Example sentences of "[pron] can not [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not think what the Riding , but not only the Riding , will be without him . |
| 2 | ‘ Should you come to town , I am sorry that I can not offer you a home pro tempore — pro trumpery indeed it would be , if I did not make any such offer — for unless you occupied the grate as a seat — I see no probability of your finding any rest consonant with the safety of my parrots — seeing , that of the six chairs I possess — 5 are at present occupied with lithographic prints : — the whole of my exalted & delightful upper tenement in fact overflows with them , and for the last 12 months I have so moved — thought — looked at , — & existed among parrots — that should any transmigration take place at my decease I am sure my soul would be very uncomfortable in anything but one of the psittacidae . ’ |
| 3 | I can not express what a privilege it has been transcribing it and entering your very mind and spirit in the throes of creativity , as it were . |
| 4 | Aye you see I can not tell you the right story , but when Mary Queen of Scots |
| 5 | I d I know that , there 's that phrase you know , we will never see his like again , I think we probably will , but it will be a very long time , and I can not tell you the infinite feeling of sadness erm , that I felt when I heard of his passing . |
| 6 | That 's right so you then go into the en suite room , well I can not tell you the trouble I 've had from the en suite ! |
| 7 | But on this case , I can not give it a try — that is the point . |
| 8 | I can not give you a firm promise that this is the turning point . |
| 9 | I can not give you the exact quantities you should use , for it will vary from one water to another according to the carp population . |
| 10 | All this may seem like a put-off — but so many have died through lack of thought , facilities and impatience I can not give you the impression that they are going to be cheap and easy , quite the reverse ! |
| 11 | I can not envisage what the circumstances will be in 20 years ' time . |
| 12 | Perhaps Mr Robinson had learnt something from them , or perhaps that woman ( I can not call her a wife ) had told him everything . |
| 13 | At this stage , I can not say what the link will be , although I can say that it will be a dedicated , high-quality link . |
| 14 | Wilkinson said yesterday : ‘ I can not guarantee anyone a place here . |
| 15 | Now it was a rule and the custom at the time that any of the staff could impose a fine on the spot and in this circumstance Fagan imposed a fine of 10 " ackers " — that is 10 piastres , which I can not remember what the value was at the time , but let us say it was something in the order of 5 . |
| 16 | I can not remember who the letter is from . |
| 17 | I can not imagine who the people were who thought up such fiendish dodges , but they stopped at nothing . |
| 18 | As I increased Cleveland 's capital allocation from £2.9 million to £3.8 million , I can not accept what the hon. Gentleman says . |
| 19 | So if you can not decide what the icon that looks like a milk churn with an overgrown mushroom beside it means you can select it and discover that it means Paste Clipboard contents — oh perhaps it is supposed to be a drawing pin besides a board but you could have fooled me ! |
| 20 | You can not , you can not give them the the national curriculum book ! |
| 21 | You can not guarantee what the resulting shade will be , though — you build up depth with subsequent layers — and you can get tell-tale streaking if you are not very careful with application . |
| 22 | He is a devil , but you can not help what the gods … ’ |
| 23 | You can not imagine what the first few minutes of that bombardment were like . |
| 24 | Due to the constraints of the Trove system we can not show you the policies as they are actually printed . |
| 25 | We can not tell who the members of such a union might be . |
| 26 | But we can not smell what the dog can smell , nor interpret such scents , body postures and barks in the way our dog does . |
| 27 | Perhaps by contemplating you will find something that is wrong in your proposition … dig the gold and look at the country , but we can not give you the country you ask for . |
| 28 | We can not know what the future will bring ; nor did he . |
| 29 | But we do not like to admit that we masturbate , because people might think that we can not get ourselves a man or a woman of our own . |
| 30 | We can not say what the outcome of a meeting of the Defence Committee might have been , or whether the course of events would have been altered if it had met in September 1981 ; but , in our view , it could have been advantageous , and fully in line with Whitehall practice , for Ministers to have reviewed collectively at that time , or in the months immediately ahead , the current negotiating position ; the implications of the conflict between the attitudes of the Islanders and the aims of the Junta ; and the longer-term policy options in relation to the dispute . |