Example sentences of "and [pron] can not [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Your honour knows you went too far for a master to a servant or even to his equal and I can not bear it . |
| 3 | Throwing yourself at men , men of gross natures , is a still-greater act of self-abuse , and I can not warn you too strongly that you are placing yourself in the very gravest danger . |
| 4 | Besides , the girl has done nothing wrong , and I can not allow her to be treated this way . ’ |
| 5 | And I can not take you with me . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The heroin was in my possession and I can not prove it was n't mine , ’ said 26-year-old Peter Heather after the hearing in Bangkok . |
| 7 | I have been able to get on with ‘ getting better ’ simply because my colleagues have taken responsibility for my work load ever since the Executive Committee Meeting in July , and I can not thank them enough for all that they have done . |
| 8 | er I think we get a saturation point and the thing that annoys me is that young fellow who came to the club had a got , we got a special went to the special trouble of getting a for him and I can not get it off him and he lives up Newton way somewhere I 've been to him three times |
| 9 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 10 | ‘ And you can not tell me what it is ? ’ |
| 11 | and you can not shift it |
| 12 | ‘ Your vassals will come to you for justice , and you can not expect them to accept your judgement if it can be seen that you hold the Yasa in contempt . ’ |
| 13 | you 'll probably say well that is does n't er quite ring a bell , because you 've never used it and you can not use it until I tell you what it is |
| 14 | And you can not act it . |
| 15 | He won that actually on appeal because he said he needed to raise the funds for a project he 'd got in mind and they allowed him twenty eight days in the first year , he now carries on fourteen days without planning permission every year , but give him credit he does run it very well , er and you can not fault him , but we in our area do actually issue licences , you can not have a car boot sale or market stall without a licence and I personally have run the charity markets in er the village high street and got a licence at the cost of a pound . |
| 16 | A rush of disagreement to this : ‘ Oh , but the excitement — and you can not call it work ’ ( this from Mrs Hunnard ) . |
| 17 | Furthermore , the problems , as well as the delights , of diversity of views exist , and we can not pretend they do not . |
| 18 | The Soviet Union , so the story goes , is simply a different type of state , and we can not expect it to live peacefully or comfortably with its main adversary . |
| 19 | The spiritual care of the bereaved demands a book all on its own and we can not do it justice here since we have been more concerned with the human experiences that people undergo . |
| 20 | It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we can not sell it because it does not belong to us . |
| 21 | ‘ Saville looked a good asset and we can not replace him . |
| 22 | Mr Gould , ’ the piece continued , ‘ has left our shores for Southern [ South Australia ] and we can not wish him better success than that which he has hitherto experienced . ’ |
| 23 | We have followed the trail of these people only to find that they have moved house and we can not trace them . |
| 24 | We have followed the trail of these people only to find that they have moved house and we can not trace them . |
| 25 | Let us take instead one comparatively small piece of country , which contains every variety of road from the prehistoric trackway to the modern by-pass , so that the detailed differences are brought out : for the interest of an inquiry such as this , and one can not say it too often , lies in the detail of the subject . |
| 26 | I have searched high and low and can not find them I have sent others out , two dozen , also seeking , and they can not find them either . |
| 27 | An observer at a distance from the black hole can measure only the outgoing particles , and he can not correlate them with those that fall into the hole because he can not observe them . |
| 28 | The middle child is severely disabled and necessary d adaptations would cost him three thousand seven hundred , that 's what he 's got ta find , and he can not afford it , he ca n't afford to borrow that . |
| 29 | By reacting in this way , Jane is able to stand back from the situation and it can not hurt her as it used to do . |