Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [pron] [vb mod] n't [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned around and stared at her with that insufferable thoroughness , which was downright rude , but about which she could n't complain . |
| 2 | So poor Willy was left in a situation where there was nobody to help him out with the f a full pool table for which he could n't get the key . |
| 3 | We tried to make suggestions for character developments , all of which they would n't allow . |
| 4 | A ten For the next hour I took delivery of many additional purchases , the vast majority of which I could n't remember purchasing . |
| 5 | So you were n't aware of what he could n't do , so much as what he could do and did do , and how little of it you could understand . |
| 6 | and it goes through their , for the rest of their twenties , the rest of their thirties and most of their forties and then suddenly bang maybe something ghastly seems to be happening which they are absolutely unaware of , you know , they do n't know why they are crying or , or er unable to cope with whatever they ca n't cope with and that 's it , that 's them off and they start worrying about er osteoporosis and you know an enormous number of , of now medically defined problems of the menopause , and they may start going on to all sorts of things like hormone replacement therapy or even primrose oil or whatever the hell and they 're sitting there at an age when they are fairly loaded up with experience and maturity and all the rest of it and they do n't know what they are doing . |
| 7 | We could sit in a meeting in the Sit(uation) Room and be discussing these other activities , and fall into almost a kind of , you know , warp in which you would n't know whether you were talking — I mean , the use of shorthand and so forth in the discussions you could n't tell whether we 'd suddenly slipped into this question of selling arms to get them back this way or whether we were still discussing the other thing . |
| 8 | My own belief , which is shared , oddly enough , by the head of the CIA , William Webster , is that sanctions would have eroded his military capacity so much that , given another nine months or so — assuming we has used that period for more flexible diplomacy , which we notably failed to do — then we could either have got him out by negotiation , or we could have promoted a situation inside Iraq in which he could n't fight . |
| 9 | The whole thing became an exercise in what you ca n't do , not what you can do . |
| 10 | It was n't only the money , but her library card , her family allowance book , the receipt from the repair shop without which she could n't get her watch back , creased photographs , with Edward 's own photograph among them , her address book , almost the whole sum of her identity . |
| 11 | Er again that 's a very specific question to which I ca n't give a specific answer . |
| 12 | Run from the ambitious young man who was her husband and who was bringing fear into her existence , a horrible fear to which she dare n't put a name and which had sprung into life a month ago . |
| 13 | There was no issue on which he would n't take one side or other and preferably the minority , or losing side . |
| 14 | I do n't pretend that this will be easy , because the power of your negative thoughts about what you ca n't achieve will be very strong . |
| 15 | Unless , like Chris Patten , she needed you for what she could n't do herself ( write a decent speech ) , any wet , however bright , was kippered on the back benches . |
| 16 | ‘ With other illustrators , I work at a distance — we visit and phone , but there is a point at which I ca n't pester them any more , ’ Allan says . |
| 17 | He did n't use to like ti , never , he was always terrified at what I would n't do next . |