Sentence examples similar to requested but could not from inspiring English sources

This meant that local librarians visiting Montgomery could get the book by requesting it, but could not find it on the open shelves.

The Frenchman replaced Frankie Dettori at Head-Maarek's request last week, but could not turn around the four-year-old's recent fortunes.

Mr. Stefan considered sending the body to Russia, as Mr. Tsarnaev's mother had requested, but he could not ensure that the authorities there would accept it.

They requested a meeting with the president, but could not get one.

The I.R.S. supplied dozens of reports by tax-exempt insurers at the request of The New York Times but could not find others in its own files.

A Vatican spokesman said the request was accepted with "great attention," but could not elaborate on the number of prisoners or whether any were in jail on political charges.

He requested some lighter fluid but couldn't bring himself to destroy the Strat and so swapped it secretly for a less valuable instrument.

The fund sold assets in June to raise money to meet redemption requests and margin calls, but couldn't raise enough cash to do so.

Many users of the site were instead confronted with an error page reporting that "the requested URL could not be retrieved".

In our study, for most comparisons between generic drugs, bioequivalence under only one of the requested conditions could not be demonstrated.

A user is defined to be dropped in two cases: (a) when the admission control does not admit the relay or user or (b) when the user is admitted but the requested data rate could not be served.