Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] can not [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's a very rare model , but while I ca n't get fired up to restoring it at the moment , I just can not bring myself to sell it , ’ is Gordon 's dilemma . |
| 2 | I just can not believe it . |
| 3 | I just can not understand it . ’ |
| 4 | I just can not have her today as well ! |
| 5 | He said today : ‘ I just can not see him ever coming back , not after this length of time . |
| 6 | I still can not say whose bomb did turn the Tirpitz over , But this is all good for morale ; like the piece of the Tirpit : that I was able to secure for these two happy squadrons , encased in a large frame of good British oak , and displayed at Binbrook as a trophy of what Willie Tait and his gang of two — 617 and 9 , or 9 and 617 , the choice is yours — achieved . |
| 7 | And I say I I ca n't , I honestly can not remember what I was doing , I remember the environment one because I got a module written on that erm I remember that I had put in er I want to do first aid and safety in the home sort of thing er , they were three modules that I wanted er , to do . |
| 8 | ‘ I really can not expect you to accept me after the way in which I have behaved , and then was wicked enough to read your private book , and the cuttings are there , I knew that you would want them back , and I expect that you will wish to make a career in journalism , and why accept a poor doctor , no need to do that , you can always live on your father 's allowance and what a remarkable man he is , so like you , or earn your living by your pen … ’ |
| 9 | I really can not believe I 'm hearing aright . ’ |
| 10 | I simply can not think what has happened to this class you 've ta when you 've . |
| 11 | For my part I simply can not predict what effect , for good or ill , this kind of centralization would have on the education service . |
| 12 | I therefore can not tell you how annoyed I was to read Ken Pringle 's article ‘ Gender politics ’ ( 4 March ) . |
| 13 | I therefore can not submit his application to the House today . |
| 14 | I certainly can not stop you and she is not here to ask . ’ |
| 15 | In the cold light of day you come to realise that you just can not do it all the time , that the body comes to a point where , for the moment , it has had enough . |
| 16 | It knows that , whatever the Government say , eventually European law or the law of a more enlightened British Government will say , ’ You just can not do it . ’ |
| 17 | You just can not live it . |
| 18 | ‘ Unless your country has been divided too , you just can not imagine what we feel like , ’ says a middle-aged secretary . |
| 19 | You just can not get nothing else |
| 20 | But , note , that although your book will be much more like " real life " than the basic , blueprint formula , you still can not upset your readers by , as in real life , having the murderer be that passing sex pervert or opportunist small-time thief . |
| 21 | The Court of Protection exists for people who really can not manage their own affairs , and have some reserves of property , capital , or income to handle . |
| 22 | ’ The vast number of shoplifters are selfish , hard-up or just pathetic , but there are some who really can not help themselves , ’ he says . |
| 23 | You really can not tell me too much — I would rather sift through a huge amount of detail and give you a definite answer than have to suggest all the possible alternatives and leave you to figure out which applies in your case . |
| 24 | The second list tells you which foods naturally contain those items — but remember , if you really can not bring yourself to eat a particular range of foods , it is always possible to take the lacking vitamin in tablet form . |
| 25 | We have a lot of families in poverty who simply can not feed themselves . ’ |
| 26 | This deserves special mention because , on the assumption that various conditions which appear to be satisfied by the return maps are actually satisfied , this attractor is probably the only well understood strange attractor known in a system of " natural " three-dimensional differential equations ; we have strong reasons to suppose that there can be no stable orbits in a relatively large parameter range , as opposed to the normal " chaotic attractors where one merely can not observe them but has no arguments to suggest they can not exist ( they may be of extremely high period or have very complicated basins of attraction see { 8 } ) . |
| 27 | Are you saying that there are molecules out there in space which we just can not form ourselves in a laboratory ? |
| 28 | We just can not sit it out here all the time or we 'll all go mad . ’ |
| 29 | One of the organisers , John Tipple , of the Socialist Workers Party , said : ‘ We just can not trust what is being said . |
| 30 | And so the experience of seeing something as blue has logical conditions in that one logically can not have it unless one can discriminate between objects in respect of their being or not being blue . |