Example sentences of "he could not [vb infin] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The only thing he could n't do was to look longingly innocent . |
| 2 | The one thing he could n't do was sell or get rid of them . |
| 3 | What he could n't understand was , if Tammuz was Ewan , as he suspected , why he had kept away from the girl . |
| 4 | He says I 'd better go and check the money so he said erm but what he could n't understand was they wrote to him and said that they have n't paid the cheques but they did n't say anything about freezing his account ! |
| 5 | And for a moment he was afraid that the huge grin he could not control was going to stretch his face permanently out of shape . |
| 6 | This Edouard knew : what he could not understand was that in the years since the end of the war Jean-Paul had made no attempt to restore the house . |
| 7 | What he could not see was the restless , self-centred consumerism it would produce . |
| 8 | What he could not foresee was that generals would renew their political role after 1814 , not as representatives of the old order , but as liberal paladins . |