Example sentences of "could not [verb] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | there were pressures coming on the company which would mean that we could not continue to do that |
| 2 | One could not fail to understand that . |
| 3 | I could not bear to touch that part of the body . |
| 4 | The defendant had argued that this information , ie the knowledge that the combination of the two ingredients produced an effective drier could not be protected by an injunction since the knowledge of that combination was knowledge which the second defendant must inevitably have taken away from the plaintiffs when he left their employment and that he could not proceed to expunge that knowledge from his mind . |
| 5 | Any amendment to the law that provides an aggravated penalty for someone who could not have foreseen that for which he is sentenced must be wrong . |
| 6 | He insisted : ‘ I could not have made that statement . |
| 7 | It would have appeared to be charity and she could not have borne that . |
| 8 | The man sitting before me could not have forgotten that ; he just chose to ignore it . |
| 9 | In a matter as fundamental as that of the constitution of the church , God could not have allowed that error should have persisted over such a period of time . |
| 10 | ‘ I could not have allowed that . ’ |