Example sentences of "could not [verb] [verb] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Dierdriu only said , ‘ And so you went away , and Grainne stayed , and when you came back to Tara , first as a soldier in the Fiana and then as its head , I could not bear to send you away again , Fergus . |
| 2 | I could not bear losing you any longer , I had to kill him . |
| 3 | But when you were My Princess I could not bear to imagine you stained by me . |
| 4 | What is more , you are not permitted to marry , and you know it ; yet you let me spend money I could not afford to buy you a ring . |
| 5 | a wisdom I could not have given you |
| 6 | He could not have returned you to England no matter how hard he had tried . ’ |
| 7 | And even the anger was mainly at myself because I could n't stop wanting you , even after Matilda warned me of your … usefulness . ’ |
| 8 | I was so scared you 'd notice I was avoiding you — that was the last thing I wanted — but I simply could n't bear to watch you struggle . |
| 9 | I could n't bear to see you again . |
| 10 | I could n't bear to let you see me so upset . |
| 11 | And if you think about it logically you must know I could n't have followed you . |
| 12 | Besides , I could n't have forgotten you ! ’ |
| 13 | Simon was out of control : he could n't have told you what his next move was going to be . |
| 14 | Mark says , ‘ I 'd given my consent to AID but I could n't have told you how I might feel if Wendy did conceive . |
| 15 | When we could talk on the telephone every day and I could n't come to see you . ’ |
| 16 | I know I could n't begin to give you the kind of life you 'd have with Dunbar , but I 'd do everything in my power to make you happy . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , I could n't begin to tell you all that 's wrong with me . ’ |
| 18 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 19 | But I told you before — I could n't afford to pay you what you 're worth . |
| 20 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 21 | I asked , knowing that his type just could n't wait to get you involved . |