Example sentences of "could not [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since you could not go abroad you honeymooned on the south coast at resorts such as Bournemouth where there was barbed wire on the beaches . |
| 2 | The Court held on the one hand that the protection of the Directive was a matter of public policy and so the worker could not trade away his right under the Directive to the maintenance of the same terms and conditions , even if ‘ the employee obtains new benefits in compensation for the disadvantages resulting from an amendment to his contract of employment so that , taking the matter as a whole , he is not placed in a worse position than before ’ ( point 15 ) . |
| 3 | Jenna did not have her mother 's memories , she could not conjure up his face , and she knew that this fact alone would haunt her if she stayed away . |
| 4 | He and his wife could not move around their own home without a police escort . |
| 5 | Yet — strangely — it did seem to be her concern , and — equally strangely — she could not decide why it should be so important for her to understand the true state of his feelings towards Doreen . |
| 6 | She just could not think why you needed special socks if you slept in a single bed ! |
| 7 | She could not think why she had said it . |
| 8 | I could not think quite what to say and murmured something unintelligible . |
| 9 | She could not make up her mind whether to risk wearing them for the competition . |
| 10 | The Great War and those more recent conflicts were put together and ‘ paid-for ’ on behalf of politicians who could not make up their minds or bring the problems to the debating-table ; who preferred the shouting and smearing , the innuendo and hate for their opponents ' parties , to the welfare and the good of their people . |
| 11 | They could not make up their minds whether they would like to live there . |
| 12 | Wellington could not make up its mind , so nominated both . |
| 13 | Because of the ‘ unconvincing nature ’ of the compromise , he could not make up his mind whether he should apply for membership . |
| 14 | Other Hamlets have been as wrong-headed : Laurence Olivier 's of 1948 , perhaps , which charted ‘ the tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind ’ , or Grigori Konzintsev 's Marxist version of 1964 . |
| 15 | He could not make up his mind about Swayne . |
| 16 | I could not make up my mind which was cause and which effect . |
| 17 | And when a half-page profile of Jean-Claude appeared in Le Nouvel Observateur I really could not make up my mind whether he was more genuinely displeased than pleased . |
| 18 | He could not make out its face but saw it was looking through the book he had just found with the complicated title . |
| 19 | Endill could not make out what he was shouting but whatever it was it was not very friendly . |
| 20 | He could not make out what was being said in the kitchen below . |
| 21 | Dodging the shell bursts ' debris as branches fell from the large wahrazin trees above shallow trenches by the headquarters , Bernard Callinan could not make out what craft was shelling them , but through the mist he could hear the rumble of small boats ' engines . |
| 22 | This worried me because I could not make out what I had done this time to annoy her . |
| 23 | He watched its greenish , powerful beak stabbing the ground but could not make out what it was doing . |
| 24 | His lips seemed to be mouthing something , but Robert could not make out what it was . |
| 25 | Instead , she turned it on so low that at first Tug could not make out anything except a faint crackling and hissing . |
| 26 | But she could not make out his face , obscured from her by shadow and the oblique angle at which he had set his seat . |
| 27 | The he made a U turn and drove away so rapidly that she could not make out his number , only the red tail light diminishing , at more than legal speed , down the deserted Embankment . |
| 28 | But whether he went across the seas or not he could not pass off his own deeds under Robert 's name . |
| 29 | After she 'd attended to Lucien 's wound , which was hurting so much he could not tell when she was touching it , she lit a bowl of tamara weed and other herbs to induce sleep . |
| 30 | He could not tell why he was fascinated with this girl . |