Example sentences of "i could not [vb infin] [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm In fact a simple formulation of this problem occurs in the opening paragraphs of À la Recherche , erm when the narrator writes this : ‘ When I woke in the middle of the night , I could not tell where I was , just as I did not know at first who I was . |
| 2 | I could not explain how I felt other than very special . |
| 3 | One advantage of the appalling route was that it offered no temptation to diverge from it — since I could not see where I was going anyway , the only thing to do was to follow the compass , and I had waded ditches as I came to them instead of attempting to find easier crossing places . |
| 4 | We also have a number of collectors , one of whom I visited recently to discover a house so piled with neatly catalogued shoe boxes full of cards that I could not see how he and I might successfully get from the front door to the kitchen without a Sherpa . |
| 5 | So I could not see how I could get away . |
| 6 | I could not remember when I last had any authority over anyone . |
| 7 | I could not understand why they had been banished to this dusty attic . |
| 8 | ‘ As a nurse , I could not understand why she did not directly approach the hospitals concerned , for at that time I had little doubt that she would have received informed , prompt , honest replies . ’ |
| 9 | We were climbing away at a very gentle angle and I could not understand why I could not move the controls . |
| 10 | I could not understand why it was suggested I was a cheat . ’ |
| 11 | I could not understand how it had all happened so quickly . |
| 12 | I could not understand how it was that they were discussing so placidly Jean-Claude 's current compositional ideas for the ‘ Chansons de Mani ’ . |