Example sentences of "could not [verb] [art] same " 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 Unfortunately he could not do the same at Newcastle in the FA Cup and , although he got leave of absence from school for the match , we were unable to prevent the Geordies from avenging their 1907 defeat .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 She regretted she could not say the same about his chest and general condition , and explained why in detail .
6 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 .
7 The break between ordinary and scientific knowledge seems to us so clear that these two types of knowledge could not have the same philosophy .
8 ‘ 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 .
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