Example sentences of "[pers pn] can not [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not feel that I am truly mistress here , while your mother is in residence . |
| 2 | Yet I can not feel that Adam was to blame . |
| 3 | I can not feel that we had been negligent , had we been dealing with another man . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Such is 67 : The detail in much of this poem remains enigmatic , but here as in 68 I can not think that the references to false ornament and cosmetics ( including wigs made of hair taken from the scalp of corpses ) are favourable to the Friend , who seems to be encouraging corruption by his own example or presence in this milieu . |
| 6 | I can not think that this is right . |
| 7 | I can not think that the words ‘ all costs ’ mean anything other than that . |
| 8 | The gravamen of the charge is the demand without reasonable or probable cause : and I can not think that the mere fact that the threat is to do something a person is entitled to do either causes the threat not to be a ‘ menace ’ within the Act or in itself provides a reasonable or probable cause for the demand … |
| 9 | If so , I can not think that your Lordships would do right , if you were now to reverse , as erroneous , a judgment of the Court of Appeal , proceeding upon a doctrine which has been accepted as part of the law of England for 280 years … . |
| 10 | I can not think that Taggy would have been obliged to turn away her admirers otherwise . ’ |
| 11 | I should suppose that it is deliberately not so expressed , for I can not think that so simple an expedient as the transfer of assets to a company resident in the United Kingdom and the immediate removal of that company outside it would not occur to the draftsman . |
| 12 | I can not think when I have enjoyed a visitor so much . ’ |
| 13 | He may regard me as an amateur but the fact is that , due to physical difficulties , I can not pull and twist in a horizontal mode and so I invoked gravity to assist . |
| 14 | He named a sum , adding ‘ I can not hope that you will agree to continue as a mere reader here . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Candidate ( thinking he has at last come upon a Village Hampden ) : ‘ I can not conceive that the Election can in any way affect your rights here . ’ |
| 16 | I can not conceive that the pathologist will trouble to look there for a puncture mark and indeed , prior to that eventuality , it does n't seem likely that the emergency team of paramedics they 'll send out from Brighton General will be well enough acquainted with the action of this drug to hit upon the right antidote in time to prevent her from expiring . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I can not forget that I was crowned head of the United Kingdom ’ , said the Queen in her Silver Jubilee speech in May 1977 . |
| 18 | I can not do as I like in the house . |
| 19 | I can not tell whether the phone has stopped ringing or not ; at some point I think I hear a ring louder than all other rings , and a voice , not Maggie 's voice , but another voice , a woman 's voice , a slow Scottish accent , asking and begging for Crilly . |
| 20 | I can not tell whether or not Lady Usk has spoken out , but I suspect not . |
| 21 | Only that I can not tell if the echoes are from the past or the future , or some other world altogether . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | And I can not suppose that experience itself has given me reason to believe that the unobserved will resemble the observed , since the appeal to experience begs the question asked ; it argues not to but from the crucial belief that our experience is a reliable guide , or that the unobserved will resemble the observed . |
| 24 | I know I can not go unless you let me , please let me go . |
| 25 | As for myself , I can not pretend that the time since we last corresponded has been equally fruitful or pleasant . |
| 26 | I can not pretend that Mr James 's book attains the same degree of enlightenment . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes … but I can not pretend that it is n't a family disaster . |
| 28 | Crucially , however , the point is this : I can not pretend that the philosophical Enlightenment has never happened , and that we are not living on the ‘ post ’ side of a scientific revolution . |
| 29 | ‘ I can not pretend that I shall ever like him , ’ said the lawyer . |
| 30 | 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 . |