Example sentences of "you could [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A fucking lion tamer , ’ he said , looking at Paddy , ‘ ye could n't tame a pussy cat . ’ |
| 2 | Vienna Dear Fräulein Arandt , I am sorry you could not bring yourself to tell me about your parents . |
| 3 | If you wanted to devise a scheme to slow down growth , you could not do better . |
| 4 | How many times have you told yourself you could not do something but when you ultimately faced up and had a go , to your amazement you succeeded . |
| 5 | The restructuring school answered that you could not do that anyway , because the importance of a variable precisely depended on the wider context in which it was operating , but the most important contextual reason was probably manufacturing industry 's need to cut costs in face of newly increasing competition . |
| 6 | In Britain you could not do better than to pick out from the varied products of the author John Wainwright , an ex-policeman , those of his books that are in the police procedural mode . |
| 7 | Or was it the pleasure of having men 's eyes on you that you could not do without ? ’ |
| 8 | And I 'm glad enough to have you back , since you could not give me the grandson I hoped for — ’ |
| 9 | You could not hide from God . |
| 10 | You could not hide extreme good looks any more than you could disguise extreme ugliness . |
| 11 | Jammed down your throat so that you could not speak . |
| 12 | You could not snap them off , as perhaps Rachaela 's own mother had tried to do . |
| 13 | ‘ You could not go far wrong being bedded by an angel ! ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Why was it right to train a fellow and you knew , or you felt that , you could not go to the flight commander or the wing commander and say a think this fellow should go down the pits , " or a think we should remuster him to the Army or the Navy " . |
| 16 | Speaking to a motion carried by the conference calling for a housing policy review and for ‘ massive public investment ’ in quality homes for rent , he said he was glad Labour was now addressing the problem , for you could not build decent homes without creating a safe environment to live in . |
| 17 | In Jamaica , you could not avoid learning . |
| 18 | He spoke so that you could not avoid hearing his conversation . |
| 19 | You could not avoid it there . |
| 20 | Once you knew they were there , you could not forget . |
| 21 | If you decided on the first day of the PIW you could not pay the SSP or that you had to stop paying SSP during the PIW , you employee can not get SSP now . |
| 22 | I was prepared to tell la Principessa you could not pay her a visit . ’ |
| 23 | He did not as yet know all the details of how they had died , and what had gone before , but rumour had it that no great physical strength had been involved so that you could not rule out a woman as the killer . |
| 24 | Something you could not mention before the men , perhaps ? ’ |
| 25 | There were so many people in the room that you could not pass a needle between them , so how it was that the Gypsy Kings , carrying large musical instruments and followed by a television crew , came to arrive at the dinner table unmaimed , must remain a mystery for ever . |
| 26 | ‘ I had n't quite seen it like that , ’ McLeish acknowledged humbly , remembering that the beautiful woman in front of him , whom you could not suppose ever to have encountered rejection in any form , had lost a father when young , and had been so little attached to her stepfather that she had left home at the earliest opportunity . |
| 27 | He could see it ahead of him , like a rock you could not miss . |
| 28 | Are there songs when when you er are in concert as you are tonight , are there songs that you could not miss out ? |
| 29 | ‘ You snored all night , ’ he said with relish , and Cermait got up and removed himself from this low vulgar company , because you could not stay in a room with people who told the High Queen that you snored . |
| 30 | Marguerite 's rush of words almost drowned out Alain 's harsh intake of breath , but he said nothing at all as Marguerite went on , ‘ Now I know why you could not stay longer . |