Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh adv] he could not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He settled into the new way of life and rarely thought about Manchester , a place where he could not recollect the sun ever shining . |
| 2 | Then he came to a place where he could not push between two heavy warren bucks . |
| 3 | He watched his tears drip onto the floor and wondered from a great distance why he could not feel them running down his face . |
| 4 | His attention settled on the ducks on the lake but whenever he got near they fled in panic to the shore and sheltered under bushes and trees where he could not reach them . |
| 5 | He raised the stakes when he could not win . |
| 6 | She took the breast well and slept at night without the drops of laudanum with which the nurse had dosed the infant Benjamin when he could not sleep . |
| 7 | And , and that 's the only reason why he wanted her there , that 's the only reason why he could not accept her as a friend or an , as a companion . |
| 8 | She had been so pleasant since Donald 's death that there were times when he could not believe that he was planning to murder her . |
| 9 | The nights when he could not sleep had been the worst , when the dark thoughts of despair and depression came creeping into the mind . |
| 10 | He stressed that he had relinquished his deferment after only two months , thereby allowing his name to go back into the draft pool at a time when he could not have known that the draft would be shortly replaced by a lottery system . |