Example sentences of "why [pron] could not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within seconds the blood from the gash that once been the left side of my head had poured all over the side of my face and filled up my left eye ; so that was why I could not see . |
| 2 | If the driver had seen that I was hurt , he would have stopped , and I was not up to explaining why I could not accept a lift . |
| 3 | There was more than one reason why I could not accompany Jean-Claude to America . |
| 4 | I did not have the skill to formulate sound arguments to counteract his taste for lawlessness , and explain why I could not partake in it . |
| 5 | We were climbing away at a very gentle angle and I could not understand why I could not move the controls . |
| 6 | One day when we were vacationing in Santa Fe in 1943 my daughter , Jennifer , who was then 3 , asked me why she could not see the picture I had just taken of her . |
| 7 | That was why she could not , must not , give up on the boy . |
| 8 | She explained to Dexter why she could not talk about the Mills case at work . |
| 9 | Tory Dame Jill Knight said : ‘ Constitutionally there is no reason why you could not have two people crowned who are separated . |
| 10 | Counsel for the appellants had attacked this finding because the patient had been an outpatient at a different hospital in the past and a practitioner there could have fulfilled this function ; and he submitted that in any case it was a duty of the hospital managers to find out if it was practicable to obtain the recommendation of a practitioner who had previous acquaintance with the patient : he relied on the form of the question ‘ explain why you could not get a recommendation from a medical practitioner who did know the patient ’ on the hospital admission application form . |
| 11 | Marguerite 's rush of words almost drowned out Alain 's harsh intake of breath , but he said nothing at all as Marguerite went on , ‘ Now I know why you could not stay longer . |
| 12 | They got us off and the bus disappeared , but there was still a reason why we could not board — they never let on what it was — — and we stood on the tarmac for a long time before being herded to the back entrance . |
| 13 | Eventually , about six weeks after joining , Jane was indiscreet enough to ask why they could not use English writers , and promptly got the sack . |
| 14 | A typical Feiffer couple , solemnly offering each other elaborate explanations of why they could not hit it off , are asking in their thought balloons why the other partner ca n't , for Pete 's sake , make a straight pass . |
| 15 | If a friend gave you this list of reasons why they could not love themselves , what would you say ? |
| 16 | Once or twice she re-issued her invitation to the Carrows to visit them at Four Winds , but it seemed that there were always perfectly valid reasons why they could not accept . |
| 17 | She , in turn , wondered why they could not understand that she loved their father and had rescued him from a life of solitude . |
| 18 | There were considered theological reasons , based on what was believed to be the case about the biological relationship of woman and man , as to why they could not be . |
| 19 | And while nobody wanted precisely to abandon the Fidchell which everybody enjoyed so much , there was really no reason why they could not play it with the Gnomes tonight and save Fenella for tomorrow , or even the day after . |
| 20 | They were then asked why they could not raise the money by staying at home and working on the land . |
| 21 | Mr Michael Grade , the channel 's chief executive , yesterday called on the Government to explain why it could not trust ITC appointments . |
| 22 | Ministers once again ducked the question of recognising Macedonia , even though Lord Carrington is believed to have said there was no practical reason why it could not go ahead . |
| 23 | While Adorno confines this category to ‘ serious ’ music , Paddison points out that there seems no reason why it could not include a good deal of avant-garde jazz and such rock groups as Frank Zappa 's Mothers of Invention the Velvet Underground , and — he might have added — some post-punk bands . |
| 24 | The big question was why it could not have been called something else altogether : Great North Large Tract of Land , for example . |
| 25 | ‘ I was talking to him this morning , ’ Richard said again , wondering why he could not control his shivering . |
| 26 | ‘ I was in the war , ’ the poppy-seller at Charing Cross said , to explain why he could not go along with the media insistence that this was a good news story . |
| 27 | She asked him why he could not leave her alone , in view of what the other man had already done to her , but he turned off the lights and told her to undress . |
| 28 | When asked why he could not enter , the guard replied , ‘ Oh , you can by dropping something in the box ’ . |
| 29 | She had asked why he could not put Beth firmly in the past . |
| 30 | The man on the floor was staggering to his feet and Connor understood why he could not defend himself — he was half starved . |