Example sentences of "can not [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their arm is not long enough , not strong enough , they can not lift you out from here … ’ |
| 2 | Eminent and learned the judge may be , but he can not set himself up as God over all football . |
| 3 | We do not understand it , they say , by which they seem to mean that we can not set it out in everyday words ( though actually one can go some way towards doing so , as I tried to do in Chapter V of The particle Play ) . |
| 4 | So now you see , Richard , do you not , why your mama can not let you out of her sight ? ’ |
| 5 | John Herschel in his Preliminary Discourse ( 1830 ) for the Cabinet Cyclopedia urged that while astronomers can deal with the orbits of the planets in the solar system , their inductions can not take them back to its creation . |
| 6 | But I can not take it out of store because I would be breaking the law effectively if I did . |
| 7 | They can accept or reject it , but they can not test it out in the field . |