I couldn't

I couldn't be more delighted, said Parry. He has decided to stay with us because he realises how much the club means to him.

He was playing very, very well, and I couldn't manage to push him to the back of the court. The balls were a bit heavy.

"Since I couldn't find the right engagement ring, " he said, "this will have to do, " and he firmly stamped my hand.

Before that, I couldn't see it or feel it, so there was no way for me to know it was there.

Not being able to see, I could take it but I couldn't dish it out.

I couldn't tell you a thing that happened the rest of that evening. Except that i was the happiest man alive.

No matter how much I tried, I couldn't quiet my mind.

Well, I was trying to enter my house, but you were standing in the way, and I couldn't get in!

A young man attached himself to me at the party and I couldn't get rid of him.

Whatever! Piers Brosnan is an old man and he's getting fat. I couldn't possibly be jealous of him.

He asked(me)if I could swim and I said I couldn't.

I couldn't escape one simple thought, I hated my place in the word, I had so much to say and no one to listen.

Nobody knew at the time, but my shoulder kept popping in and out during matches; it was very painful and I couldn't play at my best.

I must have had a brainstorm I couldn't remember my own telephone number for a moment.

I couldn't stand his suffering or seeing him lying there like a vegetable-not any longer-a man of his vitality.

It got to the point where I couldn't remember any of the reasons I loved him.

I am very grateful to him for that. It was a pity that I couldn't do anything for him but took some photos of them.

By the time I wanted to let him know I was not the decision-maker on such a purchase, I couldn't get a word in edge-wise.

'Sir Charles had left his footprints all over that little bit of the path where he was standing. I couldn't see any other prints. '

But it was really interesting, because I was able to make some progress because I couldn't believe how much my behavior changed my thoughts.

Little by little my shaking shoulders are becoming shabby and I couldn't even tell you to turn around and look at them.

My parents wanted me to be a doctor , but I couldn't have put up with all those years of study .

Mom, your love is just like a bar of candy, with a package of ceaseless chatter and scold; I couldn't find it out until I grow up.

The moment you walked away from me, I knew there was no way I could ever pull you out of your world and into mine. But I couldn't give up.

What if, by the time I finally decided if I wanted one of these tests, I couldn't buy one anymore?

I couldn't be able to write my own network diary though i tried for quite a while . Finally i can write my own mood tonight.

I can't make it out. I couldn't find him at his hotel nor in any of the places where he was likely to be.

It was a request I couldn't honor, but we did use the name Cougar a few years later for a fine new car in the Lincoln-Mercury division.

But for him to do this for a 14-year-old girl he'd never met, and for it to be his idea . . . I couldn't be more impressed.

He attached himself to me at the party and I couldn't get rid of him.

I couldn't agree with you more. Someone's got to be tough if you want to stay in business.

It is not easy to live with a free press. But I know I couldn't live without it.

I began to have "withdrawal symptoms" , but I couldn't risk my career with a wife and kid on the way.

"Never mind, then, " she said. "I couldn't be with someone who evidently has no taste. "

It's hard to tell you what I felt in the changing room, the coach told me I had to play the second half but I replied that I couldn't.

And my worry was that while I quite enjoyed his new documentary series, I couldn't think of a single question to ask about it.

Some people take that to be cocky or conceited, but I wasn't going to let anybody tell me that I couldn't do whatever I set out to do.

She waited to see if I had anything to say, but I couldn`t think of anything.

They asked me how much profit we had made during the energy crisis, and I couldn't for the life of me come up with a figure.

We didn't have this planned. But we decided to stop by just to say hello, when I heard my boys were going to be here. I couldn't resist.

When Katie broke up with me a week before Christmas, I couldn't bring myself to tell Mary Ann.

Grandma looked so much like a kid caught with her hand in a cookie jar that I couldn't help myself, and a slightly nervous laughter escaped.

But I couldn't get out of the requirement, and so I found myself in my last semester before graduation with Speech as one of my classes.

I was glad not to be lodge-bound, but it was harder than I expected: I couldn't catch my breath and my knees felt like glass.

And I couldn't be happier, because this tells me that the motion is that of a simple harmonic oscillation.

It size is as large as common barn swallows. If I didn't check that bird with my binocular, I couldn't find it out.

It was far away for me, but I could see that it was a helicopter and it went down on the backside of the mountain where I couldn't see.

We couldn't believe it - I knew it must be a coincidence and yet, this time, I couldn't help feeling our experiences were linked.

It was a pity that I couldn't attend the ceremony because I ought to leave on the next morning.

