Example sentences of "he [vb mod] not [vb infin] [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could not tell why he was fascinated with this girl . |
| 2 | After she 'd attended to Lucien 's wound , which was hurting so much he could not tell when she was touching it , she lit a bowl of tamara weed and other herbs to induce sleep . |
| 3 | He could not explain why he ran or why he and David abandoned a car a few minutes later a mile from the town centre . |
| 4 | A KUWAITI official questioned over the disappearance of £1 billion of public money said he could not recall where it had gone . |
| 5 | Sometimes , he really wanted to abandon her , yet looking at her now he could not imagine why he ever felt that way . |
| 6 | Being a man , he could not understand why she should sound so doubtful . |
| 7 | He said a suggestion that he was a criminal overlord in Glasgow was nonsense and that he could not understand why he had a reputation as the godfather . |
| 8 | He said he had always known politics was a dirty game and he could not understand how I could endure it . |
| 9 | She quoted to me an odd and illuminating point , that if he wanted to take a bath when he was with friends , he could not see why they should not all be in the bath together , boys and girls , black and white . |
| 10 | Yeah yeah well you see what he said was he could not see how they could warrant him that sixty odd come as interest justify doing it . |
| 11 | However , while the views of my right hon. Friend the Member for Ashton-under-Lyne ( Mr. Sheldon ) on Europe have not always been similar to mine , I was pleased to hear him say that he could not see how it was possible for 12 Finance Ministers in ECOFIN — about which we hear a great deal these days — to control a European central bank established on the model set out in the present draft treaty prepared by the Dutch Government . |
| 12 | He could not remember when he had felt as purely happy . |
| 13 | He floundered in panic as , for a brief moment , he could not remember why he was there . |
| 14 | Sometimes an opportunity is so obvious to the person who has thought of it that he can not imagine how it is not equally obvious to everyone else . |
| 15 | He can not imagine how he got here , with his son with … and a whole plane full of … and some fat spiv in a green tie next to him . |
| 16 | He can not say where he is going or why he has to leave , except to admit : |