Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abbott C.J. and Holroyd J. decided the case on the simple ground that the sheriff could not retain what he was not entitled to demand without any suggestion of a demand colore officii or an involuntary payment . |
| 2 | They laughed , swam in the Humber ( which , strangely , was as warm as bathwater and a dazzling , transparent blue ) , chased each other , in slow motion , through the sand dunes , caught each other and kissed , fed each other with — Marie could not decide what they should feed each other with . |
| 3 | Gaily could not decide what to do . |
| 4 | He was liable to forget to buy birthday or Christmas presents ( one year when he resolved to mark Christmas properly , he bought everyone gift vouchers because he could not decide what to get ) , but would make a gift out of the blue for no other reason than that it was a nice day . |
| 5 | He could not decide what to do next . |
| 6 | He felt dazed and confused because he could not decide what Jeopardy had meant by his remark . |
| 7 | Something about it was slightly different today , but he could not decide what it was |
| 8 | There was something wrong about her scheme but she could not clarify what it was . |
| 9 | I could not think what it was that could be for me and yet so heavy . |
| 10 | Thiercelin still could not think what he was talking about . |
| 11 | This quiet group of people looked so simple and unassuming that at first he could not think what made them interesting to him , and then he realized that they gave every appearance of complete sincerity . |
| 12 | Her curious visage reminded him of something but he could not think what . |
| 13 | Ruth could not think what to say to him . |
| 14 | He could not think what had got into Helen , normally as rational as himself about all this , or so he had thought . |
| 15 | Well , it was the best he had been able to come up with and , if it was not sufficient , he could not think what else he could do . |
| 16 | Rain could not think what it was Fitzgerald had done that Sabine Jourdain later copied , but regardless of that she spurred him on : ‘ Yes . ’ |
| 17 | I heard a strange sound coming from the hut , but I could not think what was making the noise . |
| 18 | Really , she could not think what had come over Harold . |
| 19 | Robert could not think what he meant by this . |
| 20 | He could not think what had happened for things to have become so out of hand . |
| 21 | He had frequently encouraged others to doss down simply because , as he admitted , he could not bear what he thought about at night . |
| 22 | They just could not repeat what transpired . |
| 23 | He had confiscated the journal , but he could not confiscate what was in Ben 's head . |
| 24 | Dust was pluming from a road in the centre of that landscape , but , even with the help of the battered old telescope , Sharpe could not tell what traffic made the dust rise , or in what direction it travelled . |
| 25 | Only his eyes were small , and they were set so deeply in their orbits that you could not tell what colour they were . |
| 26 | The legislation reflected a judgement that local authorities could not deliver what the national interest required . |
| 27 | He shook his head a fraction and his gaze slid to the door and back — but even searching the hyacinth radiance around his head she could not guess what he really meant to do . |
| 28 | The officers could not guess what these things were , but they were , of course , my two pocket knives and my watch . |
| 29 | The household unit of production , though headed by male weaver or other out-worker , was not governed by the object of accumulating a monetary surplus : " It could not maximise what it could not measure . " |
| 30 | Perhaps they could not be good wives and good mothers because they could not give what they had never had . |