It was still dark and I couldn't see much, but there appeared to be some dark shadows in the car - or was that just a trick of the night?

Rogue's seem to be able to stun lock a lot more for a lot longer and I couldn't tell why, but it was obnoxious.

Some of the magnolia leaves have a bit of shimmer . . . I couldn't resist enhancing many of them with a little metallic craft paint.

This scared the utter hell out of me because what I felt was a tall man, with long greasy hair but I couldn't make out his face.

The door locked accidentally, and I couldn't get out of the bathroom.

I couldn't help it! When a fist comes at your face, you duck! Look! -What is the matter with you?

She had the side of her mouth right smack on the pillow, and I couldn't hear her.

There seems to be a barrier between us. And when I was a student here, I found that I couldn't get all the British jokes either.

The only problem was, I couldn't look him in the eye for weeks afterwards, and he had no idea what the problem was.

It was as if my body knew that I couldn't nap, so it just gave me a gentle signal until the situation made napping practical.

Eventually it had to end, as we both knew it must. I got rid of all the love letters, but I couldn't quite chuck out the book.

I reasoned with him for hours, but I couldn't persuade him to change his mind.

Somehow I knew that this wasn't another tap on the shoulder, that I might be starting something I couldn't stop.

I couldn't stay sat on it; it was smaller and less stable than I thought. And I couldn't pull my legs up; they hurt too much.

He wanted something for his cough but I couldn't find the cough syrup. I substituted Ex-Lax and told him to take it all at once.

Sometimes I couldn't bear to be in Shane's room. I felt as if I were going to explode or go insane.

He proceeded to help me to write in such a way that I couldn't be torn apart by my more pompous scientific colleagues.

I couldn't remember any more of it, and Miss Thomson said the poet had a better memory than I had.

I couldn't catch what he said. He spoke in a pig's whisper.

A thirteen-year-old girl from Kentucky wrote me to say that I'd made a mistake, but I couldn't quit, because my opponents were mean.

Give it a try! I'm always complaining that I couldn't find the right way. But now your idea will work out the problem.

'Then, just a few years ago, I realised it was now me that couldn't get a limp piece of thread through a hole I couldn't see.

And there was one bloke -- well, I couldn't give you 'is. name, but a real powerful speaker 'e was.

In fact, I couldn't seem to get out of it.

Over the next 48 hours I beamed with pride at my newborn child who fed constantly and slept well, although I couldn't seem to sleep myself.

Yeah, that's what I said. I couldn't believe that, you knows like you don't, you can't do that.

But I couldn`t see myself talking into cassettes for her or meeting her to read aloud.

"It was the best moment in my life, " he said, "I couldn't believe how much I looked like him. "

He walked slowly, struggling. I wished I could tell him to put me down and let me walk, but I couldn't find my voice.

All I wanted was to get outside and join my husband. We were newlyweds and I couldn't wait to see him.

I saw you in a nightclub and finally gathered the courage to ask if you'd like a drink. I couldn't believe my luck when you said yes.

It hurt so much I woke up, and found I couldn't move. That's why it took me so long to answer the door.

In 1954, he opened his first salon in London. "I gave myself five years. If I couldn't change anything, I was out of there. "

"Too busy, " he said. And then he said something I couldn't quite get hold of at the time. "It's nature, " he said. "The force of nature. "

MM: As a child I always painted my toenails, but I had a terrible fingernail biting habit that I couldn't seem to cure.

I'm sorry I couldn't see you all day. It just got away from me. Oh, god. I wish the summer won't ending. I forgot how much fun it is.

I couldn't believe that of all the people on the street that this American would pick me to ask for direction.

Well, I used to do haiku, but I had to give it up because I couldn't think of any good lines.

I couldn't take it to a laboratory and experiment with it But by faith I said, I believe Him, and He came into my heart and changed my life.

Then after a while he just sort of stopped and I couldn't tell if he was laughing or crying.

His tiny hand was holding on to my finger, and I couldn't help remembering his mother's hand in mine over thirty years ago.

Then after a while he just sort of stopped and I couldn't tell if he was laughing or crying.

His tiny hand was holding on to my finger, and I couldn't help remembering his mother's hand in mine over thirty years ago.

When the bullet struck just a few inches above his head, i couldn't help saying to myself: a miss is as good as a mile.

He seemed to have so many things to talk about with me that I couldn't be free for my blog at all this whole day!

But with college expenses looming, I couldn't help thinking that it would be really nice if he used his graduation cash for that instead.

