Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] [prep] each [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or as Dr Dani Bevan , general manager of Powys health authority puts it : ‘ If we do n't get the communications right , we ca n't talk to each other . ’ |
| 2 | And I do n't intend to meddle in your family life — if you ca n't talk to each other , it 's none of my business . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Our branches ca n't talk to each other . |
| 4 | Alamena knows we ca n't stay in each other 's company for longer than a minute or two without quarrelling . ’ |
| 5 | Although I do n't think it 's impossible that it ca n't be the other way , that two people ca n't grow toward each other . |
| 6 | Is it really plausible that thousands upon thousands of lucky chance mutations happened coincidentally so that the lens and the retina , which can not work without each other , evolved in synchrony ? |
| 7 | He also states , as though it were obvious , that the lens and the retina can not work without each other . |
| 8 | A Norwich wool comber protested to the employers in a dispute in 1752 : " We are social creatures and can not live without each other , and why should you des-troy community … ? " |
| 9 | ‘ We can not say in each case exactly what the defendant did . |
| 10 | Ministers can not disagree with each other and , therefore , they never do so . |