Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [verb] what it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ask it to do more than it can and it may not do what it should . |
| 2 | Something about it was slightly different today , but he could not decide what it was |
| 3 | There was something wrong about her scheme but she could not clarify what it was . |
| 4 | I could not think what it was that could be for me and yet so heavy . |
| 5 | Rain could not think what it was Fitzgerald had done that Sabine Jourdain later copied , but regardless of that she spurred him on : ‘ Yes . ’ |
| 6 | The household unit of production , though headed by male weaver or other out-worker , was not governed by the object of accumulating a monetary surplus : " It could not maximise what it could not measure . " |
| 7 | i.7.12 ) that ‘ it would be monstrous if the people could not do what it wanted ’ . |
| 8 | He was sure that the girl had something to hide , something that was embarrassing rather than incriminating , but he could not imagine what it was . |
| 9 | In the shadow between the houses Owen could not see what it was but when they came up to it he saw that it was a man . |
| 10 | She said something — Emmie could not hear what it was . |
| 11 | Maisie was screaming something , but he could not hear what it was . |
| 12 | It was as if he was looking for something so ill-defined , so vaguely comprehended that even he could not say what it was . |
| 13 | The right hemisphere of his brain could not articulate what it registered . |
| 14 | Robert 's real worry was that he could not understand what it was that had caused offence . |
| 15 | All the same , he had a feeling of guilt as if he had been accused of something in the middle of a bad dream and , waking , could not remember what it was . |
| 16 | Something about it was slightly different today , but he could n't decide what it was . |
| 17 | He shouted something , though he could n't tell what it was . |
| 18 | And they , then the other ones er there was one with General Motors and it was a , a huge thing , you were ten , it was a huge building , modern building but you just could n't tell what it was from the outside . |
| 19 | There was something about it that seemed different , but he could n't tell what it was . |
| 20 | No doubt there was an answer to that , too , but he could n't think what it was . |
| 21 | No real reason , I just could n't remember and it was er annoying me cos I could n't think what it was . |
| 22 | and she could n't think what it was and she got a as well , she says er have you eaten any fruit or tomatoes or any , oh she said tomatoes she says did you wash them ? |
| 23 | I could n't think what it was and me erm |
| 24 | But the gabble was such that the child could n't distinguish what it was they wanted , until the old woman cried , ‘ No candy rock today ! 'T IS all gone , all gone , ’ at which , one after the other , the children , as if at a signal , stopped gabbling and took up the chant : ‘ Raggie Aggie ! |
| 25 | ‘ I could n't understand what it had to do with the law . |
| 26 | I know it 's very stupid of me , but I could n't understand what it was supposed to be about at all . |
| 27 | There was just something about Luke Calder that seemed to affect her , although for the life of her she could n't understand what it was . |
| 28 | And they started that and they were sent out to this big villa and er that was the first time I had seen a continental headboard and er we could n't understand what it was you know . |
| 29 | The Director could n't ask what it was , not without implicating himself if it went wrong . |
| 30 | The track felt soft and slithery but in the dark she could n't see what it was she was stepping on . |