He just sat there talking all the evening and I couldn't get rid of him.

I couldn't move my legs. It was as if they were stuck to the floor.

A pity I couldn't close it out in three, but I'm happy the way I played in the end, and that was a good feeling to have.

What he said got to me, so I couldn't sleep well.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

I said I couldn't remember my life without him and they said they would support me, even offering to help pay for some of my trips.

You've got to be joking . I couldn't disagree with you more .

I began to start analyzing my situation to understand why I couldn't wake up early, through a self-questioning process.

I'd like to have come over to see you last night , but someone called and I couldn't get away .

I couldn't find out much of his accomplishments, perhaps he's only in office about a year and half before he died.

I couldn't look at him in the face. Damn, I'm really bad at tying shoes. My feet were safer to look at then his face.

After a while, I began to think about going back to work after the holiday. So I couldn't enjoy myself much.

I'm a real jeans and T-shirt girl, and I couldn't find the exact shirts I liked, so I decided to do something of my own.

"I tried to get to her myself, but it all started falling down and I couldn't carry on, " he said.

I couldn't see her face in the dark, but I got the feeling she smiled as she took a seat.

If I couldn't change his mind, I should talk to the press outside the White House and withdraw my support for his reelection.

I couldn't lie to him. And if only you knew how much I loved him and how much I wanted to marry him!

I knew he was going to come back onto the circuit once he hits the wall, but I couldn't see him as he was too much to the side.

He was saying something, but tears misted my eyes, and I couldn' t understand what he was saying.

As a guest, I dismissed all this as pathology, but I couldn't help considering his wife with profound curiosity.

I couldn't go anywhere with my son unaided; I found it impossible to carry him in his car seat, and then hoist him in and out of the car.

How could I relinquish my laptop for a week or even a day? But I couldn't continue without a workable "t. "

She got steeped in the shower of yesterday evening, and there she has sat the night through, and I couldn't prevail on her to stir. '

It was like casting an archangel as an accountant; I couldn't visualize him in any commonplace role.

My wife and I couldn't figure him out. Then I started taking pictures of him around the house.

Down the track, further than I could have imagined, there lay a goose and then other scattered objects that I couldn't properly see.

Heather was quiet for a moment. I couldn't tell if he thought I was overreacting. But the look on her face said it was something else.

Once, he came down on a Sunday afternoon. "I need a cup of flour, " he said. It was clumsy, but I couldn't help myself.

I told her that I'd love to, but I couldn't surf. After she left I cursed myself for not seizing the opportunity to be with her.

Little by little I begin to hate my stained face and I couldn't even tell you to turn around and look at it.

Just like that, I realized I was in a cycle, and I had so much, I couldn't even figure out what I wanted to wear any more.

Because I couldn't help him with the matter, he gave me a cold shoulder.

I loved her and I couldn't wait to see her because it had been so long since I'd held her in my arms.

"He had been a little bit odd for several months, but I couldn't really put my finger on it, " Laura says.

I couldn't have got to the meeting on time if I had not caught an earlier train.

I couldn't believe she did that! It was a bit much.

I couldn't find much about his accomplishments. () because he was only in office of about a year and half years before he died.

Yes, the moment I left the house, I realized how much I love you and I couldn't bear the thought of leaving.

Part of me was relieved that this was about to happen, that they were going to do the dirty work that I couldn't do.

It was like reverse culture shock for me. I couldn't believe how much food they wasted.

I remember reading that it had been written by a 21-year-old and I couldn't believe that someone that young had written something so wise.

You know Paula, who I couldn't look at the beginning of the series. . . I love her to death now.

I cannot but view that he was lying, for that reason, I couldn't apologize instead of him.

I wasn't happy with the fifth one at all, and I literally spent 10 years trying to eat all the negatives , and I couldn't do it. . .

I am still trying to get on stable financial ground, but compared to a year ago, when I couldn't make ends meet, I am light years ahead.

I couldn't find one but I was sure I could design one that would allow her to communicate more with us, ' he said.

There was no light and I couldn't see anything anyway. I was trying to figure out what happened.

I spent less time with my friends because going out with the group meant I couldn't bring my new boyfriend since his ex would be there.

[in his letter to Holly about their first meet] I had no idea what you were talking about, but I couldn't help loving the way you talked.

Everything worked well, but I found one of my husband's socks missing. I looked everywhere for it, but I couldn't find it anywhere.

