Example sentences of "could [not/n't] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the next few days I was horribly inactive , gripped by a lethargy that I could not for the life of me understand . |
| 2 | I said that it would be unkind and discourteous to decline a visit , but I could not for the life of me see how I could help him where persons of much greater power were impotent . |
| 3 | He could not for the life of him understand why they should wish to remain inside the cottage while the Domain was dusted with poisons . |
| 4 | Mahmoud , incoherent with fury , could not for the moment say what it was . |
| 5 | As I heard the words I knew they were wrong , but could n't for the life of me remember the dolmen 's proper name . |
| 6 | The Marshal could n't for the life of him remember that . |
| 7 | Because he could n't for the life of him imagine what he personally could have done to her . |
| 8 | That evening , I went to see King Lear at the Old Vic , but I was unable to shake off my self-pity and I could n't for the life of me see what the old git was moaning about . |
| 9 | You know , when I was bringing up my children in the early seventies I read about the the mergence of the new working woman , you know , how to balance a career and a home and children , and I could n't for the life of me think what was new about this working woman ! |
| 10 | Harris knew that something had happened but he could n't for the life of him think what it might be . |
| 11 | ‘ I could n't for the life of me remember the English name for this vehicle and certainly did n't know what the Russian name was , so I asked him what he would call it . ’ |
| 12 | I could n't for the life of me understand what Emily Lightbody might see in him , except an eternal good time . |
| 13 | Guy had always liked tall women , preferably those built on rather buxom lines , but right now he could n't for the life of him remember why . |
| 14 | and one of the girls who I was speaking to , oh I 'd like to do that , she could n't for the , the one that we 're doing |
| 15 | There had to be something she could say , something sharp and snappy , tailor-made to disabuse him of that idea , but was n't it just typical that she could n't for the life of her think what it was ? |