Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [vb infin] [Wh adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not forget how the village people had hurt me when I tried to go into the house there . |
| 2 | Branches and limbs and hair and eyes all jumbled and mixed , so that you could not tell where the Tree part ended and the naiad part began . |
| 3 | But as time went on he realised he could not convey how the style had evolved without understanding the techniques at first hand . |
| 4 | He said he could not explain why the iceberg was moving west and not east ‘ as everyone had anticipated ’ . |
| 5 | The local Joint Working Party could not explain why the post had been graded by the National Joint Council 's Assimilation Panel on two occasions . |
| 6 | The girl could not explain how the locket came to be among her clothes , and it was clear that her protestations of innocence were in vain . |
| 7 | Hall said that he could not see why the first and second prize-winners had been passed over , as a Gothic building would have nothing in common with the nearby Treasury Chambers and Whitehall . |
| 8 | CIMA suggested that the proposals should be included in Cadbury 's code of best practice , while Coopers & Lybrand thought that a Stock Exchange requirement would not work and added that ‘ it could not see why the OFR could not in principle be a Financial Reporting Standard ’ . |
| 9 | In fairness , the bank manager would concede , he could not see where the poor fellow could make another economy and continue to live a half-way acceptable life . |
| 10 | It would mean that science alone could not predict how the universe began . |
| 11 | This would mean that science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning , but that it could not predict how the universe should begin : For that , one would have to appeal to God . |
| 12 | I realized I would get no help from the Treasury and , indeed , I suspected that they could not understand why the department was wasting its time on this issue at all . |
| 13 | He was completely dumbfounded by the whole incident and could not understand why the rocks had fallen on his cottage . |
| 14 | I could not understand why the door had been locked . |
| 15 | When I visited the School of Mathematics , I could not understand why the students looked so unhappy . |
| 16 | Tess could not see his face , and could not understand why the head-dairyman himself should call him sir . |
| 17 | Tess did not tell Marian everything , so Marian could not understand why the couple were apart . |
| 18 | I was about to say that , looking back at his record , I could not understand why the Home Secretary wanted to relive his time as Conservative party chairman , because that was hardly his finest hour . |
| 19 | Or perhaps he could not understand why the boy , though pinned like the serpent in Saint Patrick 's cleft stick with no chance of escape , grew more and more cheerful each day . |
| 20 | In a faint and rasping voice , at times straining to make himself heard , Mr McTear told reporters that he could not understand why the Government had permitted cigarettes to be sold . |
| 21 | Mungo could not understand how the price constantly rose while no one seemed to bid . |
| 22 | Immediately a great roar of applause broke out , and Gurney looked at the audience , and this time his self-satisfied smirk seemed to be so obvious , to George at any rate , that he could not understand how the audience too could fail to see it . |
| 23 | In the ‘ He had green parakeets ’ opening she could not understand how the bird would get into the cage with his wings spread . |
| 24 | He could not understand how the hrududu could move so quickly and smoothly through the fields . |
| 25 | He could not understand how the West could have allowed it all to take place . |
| 26 | Thirdly , something James could not know when the season began , 1976 was going to be one of the most contentious seasons , politically and administratively , that I have ever known in the sport , and there were several times in the year when it really looked as though the fates were conspiring to make it impossible for Hunt to win . |
| 27 | She could n't explain why the nurse had attacked her . |
| 28 | He could n't tell when the singing came to an end , or the Archbishop 's voice was first raised , addressing the city ; offering it God 's peace and succour so long as the Feast of Christ lasted . |
| 29 | Merely by shutting his door if it was open , North would add to the intrigue of meetings : ‘ and when the meeting was over , I still could n't understand why the door was shut and what the intrigue was ’ said a visiting official , puzzled ; ‘ it was in my mind 's eye a social call . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I could n't understand why the kidnappers should wear old uniforms , old clothes and costumes from the past , ’ Myeloski had said . |