Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh adv] he [modal v] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | How dare she , he seemed to be saying with each rip of a page , how dare she enjoy reading books when he could n't ? |
| 2 | He hates days when he ca n't get straight into his workshop . |
| 3 | Perkin had always been presumed to be busy in his workshop , and yet there were hours and days when he might not have been , when Mackie was out of the house seeing to the horses . |
| 4 | Although he was hitting the ball all over the place in practice , Seve was figuring out which side of the fairways to miss on a lot of holes , and places where he could n't go at all . |
| 5 | He used it whereever he could and in some places where he should n't like in the rainwater system . |
| 6 | The woman dropped the credits where he could n't catch them ; the thin plastic chips feathered down through the air and Mijnheer scrabbled after them , his dignity in shreds . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He raised the stakes when he could not win . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I think Mr. Mendez wanted to get him on his way before he had time to change his mind ; before he spent another night staring at the ceiling and counting all the reasons why he should n't go to Contention . |
| 11 | The nights when he could not sleep had been the worst , when the dark thoughts of despair and depression came creeping into the mind . |