Example sentences of "i can not [verb] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not feel that we had been negligent , had we been dealing with another man . |
| 2 | I can not feel that I am truly mistress here , while your mother is in residence . |
| 3 | All I can now remember of questions and answers is writing a three-hour essay on ‘ Security ’ , and I can not think that it was very good . |
| 4 | He named a sum , adding ‘ I can not hope that you will agree to continue as a mere reader here . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I can not forget that I was crowned head of the United Kingdom ’ , said the Queen in her Silver Jubilee speech in May 1977 . |
| 6 | I can not I can not do I can not differentiate that I 'll tell you what I could do I 'd have no problem at all if you gave me something Y equals U squared no problem |
| 7 | ‘ I can not pretend that I shall ever like him , ’ said the lawyer . |
| 8 | At this distance in time , I can not pretend that I had my doubts about its merits : what I did dwell on was a certain psychological subtlety in retailing the author 's love-life , though in terms which today would he considered ludicrously niminy-piminy . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes … but I can not pretend that it is n't a family disaster . |
| 10 | I was only three-and-a-half when I saw the Zeppelin , although I can not claim that it kindled any positive interest in flying . |
| 11 | Although Koor 's policy of siphoning money from its successful subsidiaries to loss-makers is certainly generous , I can not agree that it is ‘ hairbrained ’ . |
| 12 | I promise not to offend again , although I can not promise that I will keep the promise . ’ |
| 13 | No-one can deny that being pretty helps — no female on breakfast television would have a career otherwise — but I can not believe that we are turning back to the dark days when it was deemed the most important thing of all . |
| 14 | I can not believe that I 've cut up the dress he used to love me to wear and all I get for thanks is cheek . |
| 15 | ‘ I can not believe that I am hearing you aright , my darling . |
| 16 | I can not believe that you will burn them . |
| 17 | I can not believe that you will not . |
| 18 | I can not believe that you were quite unaware of my growing affection for you . |
| 19 | ‘ I can not believe that you are the kind of man who can just stop working on something , leaving it half-finished like this . ’ |
| 20 | I can not believe that it can be right that this late in the game Poetry is still a closed book . |
| 21 | Is my hon. Friend aware that I have lived for a number of years without any such advice , and I can not believe that it is really necessary ? |
| 22 | I can not believe that it is sensible to spend as much as we do at present per hectare on tobacco . |
| 23 | I I can not I I can not believe that it is w within the the standards of the conservative party that I joined , that this sort of diary writing , gossipy , pseudo history er is part of the convention . |
| 24 | I can not say that they were happy days , but they taught me what life is about . |
| 25 | But to say that the half-yearly payments were to continue till the whole sum of £2,090 19s. , ‘ and interest thereon , ’ should have been fully paid and satisfied , would be to introduce very important words into the agreement which are not there , and of which I can not say that they are necessarily implied . |
| 26 | When the time came , I can not say that we followed all of the advice we were given . |
| 27 | I can not say that I care for these self-perpetuating societies . ’ |
| 28 | " I can not say that I think of [ the causal determinist 's view ] as having any plausibility . |
| 29 | If the question be ( as , in the actual state of the law , I think it is ) , whether consideration is , or is not , given in a case of this kind , by the debtor who pays down part of the debt presently due from him , for a promise by the creditor to relinquish , after certain further payments on account , the residue of the debt , I can not say that I think consideration is given , in the sense which I have always understood that word as used in our law . |
| 30 | I can not say that I believe that that council necessarily represents the views of industry and commerce . |