , which should have been a simple thing to do , I just could not locate it at all . |
| 6 | She could not feel anything at all — the anaesthetic having done its job — and she could not see anything as her eyes were tightly closed . |
| 7 | Maggie 's face flushed hotly and she was glad that Ana could not see her at that moment . |
| 8 | Though the hardpressed French could not see it at the time , something had in fact gone dramatically wrong with the meticulous German plans ; that is , with the Crown Prince 's plans . |
| 9 | One of them , Machik , ‘ manifested great inventiveness , cunning and insidiousness in his struggle against the Russian authorities , and the voevody could not take him at his word ’ . |
| 10 | She could not convince me at the time that anything bad could happen , now that I had finally ‘ solved ’ my eating problems , and for a short time I felt jubilant , relieved and ecstatic . |
| 11 | Robert could not understand it at first , but , after he put his ear back to the window , it resolved itself into two syllables : |
| 12 | Often they could not find them at all . |
| 13 | My parents had died when I was a baby , so I could not remember them at all , but quite often I used to visit the churchyard , about a mile from the village , to look at their names on their gravestones . |
| 14 | But she could not remember anything at all about them . |
| 15 | and could n't clear it at the end of the quarter ? |
| 16 | Erm , we , we could n't nominate anyone at the A G M , no one was willing to do it . |
| 17 | But I could n't leave it at that . |
| 18 | One girl whispered that she could n't tell anyone at home , because they used drugs . |
| 19 | No but you see I could n't tell you at the start because you 'd sound , you would n't have said half the things you did say . |
| 20 | Sometimes our bodies and minds seek excuses to experience griefs that we may have put aside or denied because we could n't face them at the time . |
| 21 | The registry office could n't marry them at such short notice and they must wait until the following day . |
| 22 | He so concentrated on his dialogue — I never had to reshoot a scene because Kenny fluffed a line — that he could n't do anything at the same time as he was talking . ’ |
| 23 | He added : ‘ Ferzana wanted to watch TV and could n't do it at the family gathering . ’ |
| 24 | My leg had gone completely to sleep and I could n't feel it at all , but I managed to hobble to the door , collecting fourpence out of my wallet , and down the stairs to the first landing where the telephone was . |
| 25 | Derby winner Dr Devious also raced freely before weakening into 10th and jockey Chris McCarron , who replaced regular rider John Reid , reported afterwards : ‘ I could n't control him at all . ’ |
| 26 | She said she 's absolutely brilliant she said you could n't fault her at all . |
| 27 | I could n't stand chemistry anyway , could n't understand it at all , the atoms and the neutrons and all that . |
| 28 | They could n't understand it at the time , and nor could I. None of us has any religious sense , there were n't any fundamentalist kinsmen to pacify : the absence of a fellow in a frilly white frock would n't have led to the suppuku of disinheritance . |
| 29 | She looked sad and Jenna could n't understand it at all . |
| 30 | so , you know , I looked under the bonnet , I could n't understand it at all tt , er , so I eventually got a lift and got a ride down into Malham and er , went in the telephone box there |