Example sentences of "that we could not [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was so disgusting that we could not eat it , so we left the dining-room with empty stomachs . |
| 2 | I left knowing that we could not make anything together . |
| 3 | I learned then that we were but few , while the white men were many , and that we could not hold our own with them . |
| 4 | Fritz wanted to do something immediately about Black Michael and his men , but Sapt and I realized that we could not do anything openly . |
| 5 | ‘ We were told that we could not add anything to the pedestrian provision after the initial period . |
| 6 | That is true , but it does not issue in the conclusion that we do not ordinarily have and use the given conception of a causal circumstance , or that we could not use it in the confirmation of causal hypotheses . |