Example sentences of "that [pers pn] could not [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to be nice about it , but it was fairly obvious he did n't want me any more ; and truthfully , I did n't want him any more either , except in so far that I could n't bear that it should all have been for nothing — worse than nothing . |
| 2 | I put the seed of doubt into Steve 's mind about the fact that I could not say that er bearings could be guaranteed P five at that price . |
| 3 | But when I did so , the words I uttered for the record were that I could not accept that the proper constitutional practices , as I understood them , were being observed . |
| 4 | I told the Cabinet that I could not accept that the traditional basis for collective responsibility had been established . |
| 5 | The tragedy of her life was that she could n't accept that she 'd never be you . ’ |
| 6 | She saw it was herself , there on the canvas ; in fact it was so much herself that she could not believe that she could be both people , one here on the studio floor and one sitting there clasping her knees , her eyes lost in faraway visions , her white feet on wet black rocks against which little waves were breaking in plumes of spray . |
| 7 | that you could n't tell that this was this |
| 8 | He was noticing everything , the way the light played on a broken brick in the wall opposite and sometimes it looked hollow and sometimes it looked a bulge , which proved that you could n't say that what you saw , however carefully , scientifically , you analysed it , was a scientific fact . |
| 9 | Safi was obviously excited by something , but his usual bonhomie was so much in evidence that we could n't imagine that he knew of anything ghastly in the offing . |
| 10 | He would wait a few days before having his hair cut , so that they could not think that they had made him . |
| 11 | A European Commission statement issued on Oct. 8 on behalf of the European Communities ( EC ) warned that this extension of the existing 30-year US embargo " had the potential to cause grave damage to the transatlantic relationship " , adding that it could not accept that " the USA unilaterally determines and restricts EC economic and commercial relations with any foreign nation which has not been designated by the UN as a threat to peace or order " . |
| 12 | He added that he could not agree that the prizes were liberal . |
| 13 | Grieving father Garry Tomlins said at his Cork home that he could not accept that his children 's deaths were a ‘ freak , million-to-one ’ accident . |
| 14 | Sadat was shocked ; later he told his wife that he could not believe that the Shah would have allowed any foreign power such influence over his country 's affairs . |
| 15 | He still could n't entirely believe it , In the sense that he could not believe that it was happening to him , that he was so vulnerable to such a common , almost hackneyed feeling . |
| 16 | Just a fortnight ago , on 14 November , Councillor Mike Hastie , who is the Tory leader on Aberdeen district council , was reported as saying that he could not believe that the Government would now push through the measures . |
| 17 | He said that he could not believe that it should be easier to challenge a reasoned award issued by an expert than a reasoned award issued by an arbitrator . |
| 18 | Meredith was amazed that he could n't see that the old key would never stand up to the pressure he was putting on it . |