Example sentences of "could not [verb] [adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously the old bookmakers pitches could not stay where they were and had to be moved . |
| 2 | She quoted to me an odd and illuminating point , that if he wanted to take a bath when he was with friends , he could not see why they should not all be in the bath together , boys and girls , black and white . |
| 3 | The authority to issue cattle vouchers enhanced the power and status of a headman , but many of those assigned to this task could not see why they should take the trouble to inquire into the origins of the cattle concerned . |
| 4 | Yeah yeah well you see what he said was he could not see how they could warrant him that sixty odd come as interest justify doing it . |
| 5 | Colonel John Sidney North , on the other hand , spoke for the majority of Punch enthusiasts in the House , and ‘ could not understand why they should be so mealy-mouthed about flogging a set of ruffians ’ , denouncing anyone who dissented from flogging as ‘ a wretched old woman for his lenity ’ . |
| 6 | I could not understand why they had been banished to this dusty attic . |
| 7 | If Protestants could not parade wherever they liked in Ulster , then the day was not far away when they would be sold into a united Ireland . |
| 8 | Yet somehow the galleries were open again and doing a brisk trade , and publishers could not remember when they had sold so many books . |
| 9 | He constantly came across people who adored his father and he could n't think why they did when he was such a silly little man who made such a fool of himself . |
| 10 | I could n't understand why they bothered to take him on , because he had n't won anything for years . |
| 11 | The parents did n't have any sympathy for people that joyrided , and they could n't understand why they did it . |
| 12 | He could n't understand why they were suddenly running over the sand . |
| 13 | But Adam could n't see why they should . |
| 14 | When the hatches were shut you could n't see where they were , but whenever the Thing was really interested in something it opened up and extended a small silver dish on a pole , or a complicated arrangement of pipes . |
| 15 | They could n't see how they could go wrong . |
| 16 | Could n't see how they do it all , and that 's it . |
| 17 | She was secretly distressed by the size of the house , for she could n't imagine how they were going to keep it up . |
| 18 | But a long time ago I was writing a television play about Irish men coming over to England to collect their brother 's body , and I could n't imagine how they 'd talk . |
| 19 | Er you er you 'd have two outside independents and you could n't say how they would be , but they would be elected by the whole te whole er Board of Trustees . |
| 20 | Well I 'm not researcher I could n't say how they do it but it 's done it was done from their recruitment and marketing sales . |
| 21 | But all the old miners I met , contemporaries of Orwell , remembered the arrival of the baths , thought they were wonderful , yet could n't remember how they came or who fought for them . |
| 22 | He could n't comprehend why they were there . |
| 23 | We could n't believe how they could have been allowed out of the site office . |
| 24 | apartments and I could n't believe how they they there there could work up such a system and I 'm serious , I I really mean this Mr Chairman , it is serious . |