"I couldn't stop myself from crying, " recalls Kashi, 52. "All I could think of was the sadness of her life, of dying alone. "

I couldn't be sure if my whispering was a wasted effort. Even though we were upstairs, with the door closed, perhaps he could hear me.

He looked like a grasshopper in a fit when he did the new step. Laurie and I couldn't help laughing. Did you hear us?

His words and that look happened in a hundredth of a second, but the whole universe became still and I couldn't hear a thing.

I had to do it because now no one can point fingers at him. My only regret is that I couldn't end my own life.

Still, like most skiers, I couldn't bear the thought of being left out of any morning skiing and cautiously stretched my limbs to warm up.

If I couldn't stand up to the fear that had gripped me since high school, regret would become my permanent condition.

I couldn't be happier but I had to act as if I was sad and upset.

I'm sorry I couldn't get in touch with him before he left, I ought to have telephoned him earlier.

Suddenly, the boy grasped my hand. But I couldn't grasp what he was trying to do.

In 2009 we finished second and to go one step higher, a very high step, I couldn't be of any more use at the age of 37.

But I knew I couldn't trust him. There was the possibility that he was a political swindler.

I called her several times, but I couldn't get her. So I figured she was on her vacation.

This huge crack appeared in the wall of the apartment and then widened as if shoved apart by hands I couldn't see.

It seemed as if I couldn't think of the right word anyhow .

Eg. I couldn't imagine her having the kind of hole and corner affair that had to be conducted in a dusty workroom.

What I learned from these people and others was that I couldn't judge them based on their failure to meet their very lofty goals.

e. g. When she asked me if I liked her dress I had to tell a white lie. I thought it looked awful, but I couldn't say no!

But it was all really a bit pointless and I couldn't be bothered.

My family told me that it was an opportunity I couldn't turn down.

I appreciate all the things you do for me to help me and take care of me. I couldn't have asked for a better Mom. Happy mother's Day!

I couldn't get my plane out of Argentina due to the control tower problem, so I phoned everyone I knew to see if they could help.

I faced an excellent player today, and I couldn't use any of the opportunities I had. He was a very good player and he beat me today.

But this was actually one thing I couldn't do; I couldn't retreat from the party and the platform that I had given so much of my life to.

Although he did not mean it this way, I couldn't help but think of a condemned man being asked for his final words.

If I couldn't forget it, I think I was quite curious about what I would be looking like if I change the hair style.

Since last midnight. It hurt so much I couldn't sleep at all. This morning I saw that the skin was red, hot and swollen.

I couldn't help wonder, no matter how far you travel and how much you run from it, can you really skip your past?

"Harry, what was that all about? " said Ron, wiping sweat off his face. "I couldn't hear anything. . . . "

I couldn't get there fast enough. And from the moment I claimed him, he gave his heart t o me completely.

Lady: Regardless, I must go. I had a chance to stop him before, but I couldn't. I'm responsible for all this mess.

Anyway, I managed to get the wall back to where it was supposed to be, so I couldn't care less about the yellow card!

Showing off her acting abilities, she screamed at me that I couldn't return it.

Although our relationship did not progress or digress as I imagined or feared, I couldn't have written a more perfect story.

I read the novel three times, yet I couldn't pin down what exactly the author was trying to say.

Hi, I couldn't help but overhear. . . you were talking about this new development with the sales department. . .

But I knew I couldn't trust him. There was always the possibility that he was a political swindler.

Through you I was able to see the good things about myself that I couldn't have seen on my own.

Uhm, I couldn't be more excited, you know, I'm here to help this team win and bring a championship back to Chicago.

As I listened. I couldn't help but think of my own oldest daughter who was now beginning her freshman year in college, just like me.

He had lied to me, and I couldn't forgive him for that.

At school the next day, I couldn't seem to concentrate.

I couldn't help bursting into cry when I watched it at the first time, for it aroused a strong resonance in the bottom of my heart.

And I couldn't help to open it again. . . he said Could you please go away?

I'm so disappointed that I couldn't get back to Melbourne for the game against Greece but it was out of my control.

"I got over there and I couldn't run because the air was just horrible, " he said.

As I listened, I couldn't help but think of my own oldest daughter who was now beginning her first year in college, just like me.

Once again, I wondered what was wrong with me that I couldn't keep a father.

The janitor could reasonably respond by saying, "Well, the lock on the door was changed, and I couldn't get a key. "

Obviously I couldn't really ask the staff if this was a technical oversight or if it was left uncensored on purpose.

The children were making such a din that I couldn't study.

Shanika: I was trying to think of something that really, really shocked me, and I couldn't think of anything.

