Example sentences of "i [vb mod] n't imagine [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was so obvious I could n't imagine why I had n't seen it before . |
| 2 | This seemed to me so true that I could n't imagine why it was not universally acknowledged . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | To quieten her , to get away from the dark , lurking forest of the past , she said , ‘ I 'll get you a drink , though for the life of me I ca n't imagine why you are cold . |
| 5 | But then I ca n't imagine why you took such a risk with Sam 's life in the first place . ’ |
| 6 | I ca n't imagine why you do n't leave it till tomorrow . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I ca n't imagine why you wanted to come here , ’ she said , staring at the milling crowds of people with distaste . |
| 8 | I ca n't imagine why you 're refusing to acknowledge it , but there 's no denying you must have been there . ’ |
| 9 | Yes , just listen , I ca n't imagine why you misunderstood what I was trying to say . |
| 10 | My father taught me to shoot , I ca n't imagine why he did n't teach me to drive . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't imagine how they 'd manage with the zimmer , although there 's probably a whole magazine in the library devoted to obscene things you can do with disability aids . ’ |
| 12 | I ca n't imagine how we would have reacted if our teacher had identified herself as a practising heterosexual and shared the secrets of her lifestyle . |
| 13 | I ca n't imagine how we all put up with living here . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Then I ca n't imagine how you did think it would be . |
| 15 | " I ca n't imagine how you can be so ungrateful , child , " she said between coughing fits . |
| 16 | Chairman , I ca n't imagine how you could possibly contemplate that . |
| 17 | I ca n't imagine how I would have survived without good friends who sustained me when I turned up weeping in the middle of the night . |
| 18 | Now that I 've seen his photograph and read his prose style , I ca n't imagine how he and Serafin ever contrived to live together . |