Sentence examples for could not cheat from inspiring English sources

But even a man cut from such admirable cloth could not cheat the curse.

On Ren's education at the orphanage: "It had been decided that the brothers must give the children some knowledge; at the very least enough language to read the Bible, and enough arithmetic so that the Protestants could not cheat them.

Winner: Clare Balding For all that Young is obviously a thoroughly decent and sensitive soul who would not (indeed, could not) cheat on a woman who was carrying his child by copping off with "another model" ("the behaviour of an arsehole," says Rod, though that may not cut much ice with some), this is the equivalent of Stewart's Celtic taking on, say, Port Vale and crushing them.

But the Home Office said it was already bringing in measures to ensure foreign criminals could not "cheat justice".

Some changes were needed to the viewer code to allow for the suppression of sample details during the display so that users could not cheat by simply looking up the details of the material under study via the JCAMP-DX header.

"We couldn't cheat at all.

He even recruited a friend as a "verifier" to make sure he couldn't cheat the system.

Even when the camera wasn't on me, I gave it my all because I couldn't cheat Laurence".

And craftsmen couldn't cheat like the Egyptians – medieval guilds rules meant that dyers working with blue couldn't work with yellow too.

"Yes, you couldn't cheat on that idea," says Greengrass. "I remember looking at the poster for Ultimatum at Oxford Circus tube.

After about 20 minutes of super-slow leg lifts, arm lifts, chin-ups, wall squats, push-ups and situps — which I couldn't cheat my way through — I forgot everything I had ever learned about anything.