Example sentences of "could not [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the politicians and civil servants could not agree that further expenditure on the development of broadcasting should be given priority : |
| 2 | They could not believe that large numbers of mammals would eventually be found in some of the earliest rocks . |
| 3 | She stood staring down at the fresh earth of the new grave , at the wooden cross bearing her mother 's name and she could not believe that this nightmare was real . |
| 4 | But she could n't lit that self-contained assurance and elegance with this lost and hopeless sobbing . |
| 5 | You could n't do that these days , the traffic 's too bad but we used to have wooden hoops or we 'd have er iron hoops . |
| 6 | You see , Toscanini was not a bad man ; he was so musically dedicated and disciplined himself that he simply could n't understand that some people can play a false note or play out of time . |
| 7 | He could n't say that this time cos he was i , he was erm , the guy in hospital . |
| 8 | I do n't know if anyone saw Football focus on Grandstand but I could n't believe that two loonies had tipped Sheff Wed over Leeds to win the Championship . |
| 9 | He could n't believe that those nobs in the West End were willing to pay good money for things that seemed to him to be nothing more than unnecessary luxuries . |