Example sentences of "i could n't [verb] [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't stay where I was , it 's one of the rules . |
| 2 | ‘ No it 's not , ’ I said feebly , although I could n't think why it was n't . |
| 3 | Driving home , though , I could n't think why it was n't worse . |
| 4 | His look made me feel guilty , though I could n't think why it should . |
| 5 | He often teased his mother and I could n't think why he bothered , for she seldom responded . |
| 6 | I could n't think where you 'd been to . |
| 7 | I was just as mystified , but then , I could n't explain how I 'd been aware of her presence on our previous visit . |
| 8 | Because I could n't countenance how you could stay under water without being asphyxiated , and yet at the same time I was incapable of comprehending the trick . |
| 9 | I could n't remember why we had decided not to go there . |
| 10 | I could n't remember how we had got into this conversation . |
| 11 | It was so obvious I could n't imagine why I had n't seen it before . |
| 12 | This seemed to me so true that I could n't imagine why it was not universally acknowledged . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | blah , blah , blah , recommended that interview have been in both directions despite in this difficult across , and I could n't say when you could do that at midday , but the implication is you have to do it when you |
| 15 | I could n't say where he spent that evening , not for certain . |
| 16 | Well I 'm not researcher I could n't say how they do it but it 's done it was done from their recruitment and marketing sales . |
| 17 | apartments and I could n't believe how they they there there could work up such a system and I 'm serious , I I really mean this Mr Chairman , it is serious . |
| 18 | ‘ When I was allowed to go West again after 20 years , two years ago , I could n't believe how it had been transformed . |
| 19 | I could n't understand why they bothered to take him on , because he had n't won anything for years . |
| 20 | I could n't understand why I 'd not been killed when there were so many others who … |
| 21 | I could n't understand why I should want to leave the relative safety of the house in Fulham to walk into a hornets ' nest of horrified disapproval and rejection . |
| 22 | I could n't understand why he did this because his rebellious hair always sprang up like bristles on a brush and never stayed flat like Dad 's . |
| 23 | ‘ I could n't understand why he 'd given up a job he clearly loved to come back here . ’ |
| 24 | I could n't understand why she could n't share her diary . |
| 25 | ‘ I could n't understand why you never showed yourself when you were interrogating me . |
| 26 | You were so stubborn about it , you just kept saying everything was all right , and it was n't , it was getting worse all the time , and I could n't understand why you could n't see it . |
| 27 | I could n't understand why you did n't do that in the first place . |
| 28 | I could n't understand how I could possibly make the individual pine-needles knit ; it was like trying to carry grain in a net , or water in a cloth . |
| 29 | I could n't understand how she could give you up , do n't you see ? |
| 30 | Well I could n't see why he could n't ! |