Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh adv] he could 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 | The erstwhile churchman , standing by the window where he could not be seen from below , turned round and advanced into the room , smiling , the patches of eczema on his face reddening with pleasure . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I was up there , stood on the landing where he could n't hear me and could n't see me I was |
| 6 | He settled into the new way of life and rarely thought about Manchester , a place where he could not recollect the sun ever shining . |
| 7 | Then he came to a place where he could not push between two heavy warren bucks . |
| 8 | He watched his tears drip onto the floor and wondered from a great distance why he could not feel them running down his face . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He raised the stakes when he could not win . |
| 11 | Either that , or he could waylay one of the match officials and help run the line where he could not only point out to the referee the error of his ways but also use a brightly-coloured flag to do so . |
| 12 | She took the breast well and slept at night without the drops of laudanum with which the nurse had dosed the infant Benjamin when he could not sleep . |
| 13 | And , and that 's the only reason why he wanted her there , that 's the only reason why he could not accept her as a friend or an , as a companion . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She … she wanted to provide me with something to be able to go off with Emma where he could n't get at her . |
| 16 | The nights when he could not sleep had been the worst , when the dark thoughts of despair and depression came creeping into the mind . |
| 17 | He stressed that he had relinquished his deferment after only two months , thereby allowing his name to go back into the draft pool at a time when he could not have known that the draft would be shortly replaced by a lottery system . |