Example sentences of "[noun sg] i can [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a scientist I can not believe it — but I saw it happen with my own eyes . |
| 2 | She supplies the book 's hasty conclusion after the death at Lydiard Constantine of Philip — a partial picture of one side of the Battersea Grammar School Edward : At this point the people of Abercorran House — even Jessie and Aurelius- and the dogs that stretched out in death like blessedness under the sun , and the pigeons that courted and were courted in the yard and on the roof , all suddenly retreat from me when I come to that Spring in memory ; a haze of ghostly , shimmering silver veils them ; without Philip they are as people in a story whose existence I can not prove . |
| 3 | Yeah but if you do it above board I ca n't see |
| 4 | ‘ In the 22 years I have sat on the North Eastern Co-op 's board I can not recall a year in which so many negative factors have combined . |
| 5 | So I thought well in case I ca n't get them anywhere else the market and he said well we 'll have one from here , twelve ninety nine . |
| 6 | But in any case I can not marry your son . |
| 7 | On a personal level I ca n't go off and say ‘ Bye darling ’ , I 'll see you in a few years . |
| 8 | It says a lot for the authors ' efficiency in organising this cast subject that the only bit I ca n't pass without comment concerns the conservative backlash against the feminism of the Thatcher years . |
| 9 | Move over a bit I ca n't see |
| 10 | Then there 's a fuzzy bit I ca n't remember — oh yes , it 's not a lake , it 's the sea , with tremendous waves , and I 'm still on my front looking downwards , but the people have disappeared , and the sea 's full of the furniture at Cal 's house — the grandfather clock that chimes every quarter hour , the gold velour sofa , all those tiny thimbles and china bells that her mum dusts every day of her life , even their bath and loo in trendy slate-blue — and everything is swirling round as if a great Sea God was stirring it like a pot full of stew . |
| 11 | And there 's another bit by the science block and there 's another bit I ca n't remember now where but there was three areas that I suddenly identified , I 'm thinking it 's grotty , it looks awful |
| 12 | As a Christian I can not accept any teaching that suggests that there is any kind of spirit in plant life . |
| 13 | Mum I ca n't find any mats ! |
| 14 | Mum I ca n't find it |
| 15 | mum I ca n't hear |
| 16 | Mum I ca n't hear the telly |
| 17 | Read them out Mum I ca n't get them easily . |
| 18 | I said I understand your busy , I said if you ca n't turn him say , then I will turn him in an hour I ca n't do it before , fine , I said at least I 'm not sitting like a prat telling him a load of rubbish |
| 19 | ‘ In the depths of my heart I ca n't help being convinced that my dear fellow-men , with a few exceptions , are worthless . ’ |
| 20 | In my heart I can not accept it . ’ |
| 21 | In my heart I can not put down what happened to our family that day to anything else . |
| 22 | I hate the smell of cigarettes since I 've packed in smoking I can not stand it |
| 23 | cos it says erm says that , privatizing , the Government 's nat policy of privatization , now what does it says , shit I ca n't remember what , it 's something to do with resource allocation and efficiency |
| 24 | Erm shit I ca n't remember anyone . |
| 25 | She seems very masculine , with short hair , jeans and heavy boots and she has a sort of butch look I ca n't describe . |
| 26 | And of course I ca n't tell him . |
| 27 | Of course I ca n't repeat Gene 's formulae here , visit your library and take a look if you 're interested . |
| 28 | Of course I ca n't repeat Gene 's formulae here , visit your library and take a look if you 're interested . |
| 29 | Of course I ca n't go out while he 's got a temperature . ’ |
| 30 | He says : ‘ I can manage — course I ca n't live down there where I was . |