Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If the captives could not speak the same language , reasoned the slavers , they were unlikely to organize effective opposition . |
2 | He found , however , as he loped along , ostensibly to school , that he could not feel the same bitterness that he had done when he first started to write . |
3 | In his summing up Lord Griffiths said that if a family had lost its right to priority treatment through intentional homelessness , the parents could not achieve the same result ‘ through the back door ’ by applying in the name of a dependent child . |
4 | Hotspur watched the marred profile beside him curiously as they paced side by side , for he was greatly drawn to his prisoner , and could not reconcile the many stories concerning him with this man he had begun to know . |
5 | But he said the incidents were not being linked at this stage and he could not say the same people were responsible for each theft . |
6 | The break between ordinary and scientific knowledge seems to us so clear that these two types of knowledge could not have the same philosophy . |
7 | ‘ I never saw one thing she wanted that did not sell , ’ but nonetheless insisted that this undisciplined approach was unacceptable for a customer trying to furnish a house , who might have kept a sample for six weeks only to find she could not reorder the same fabric . |
8 | They just could n't give the same level of service . ’ |
9 | SINGER Paula Abdul , left , lost out when she could n't hit the same key as Frank Sinatra . |