Example sentences of "[pron] can not [adv] [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Well , I never did , ’ said Mrs Beavis in astonishment , ‘ I ca n't 'ardly credit Sergeant Joe doin' a thing like that . |
2 | Only of course I ca n't really imagine Nick dying … |
3 | I ca n't quite picture Veronica down on her knees with a scrubbing brush . |
4 | If you care about changing women 's lives you 've got to consider that Clare , you ca n't just throw Mrs Ramsay out — ’ |
5 | You ca n't just let Henry be ill . |
6 | ‘ You ca n't exactly count Nolan Everard . ’ |
7 | Of course I liked him — you ca n't not like Oliver once you get to know him — but he did tend to monopolise things . |
8 | At the peak , you ca n't quite see Vivoli 's but it is on the right , near the Verdi Theatre . |
9 | ‘ You ca n't really compare Kylie with anyone else around at the moment , and probably never will . |
10 | Now , stumbling through the close packed trees in the patchy moonlight , Louise panted , ‘ Jim … what are we going to do ? … we ca n't just leave Brett back there with that monster . ’ |
11 | " The one thing we regret about the move is that we ca n't still get HTV . |
12 | She writes : ‘ We can not simply shift Jesus from center-stage and replace him with humanity or God by wishing it were so . ’ |
13 | He knows so little about being loved , he can not really provide Miranda with any more than material gifts and force to persuade her to love him . |