In my first attempt to hold my breath I couldn't even last a minute. So, I realized that was completely not going to work.

I couldn't imagine anything in the world that there was left to be afraid of, not physically at least.

And it was all my fault. I couldn't let this happen to him, even if he always does treat me like a sleazy bucket.

She was a strange sort of person; I couldn't make her out.

By the time she was through kissing me and talking to me, I was sure I didn't need any dogs at all, I couldn't stand to see Mama cry.

There was something I was waiting for, but I couldn't see it in all my years of inner searching.

I tried to rationalize what I had just seen, but I couldn't. We were in the middle of nowhere!

I couldn't get over the fact that Mom and my boyfriend were going to see this.

I couldn't help wondering: when you were a child, were they very strict with you?

But when I tried to leave the building, I couldn't find the stairway in the maze of dark rooms now littered with virtual corpses.

I was so full that I was ready to explode but I couldn't explain this to the crying women who thought I hated her food-so I ate!

As I read that, I couldn't help but think, God loves me dearly and waits for me to fellowship with Him. How many days do I forget Him?

Did you get a look at him at all? - It was dark. I couldn't see.

I had never heard or seen of anything like this. It was unbelievable. I couldn't imagine what could have caused anything.

The Twitter app let me write my own tweets, but I couldn't retweet or direct-message other users.

But from time to time, i couldn't helping thinking of the great life in Finland, and the lovely colleagues i met there as well.

I told him I couldn't think of any reason why antimatter wasn't a plausible explanation.

An old monk held my hand tightly and constantly grumbled something I couldn't understand. But I could read the earnest passion on his face.

A foreign client called to confirm his order, but I couldn't understand what he said.

There seemed to be many lush banyan trees, but I couldn't make out where the main trunks of the trees were.

I felt as though I was intruding on a private moment, but I couldn't take my eyes off the couple.

It made the bed so good to lie in that I couldn't bring myself to get out of it before 07. 30 unless I had to.

I was still trying to dislodge the stupid feeling of suspicion, and I couldn't concentrate.

me to go and beg with him, but I couldn't cheek it.

And I couldn't get Daddy and his confident deathbed prediction that I would win out of my mind.

I couldn't wait to be with him, even though I knew he had a wife.

By the time I got back, the screams had stopped. I peeked through Lefty's keyhole once again. I couldn't see Lefty anywhere in her room.

There was barely a page I couldn't imagine vividly, as if this were a movie.

You got way more out of that post than I did. I couldn't even manage a snore.

I realized I couldn't face another argument with Clara; I couldn't listen to her working up another one of her endless justifications.

For those (like me) who do not drink either Coca-Cola or Pepsi, this change was so subtle I couldn't tell until someone pointed it out.

When I thought of him, I couldn't help smiling.

She would have contacted my parents if I couldn't have come up with a good excuse.

I couldn't believe she was dead, and went from being confident and cocky to a very quiet child.

Joan: Maybe, but I couldn't work for you. You are too much of a jackal. I could never trust you.

There's this awkward space in the dining room between the two radiators that I couldn't figure out what to do with for quite a while.

"I couldn't find the positive thing, " she said of her sabbatical.

This time, by the light of the candle, I actually did see her smile, and I couldn't help returning the courtesy.

But I knew I couldn't trust him. There was always the possibility that he was a cheat.

I tried to get out of the cabin many times, but I couldn't find a way out.

I couldn't help it but to ask the waitress. . . she replied to me that she didn't have any men, only women.

Phoebe: Alright. I looked all over the building and I couldn't find the kitty anywhere.

I felt bad because I couldn't be with her more, as she was finishing her senior year and I was here at UP.

By teatime, as I sat watching Dumbo with the children, I realised that I couldn't really lift my head.

I was so excited I couldn't wait for her to open it.

I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw my car in front of the restaurant, which had been stolen two days before.

I asked if she was feeling better the next day, only to be told, "I couldn't get it in. "

Finding her a very agreeable woman, I couldn't understand why people talked evil of her.

I made some mistakes. I couldn't understand anything in restaurants and I couldn't read the bank letters or electricity and water bills.

At home I immediately set to installation, but I couldn't get APM or ACPI to run no matter what I tried.

My heart felt like it had been pricked by a pin. I couldn't help bursting into tears.

I couldn't even if I wanted to. My parents told me that if I went home, thenI'd have to find my own place.

First I thought the pain would l go away, but it grew stronger until to the point that I couldn't take it anymore.