Example sentences of "could not [vb infin] why the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he could not explain why the iceberg was moving west and not east ‘ as everyone had anticipated ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He was completely dumbfounded by the whole incident and could not understand why the rocks had fallen on his cottage . |
| 7 | I could not understand why the door had been locked . |
| 8 | When I visited the School of Mathematics , I could not understand why the students looked so unhappy . |
| 9 | Tess could not see his face , and could not understand why the head-dairyman himself should call him sir . |
| 10 | Tess did not tell Marian everything , so Marian could not understand why the couple were apart . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She could n't explain why the nurse had attacked her . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I could n't understand why the kidnappers should wear old uniforms , old clothes and costumes from the past , ’ Myeloski had said . |
| 17 | But his thoughts were elsewhere , as he still could n't understand why the Academy would send anyone down to this class D planet . |
| 18 | She could n't understand why the woman 's husband had brought her on to this hazardous planet . |
| 19 | It said it could n't understand why the British Amateur Weight Lifter 's Association had reached the decision not to take action against the two weighlifters . |
| 20 | ‘ I could n't understand why the front door would not open and this young fellow appeared and asked if I wanted any help . |
| 21 | I could n't see why the man kept it in the shop if it was n't for sale . |