Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] i can not [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Moreover , you know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I can not bear [ the flute ] .
2 At the time she did not publicly disclose why , saying only , ‘ I am leaving for reasons which I can not say .
3 He pointed out that although my title was an attractive one — since there was such a thing as a ‘ servile ’ society , namely a totalitarian one — the reader would assume that I was using the word liberal in the modern sense , which was certainly not my intention , He then went meticulously through my argument , and it almost pained me that he should take so much trouble over a work which I can not think it deserved .
4 She really has this er attitude which I can not understand because erm a a as I think it was Al Reeve said , you know , erm some people ca n't bear children , we ca n't , but we like them but if you have actually borne children , you are in other words a mother , you 've got ta have a attitude , not only to children in general but to your children in particular , which is very very difficult for er a male to understand and a non-father , it 's gon na be very very difficult cos I personally do n't have any children at all and therefore it is very very difficult for me to even comprehend but given that I can erm I can sympathize with something I do not comprehend it must be monumentally difficult for her
5 In the lower house of parliament the home minister , Shankarrao Chavan , told members : ‘ The Maharashtra ( state ) government has … gathered evidence of vital importance which I can not reveal now . ’
6 Before the vote , the home minister , Shankarrao Chavan , told members : ‘ The Maharashtra ( state ) government has … gathered evidence of vital importance which I can not reveal now . ’
7 I have several directories on my hard disk which I can not delete/erase .
8 We 're following up much of the documentation that we found and hope it could lead to other things which I can not reveal .
9 We 're following up much of the documentation that we found and hope it could lead to other things which I can not reveal .
10 Soon afterwards I became openly rebellious at school and , after some final misdemeanour which I can not recall but suspect to have been trivial , I was asked to leave .
11 For I am surprised and enchanted often by some quality which I can not detect .
12 She never met any men until she met the young man whom I can not think of as my father .
13 I have been keeping tropical fish for some twenty years , but for the last two months I have been cursed with a problem which I can not solve .
14 These work fine expect for one annoying problem which I can not seem to eliminate .
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