Example sentences of "we could [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could n't bring her into the house because we had an old cat and we had no spare kennels , so that just left the caravan . |
| 2 | we could n't bring any apples though yesterday , not taking me car with |
| 3 | He 's got dog to walk tonight cos we could n't bring him cos the car was full of gear . |
| 4 | We could n't realise who was doing it , but it was very mixed up , so we were trying to be as neutral as possible , without getting dragged into it directly . |
| 5 | But we could n't think of many states with a strong enough identity to have a symposium about . |
| 6 | We could n't think what was happening to you . ’ |
| 7 | So we could n't think of any reason to keep Scope 's stunning new snap of Courteney Cox from you a moment longer . |
| 8 | ‘ We could n't think where you were , ’ said my mother , ‘ we hunted for you for hours . ’ |
| 9 | Oh I erm found out what that brass instrument we could n't think of . |
| 10 | ‘ George Bradley came up with this great idea of putting an accordion band together for a record and we could n't think of a name , ’ said Emerald chief George Doherty . |
| 11 | We could n't sense that , a few hundred feet above us up the ridge , David Simpson 's and Jane Lapiner 's house had shaken apart , that rocks had thundered down the cliff face opposite my house , that a mile to the north at the precise moment that we were walking through Jim 's house and I was spreading out the blueprints on the hood of my car to continue our conversation , an overturned electric coffee pot in the Petrolia store had already started a blaze that would finish off the store and our adjoining post office in about 45 minutes . |
| 12 | Well they might be a friendly , oh I do n't really know but er he 's so busy you see and he 's busy all kinds of day and night , now then , we asked him a while ago to be more careful when he was switching on the freezer units at night because they were waking people up , we asked him er a while ago if he 'd be more careful learning up at six o'clock in the morning because the chain and that we could n't sleep in the morning like , and all disturbing us all like that |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And er we had a plan for to build a building with er dressing accommodation and er this was gon na cost seven thousand pound when we could n't face it , we thought that there were far more important things to deal with than that when we had housing , we had just had a housing report which said that two thousand houses in the town were not up to the modern standard . |
| 15 | The trouble was , we could believe in the Continent being overrun again , but we could n't face up to it happening here . |
| 16 | We could n't review it ‘ coz US Gold never sent us a copy , but most of the games are featured in Phil 's Issue 88 sports roundup . |
| 17 | On our own , we could n't cope with life , with things in general . |
| 18 | It was obvious we could n't cope , but who on earth could we rely on to sort us out ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ We could n't forget her and we started to write and visit . |
| 22 | We could n't load save it could we ? |
| 23 | Some of the holes even we could n't reach in two on the par-4s , they were playing so hard and long . |
| 24 | We could n't get it forward properly , we could n't pass to each other and they had I think they still only had one chance second half and managed to squeeze it in to get a point . |
| 25 | We could n't walk , as we used . |
| 26 | ‘ I mind we 've had snow , we could n't walk round in it , we had to dig tunnels ! |
| 27 | One lad with us , a genuine Cockney , finished up by explaining to this ( probably normally ) mild-mannered Italian who spoke no English at all that we could n't pay because we were ‘ borassic ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ We 'd been evicted when we could n't pay the rent because the potatoes failed . |
| 29 | But we could n't pay . |
| 30 | ‘ We could n't control the car . ’ |