Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] not [verb] [Wh adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not understand why they had been banished to this dusty attic . |
| 2 | ‘ I can well understand the feelings of the minority , but I can not understand why they 're offended , ’ said Mr Sliudikas , another district secretary in the capital . |
| 3 | I can not see how they could be established in British literary education , where there are no graduate schools as such , and the narrow , uphill tunnel of A-level work leads on to the rocky , cloudy uplands of the undergraduate degree , with its confused mixture of practical criticism and thematic study , analysis and literary history , coverage and special subjects . |
| 4 | ‘ I can not see how they are going to pay all of us from membership dues , ’ an embittered party bureaucrat said at headquarters , adding that most of them would have to be given six months ' notice . |
| 5 | The words ‘ in connection with ’ have the widest connotation and I can not see how they are to be restricted in the absence of some context permitting such restriction . |
| 6 | They have information about daugh about my daughter which I do not , I can not imagine how they have obtained it , I am absolutely appalled . |
| 7 | Analysts also believe that the majority of the those people who would not disclose how they were going to vote were more likely to be Conservative than Labour . |
| 8 | AN ENGINEER with an American drug company has invented a high technology aid for people who can not remember when they last took their medicines . |
| 9 | Anywhere the road is wide enough , they are congregating so we can not anticipate where they will be . |
| 10 | We know they are different — if they were identical we would not need to consult the doctor for purposes other than access to resources — but we can not understand why they differ in these particular ways . |
| 11 | An airline spokesman said : ‘ We can not say where they went to . |
| 12 | When the other person is an unknown commodity and we can not predict how they will react , the greater is our requirement for the armour of indirectness . |
| 13 | They may not recognise when they are in danger , for example when crossing a busy road , or they may not know how to carry out even the most basic safety precautions necessary for the prevention of fire , accidents and infection . |
| 14 | The mothers were asked to avoid cow 's milk , and were then challenged with it in a disguised form , so that they would not know when they were drinking milk and when they were drinking the ‘ control ’ substance . |
| 15 | They want to feel that they are eating the kind of food which will add to the chances of their remaining in good health , but often they can not see how they can do so if their income has been drastically reduced . |
| 16 | They can not see how they could begin to generalise about approaches to women in development that could be useful since women are represented in rich and poor , rural and urban , educated and uneducated , all ethnic , religious , cultural , tribal and other groupings . |
| 17 | She quoted to me an odd and illuminating point , that if he wanted to take a bath when he was with friends , he could not see why they should not all be in the bath together , boys and girls , black and white . |
| 18 | Yeah yeah well you see what he said was he could not see how they could warrant him that sixty odd come as interest justify doing it . |