Sentence examples for could not suppose from inspiring English sources

Being the man he was, Henry could not suppose the fault to be his.

Therefore, I could not suppose that the SS or the policy of the Reich Government was directed toward war.

Thus if the metaphor were a literal truth, like "Sydney is a warm city" or "No man is an island," the literal truth would be so obvious in the circumstances that one could not suppose the author to have intended to communicate that truth, and one would be induced to look for another, metaphorical content. 2 That was a mistake.

Therefore, if monism is correct, there would be no way of knowing this or anything else we could not even suppose it, except by a fluke.

I suppose she couldn't think of anybody else".

(Incidentally, London has far more social housing than elsewhere in Britain, so his attack on people with cable TV packages living in council housing is particularly absurd).But then I suppose he couldn't say that in a newspaper column.

He slew Marsyas, one of his captains whom he had preferred to a considerable command, for dreaming that he killed him: without some previous waking thought and purpose of the kind, he could not, he supposed, have had that fancy in his sleep.

I just couldn't imagine what I was supposed to be repenting for now, except the noble intention of making up to my children for our last fiasco of a vacation.

"I couldn't do the first step I couldn't say what you were supposed to say and mean it".

As I lay there on the couch, zoned out from painkillers, I kept asking myself how this could have happened: I was not supposed to have another miscarriage.

A flaw in my local hospital security meant I could open doors I was not supposed to: My father was ill in our local general hospital.