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Example sentences for "could not help being"

  • Miss Glanville only bowed her head in answer to this request, giving her brother at the same time a significant leer; who, though used to Arabella's particularities, could not help being a little confounded at the heroic speech she had made.

  • Incensed as he was against the brutal disposition of his own father's son, he could not help being moved at the integrity and tenderness of his sister, of whose inclinations towards him he had been hitherto kept in ignorance.

  • I could not help being pleased to see how much of the child was left in her, after all the drudgery she had been through.

  • Although Possano was a liar and an ungrateful, treacherous hound, yet I could not help being uneasy.

  • I could not help being amused at his awkwardness, but I had not yet seen the best part of the comedy.

  • I could not help being amused at such a novel mode of invitation, and I accepted it.

  • At that moment Mrs. Lethbridge entered, and I could not help being struck by her appearance.

  • Nevertheless, I could not help being gladdened by her faith.

  • I could not help being convinced, too, that the old woman, in her simple way, had spoken the truth.

  • Even then I could not help being impressed by the young fellow's behavior, nor, for that matter, by his general appearance.

  • The justice chamber was very full as he entered it, and he could not help being impressed by the scene before him.

  • Even the judge, who looked at him with keen, penetrating eyes, could not help being impressed by the fact.

  • Many a one in the town had remarked what a handsome woman Paul Stepaside's mother was, and she, although she professed to care nothing for her appearance, could not help being pleased.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    could afford; could bring; could command; could count; could devise; could earn; could feel; could gather; could hardly; could learn; could mean; could not; could not have been; could not help thinking; could possibly; could procure; could produce misleading results; could rise; could say; could show; could sleep; could stay; could stop; could venture; solemn promise; stew them