Example sentences of "[pers pn] can not [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to have a family one day but I can not think about next week , let alone something as important as that , ’ she added with already familiar coyness . |
| 2 | I can not think of my own knowledge of the physical world in terms of my dispositions to behave , but only as my dispositions , construed as operating in the world of which |
| 3 | I can not think of one argument against staying warm and dry . |
| 4 | I can not think of anything that happened that day which I would have wished otherwise . |
| 5 | ‘ I am anxious that you should stay here until I return and I can not think of a better way of making sure you do than by putting you in charge of my property , ’ he explained . |
| 6 | Among grasses , I can not think of a single one that is not lovely . |
| 7 | As a nurse I can not think of a healthier diet to follow and can see no disadvantages in it . |
| 8 | I can not think of any flower that does not press better for being taken apart , although of course you will have to spend time putting it back together again when you want to use it . |
| 9 | She never met any men until she met the young man whom I can not think of as my father . |
| 10 | I can not think of any United States naval officer whom I would sooner have in his place in those near-impossible circumstances . |
| 11 | She never could have done in Europe what she did in New York ; I can not think of an artist who points up this issue more clearly and I can not understand why she of all people was left out of the show . |
| 12 | Now I could write a book on Workers I have known and they are worth a mention here , because I can not think of any other branch of agriculture , but organics , where people will almost pay to work for you . |
| 13 | I can not think of anything that would have made the loss of the election from my point of view more certain . |
| 14 | I can not think of your offer without equal concern and gratitude ; however , I will rely wholly upon your goodness in assisting my escape . |
| 15 | In fact , I can not think of any great golfers afflicted with legs divergent from the normal . |
| 16 | In the nineteen years that I have been in Parliament , I can not think of anyone , save for Enoch Powell , who has been a more powerful advocate of liberal economics than John Biffen . |
| 17 | I can not think of what to say . |
| 18 | I note in passing , however , that , when it comes to squandering the nation 's money , I can not think of a better example than the enormous amounts squandered by the Government in setting up the machinery for the administration of the poll tax , which is now to be totally unwound . |
| 19 | I can not think of many times when I have been able to say that the Green party is very much on our side in this matter . |
| 20 | I can not think of a more patsy , unquestioning system better designed to produce the cosy relationship about which the hon. Gentleman so frequently speaks . |
| 21 | I can not think of a recipe for diminution of standards that is more likely to succeed . |
| 22 | I can not think of anything more dull . ’ |
| 23 | Now I can not think of a single occasion over the years , my adulthood when I have been going to theatre arts events of any kind when I 've actually gone out and bought anything as a result of sponsorship of a programme I 've been looking at . |
| 24 | We are starting with the press that the need for a National Airport 's policy I can not think of a number , a major or even a concentrate all these airfields and resources in one region . |
| 25 | You know , we 'll so we 've been quite a few times since , but I can not think of the name of it . |
| 26 | But then no foreigner is ever going to tell me I can not walk on my country 's hills . |
| 27 | Pine martens undoubtedly kill rabbits in hill and mountain country but that 's not my scene and I can not comment on it . |
| 28 | I can not comment on the devices available in other languages , but in Arabic , for instance , the particle qad may be used with the past tense of the verb to convey emphasis . |
| 29 | The hon. Gentleman will know that I can not comment on what he said about taxation . |
| 30 | I can not comment on individual cases without all the information available in front of me . |