Example sentences of "what i [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 What I ca n't understand is who she thanks when she wants to be thankful , for example when her son was born .
2 What I ca n't now work out is how as a university student in England I managed to get tickets for Das Rheingold and Die Walküre at those first Easter Festivals .
3 But I 've got the sense to know what I ca n't do .
4 ‘ What it 's all about is what I ca n't fathom .
5 That 's what I ca n't get over .
6 Maybe what I ca n't help bringing into some of my work is that all this beauty on Koraloona demands a price .
7 ‘ But what I ca n't understand is why they did n't just take our project in the first place .
8 What I ca n't understand is how this all went on under my nose . ’
9 What I ca n't do , however , is close off the script until I know the facts .
10 ‘ Ah , that 's what I ca n't stand , the suffering , ’ said Shirley , jumping to her feet , her fifteen-year-old voice reasserting , boldly , frailly , the tones of elsewhere , of normality and new Birds Eye peas and modern kitchenettes , of television and hands fumbling inside brassières : ‘ I ca n't stand the suffering , I wo n't suffer , I 've had enough of suffering . ’
11 She explained : ‘ I 'm the boss and I delegate what I ca n't do .
12 This is what I ca n't understand .
13 What I ca n't understand , ’ she said at last , coming to a stop again behind David 's chair , ‘ is why he married me at all and why he … . ’
14 Erm and then I thought , now , what I ca n't do is I I ca n't do what we did last year a and really put a photograph and a des and a description of it .
15 What I ca n't understand is why God had to be dragged into it in the first place .
16 What what what I ca n't understand , I can be alright , at the day , and as
17 But what I ca n't do is to look back and saying you 've been , you are like this now but
18 ‘ I thought so , but what I ca n't understand is why you 're letting Dana get away with it .
19 That 's what I ca n't forgive — that he should be so gormless ! ’
20 What I ca n't understand , ’ the Archdeacon went on , ‘ is why Dersingham put Marr in in the first place . ’
21 What I ca n't take is seeing you distressed like this and not knowing why .
22 Erm , you know , this is what I ca n't understand , we have n't heard this .
23 What I ca n't understand , ’ Richards said , ‘ is why we have to wait .
24 What I ca n't understand is this . ’
25 What I ca n't see , though , ’ said Zeinab , ‘ is why bother with all this ?
26 But you can do what I ca n't do , I can do what you ca n't do .
27 What I ca n't understand , though , is why the British should want to get involved . ’
28 Now what I ca n't explain why , is that he starts with thirty two , now whether he sort of gets muddled up with the sort of the system of something I do n't know , but for some reason best known to himself , he starts with thirty two , and the continuum goes up to a hundred and sixty .
29 Well that have actually been told that if anything comes in providing This is what I ca n't get through We 've said to them you can bring your radios in but give to Brian first .
30 I ca n't remember what I ca n't remember what they charge , it is on that bill what they charge for a Saturday .
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