Example sentences of "they could not [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them could not believe that they had found themselves in a church , and were only stopping off en route to a nearby pub . |
| 2 | If they could not exercise that power themselves , or count on the eastern empire to do it for them , then they would find it where they could . |
| 3 | The Primitive Methodists , whose work was mostly amongst working people , admitted with a sorrow they could not hide that ‘ the growing worldliness of men needs a faithful and independent ministry ; the increased educational facilities and the advance of science challenge us to put the best talent we can produce into the pulpit ’ . |
| 4 | He would wait a few days before having his hair cut , so that they could not think that they had made him . |
| 5 | They could not forget that the American government had already backed away from some of its more liberal inclinations on postwar world economic development in the face of various domestic pressure groups . |
| 6 | Experienced as these riders were , they could not believe that the drugs would make the captives docile . |
| 7 | They could not believe that large numbers of mammals would eventually be found in some of the earliest rocks . |
| 8 | If Churchill recommended Ramsey to the new young Queen who had never before been confronted with the situation , and the Queen asked the archbishops whether they objected , they could not say that they did . |
| 9 | Since , on principle , they could not say that lesbianism made them nervous and that the complex new demands made on them scared them , they found more underhand and aggressive ways of expressing their resentments . |
| 10 | And they were so contemptuous of the Nazis and their cohorts they could not imagine that they themselves featured in the minds and machinations of such louts . |
| 11 | She , in turn , wondered why they could not understand that she loved their father and had rescued him from a life of solitude . |
| 12 | They could not know that John and Angela were still not officially dead , no death certificate having been issued . |
| 13 | Seaside wear seemed inappropriate , yet they could not see that they had reason to mourn the passing of Sir Thomas Throgmorton . |