Example sentences of "[that] i could not [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I said that I could not commit myself as my academic time was not yet finished , but I would like to be at their disposal later . ’ |
| 2 | I decided that I could not tell anybody . |
| 3 | I told the hon. Gentleman that I could not give him the information for which he asked until October , when the 1991 population figures would become available . |
| 4 | ( I should point out that I could not bring myself to a Japanese option ! ) |
| 5 | Before I knew where I was , I had been wagered a great deal of money that I could not do it , and shortly before midnight I was leaving the hallowed portals of Ronnie Scott 's Club . |
| 6 | When I finally roused myself and walked , unsteadily at first , to the green door and then through the other garden and the house , now silent — for our party had moved away and there was only a lady in an obviously twentieth century flowered smock at a little table in the hall — I felt the world was drained of colour and that I could not face anyone who was not Orlando . |
| 7 | ‘ I am sorry that I could not spare you . ’ |
| 8 | His fingers were bloody and in his eyes there was such despair that I could not stand it and went out into the filthy courtyard ’ . |
| 9 | Two days later , he brought me a charcoal drawing of her , very lightly done , a sort of dream-like impression and it was so like her , it captured the essence of her so minutely , that I could not believe he had never seen her , only listened to me . ’ |
| 10 | By the time he arrived in Tunis he was so ‘ affected by loneliness that I could not restrain my tears and wept bitterly . ’ |
| 11 | I was now certain that I could not see myself in any type of residential home in the future . |
| 12 | The mist was so thick that I could not see anything . |
| 13 | I am afraid that I could not find anything objectionable in his speech or in the regulations . |
| 14 | I have to say that I regret deeply , deeply that I could not persuade her to make a film of Tosca . |
| 15 | That I could not deceive them . |