Example sentences of "[conj] we could [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we could n't tell them that we 're trying to achieve because we have n't we have n't discussed |
| 2 | Although we could n't speak the language , there were enough ‘ … issimos ’ attached to the adjectives to give a good idea of what the locals thought of the route , and the frequent appearance of numbers like VIII , VII+ , A4 and A3 on the topo seemed more in keeping with our previous experience than the more modest gradings given by Ron James . |
| 3 | Control of body roll is good , although we could n't see the advantage of manually selecting the sport setting when the suspension firms things up automatically at higher speeds . |
| 4 | ‘ It went on for about an hour , and although we could n't see anything we could feel what was happening to them . |
| 5 | Although we could not confirm this finding statistically , none of the small number of our patients aged less than 50 ( n=18 ) who was treated with ursodeoxycholic acid , developed recurrence . |
| 6 | Although we could not determine the sensitivity of thyroglobulin , the specificity of about 100% agrees with previous results . |
| 7 | A spokesman for BNFL said : ‘ We were not playing on fears , just presenting the facts , although we could not address all the issues in one advertisment . ’ |
| 8 | Although we could not remove all homophones , we could treat differently certain classes of words which are frequently accessed erroneously . |
| 9 | Well they might be a friendly , oh I do n't really know but er he 's so busy you see and he 's busy all kinds of day and night , now then , we asked him a while ago to be more careful when he was switching on the freezer units at night because they were waking people up , we asked him er a while ago if he 'd be more careful learning up at six o'clock in the morning because the chain and that we could n't sleep in the morning like , and all disturbing us all like that |
| 10 | ‘ Our first-half performance was disappointing in that we could n't hold the ball up front . |
| 11 | One lad with us , a genuine Cockney , finished up by explaining to this ( probably normally ) mild-mannered Italian who spoke no English at all that we could n't pay because we were ‘ borassic ’ . |
| 12 | The problem is , of course , that we could n't assemble that many monkeys . |
| 13 | We know that we could n't earn our salvation , we know that we do n't deserve , that we know that we could n't merit it . |
| 14 | Even if we found one example that we could n't explain , we should hesitate to draw any grandiose conclusions from the fact of our own inability . |
| 15 | I mean , it is n't as though we have to operate a policy in which we heavily advertise the availability of grants , it , it can develop via word of mouth , if we advertise anything , we would be inundated with demand for to a level that we could n't cope with . |
| 16 | We were adamant from the beginning that we could n't retain the breadth of the remit if we did n't have some security of income.1 That we would enable us to resist the temptation , either from shareholders or advertisers , to turn the channel into a sort of a yuppie channel . |
| 17 | He said ‘ No , sorry ’ , to which we replied that we could n't continue to play or back David if we were n't going to get any money . |
| 18 | No , no , that would n't worry me , I just , I said when we got rid of our other sideboard let's do without one and then I looked round and thought well what the dickens am I going to do with all this stuff that we 've got and I just found that we could n't do without it . |
| 19 | And the result was of course that we could n't build the centre of the town . |
| 20 | Tim and Lynne Littler caught up with us at this point and with little resistance from our party , insisted that we could n't leave Paris without a light lunch . |
| 21 | ‘ Great , ’ he reiterated , ‘ sampled a bit of the local night-life , lost a few francs at the gambling tables , and then found that we could n't drag ourselves away from each other , so we spent the night in a hotel . ’ |
| 22 | They hid the grave so that we could n't give the bodies a proper burial . |
| 23 | I , I do n't think I ever said that we could n't go ahead with it this year , I merely pointed out , I merely |
| 24 | to say that we could n't go all er go er tt all go to her house and I was just about to ask Sam if Jenny knew and she put the phone down and she had n't told Jenny . |
| 25 | We I remember once , my first skiing trip , there was a really heavy blizzard one night and it was s the snow got so deep that we could n't open any doors , we were snowed in , yeah ? |
| 26 | Yeah er you know , we had an understanding that if erm because there were times when we wanted to just have some time together , or to pray together , and erm you know people who did come in and out to the flats , we erm told them that if th we were in and we did n't answer the door , it was actually because we were either doing something that we could n't come . |
| 27 | Yes , in fact we shall be going again this week , and I have no doubt , once again this week , we , we 'll be overlapping into another bay , but er unless we use the coach car park , er which means that we could n't take children who were n't really able walkers , so in fact we would be discriminating against our own children , er I really ca n't see what else we can do . |
| 28 | In the words of chairman Arthur Walsh , ‘ We have tried to present an organisation we can understand , that we could n't understand before . ’ |
| 29 | This would mean that we could n't predict anything . |
| 30 | As ever , time constraints meant that we could n't try absolutely everything , and so the Bass Centre 's manager Martin Gravestock agreed to guide us through the popular models within our categories , and we chose random examples from there . |