Example sentences of "could n't [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to all who valued Hoover , of course , it could n't mean a damn thing . |
| 2 | He started shaking if you said ‘ Hello ’ too loudly and for several hours after his punishment felt very hungry because he could n't hold a knife and fork long enough to get the food into his mouth . |
| 3 | Even manager Lawrie McMenemy admitted : ‘ There were times when teams could n't hold a candle to England but that 's all changed now . |
| 4 | They 'd been engaged twice but she kept breaking it off because he could n't hold a job down . |
| 5 | ‘ He could n't hold a conversation about anything else . |
| 6 | you could n't hold a conversation she said with her , |
| 7 | This one could n't rape a prostitute if she came and sat on his knee . |
| 8 | ‘ Sorry , I could n't manage a table . ’ |
| 9 | Brenda could n't manage a smile , but she shut her lips tight to keep herself from crying — which the Brownie Guider noticed , although she did n't show that she had . |
| 10 | Margaret could n't inflict a baby on her . |
| 11 | But she was n't a make-up artist for nothing — if she could n't perform a speedy transformation , then she did n't deserve her job . |
| 12 | Not he he could n't handle a a roast duck or er could n't roast a duck or anything like that you know . |
| 13 | ‘ You could n't upset a friend , ’ Eve said . |
| 14 | Surely , Masha and I had said , there were safeguards ; a madman on his own simply could n't unleash a nuclear warhead ? |
| 15 | Could n't swim a stroke . |
| 16 | I could n't open a book , attend a seminar , lecture or tutorial , even go to the library , without getting an erection . |
| 17 | In the past , in the past these children would be so severely mentally handicapped that they could n't lead a normal life , but if , if your able to control this disease and bring them up intellectually normal so that they 're like everybody else , they 're going to have the same life expectation and hopes and aspirations as the best , that 's the best of us , and what do women do when they get to the |
| 18 | I also could n't hide a snigger when the commentator mentioned Batts ' meagre goal rate of one per hundred games . |
| 19 | I could n't stand a smelly cat tearin' me 'ome ter pieces , ’ she told him . |
| 20 | Comments such as these are quite common : e.g. " I 'll have nothing to do with religion — that vicar down the road could n't care a damn for anyone . " |
| 21 | You were condemned of people then you could n't care a damn about it cos you could n't do anything about it because your methods of running a country was a waste of time . |
| 22 | Welsh could n't grade a bag of Homepride . |
| 23 | Not he he could n't handle a a roast duck or er could n't roast a duck or anything like that you know . |
| 24 | They could n't handle a nervous breakdown . |
| 25 | , no Deb I could n't handle a little skingy one . |
| 26 | But he could n't invent a love that had never been there and he felt that Lou would be better off without him . |
| 27 | ‘ They said there was nothing wrong with me and there should n't be any reason why I could n't carry a child , ’ she says . |
| 28 | That did n't mean I could n't acquire a bird of my own , though . |
| 29 | They did n't know what he was so excited about , and his father was disgusted to find that I could n't draw a footballer ( an unKerridgean species ) . |
| 30 | Before you yawn , this really is a program with a difference — it 's aimed at people like me , who could n't draw a raffle . |