Example sentences of "[be] that i could not " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The thing is that I could n't cancel the draft — it cost £6.50 to get it , and would have cost another £12.00 to get it annulled . |
| 3 | ‘ The truth is that I could n't believe it . |
| 4 | And my answer always was that I could not expect too much when I expected nothing at all for I never thought that anyone whom I could love , would stoop to love ME . |
| 5 | My problem was that I could not sleep during the day . |
| 6 | The problem was that I could not be sure if this was your true feeling for me , or just your terror of Mathilde 's ghosts making you cling to me in that delightful and extremely inflammatory fashion . |
| 7 | The problem was that I could not get a response from anybody in the Department . |
| 8 | One thing I can remember about that evening was that I could n't eat anything . |
| 9 | Perhaps I could have freeclimbed it , but the problem was that I could n't predict the pockets and I would n't have found out until it was too late to avoid a monster fall . |
| 10 | I think the worst thing was that I could n't stop shaking . |
| 11 | I suppose the most annoying thing was that I could n't stop saying ‘ sorry ’ all the time . |