Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] can not [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I can not tell you now , I ca n't remember where the quarry was whether it was North Wales Quarry , whether it was Slate Quarry down in in in |
| 2 | So you can not take it for granted . |
| 3 | A cat has no concept of its own death and so it can not anticipate it , no matter how ill it feels . |
| 4 | We continue to be pleased to hear by word of mouth that Medau News is ‘ interesting ’ , ‘ well-presented ’ and ‘ a good idea ’ … this is , of course , very gratifying but still we can not inveigle you into putting pen to paper and writing to us . |
| 5 | So , we let them come into the harbour approaches , the narrowing river-mouth , where they must bunch and slow to avoid running aground on the sand-bars , then pound them from here while still they can not reach us effectively . |
| 6 | It imposed it on our system of government , and now we can not change it , whether it was right or wrong . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | ‘ I am strength and power and light and speed , Taliesin , ’ he said , ‘ but even I can not protect you from the Time Fire . |
| 9 | As do — but surely I can not mean it ! — lugworms . |
| 10 | ‘ Unfortunately I can not join you , because I am expecting a very old friend of my family , who has been here all these years , ’ she said . |
| 11 | Unfortunately I can not question him or , as yet , the men he sent who actually discovered the King 's corpse . |
| 12 | ‘ Then you can not criticise me for making the best of my situation . ’ |
| 13 | All I say is , if someone can not play in rhythm and has not music within him , then we can not admit him . |
| 14 | But if he can not show you have the papers any longer , then he can not prove he was here on the night of the murder . |
| 15 | And yet I can not refuse it . ’ |
| 16 | I see the error — yet I can not correct it without overthrowing all ‘ rules and regulations ’ , which I can not persuade myself to do , even in a work of fiction . |
| 17 | Each side of the politician-media professional partnership is striving to realize certain goals vis-à-vis the audience : yet it can not pursue them without securing in some form the co-operation of the other side . |