Sentence examples for couldn't at the from inspiring English sources

I told him to ride Shaamit [the 1996 winner trained by Piggott's son-in-law, William Haggas], but he couldn't at the time.

"You can understand things now that you couldn't at the time," says Washington psychiatrist Harvey L. Rich, author of "In the Moment". "We snicker at the young -- we say the problem with youth is that it's wasted on the young...

There were matching valences on my windows, and I had a wooden rolltop desk, with a drawer that locked and held my secrets, including dirty letters that I couldn't at the time translate from a German boy with whom I'd had a minor romance at summer music camp.

Or so we thought … Hill was meant to attend the Thursday night session for a frank exchange of views on how departments and No 10 could work more efficiently together but couldn't at the last minute, so we went ahead and had the session anyway.

This abundance of oxygen and carbon would have fueled microbes to degrade the charcoal and spheres, eliminating evidence for them higher up in a way that they couldn't at the core's base.

I recently spoke to Softkinetic's CEO Michel Tombroff about the upcoming deal, and though he couldn't at the time name the as-yet-unannounced partner, he was obviously brimming with enthusiasm for SKO's goal of getting affordable gesture recognition apps into homes across Europe and the US by the end of 2010.

"We could not at the time rule out the possibility that our relations with Libya might one day change.

That is to say that ISIS is capable of achieving what the Soviet Union could not at the height of the Cold War — the destruction of the United States.

But the painting is dismissed, partly on the grounds that the young Shakespeare could not at the time have afforded the sumptuous garb worn by the subject.

The writing, as one sees often in retrospect, was imperfect, but I could not at the time imagine how to improve it.

Why do you keep returning, alive, able to walk and gesture as you could not at the end, your movements sketchy, more holographic than warm?