Example sentences of "[that] he can [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a bit like the old paradox : Can God make a stone so heavy that he ca n't lift it ? |
| 2 | In some cases it may so horrify the husband that he ca n't cope and slopes off . |
| 3 | The problem Steve seems to have is that he ca n't stop himself asking banal , pretentious , inconsequential questions which produce zero ( sic ) by way of an interesting response . |
| 4 | ‘ Nothing in this marvellous list ’ says Milton ‘ was as fine as Eden ’ and of course it hurts him to say it , and I do n't think it 's far fetched to detect that hurt and pain of that great sacrifice that John Milton is making in the rhythm when we read ‘ Might with this paradise of Eden strive ’ , or in the fact that he ca n't stop there , because I did n't — as you will have realized from Bentley 's comment — I did n't read you the whole passage . |
| 5 | De Klerk dismissed suggestions that he ca n't control his security forces by pointing out that he appointed 10,000 police officers last year , and claims that the new influx will go a long way in helping subdue township unrest . |
| 6 | He says he ca n't help it , that he ca n't control himself if he 's asleep . |
| 7 | There are , however , clear attempts to make us giggle , like when the Swamp Thing ( Dick Durock ) conceives a passion for Heather Locklear 's leading lady but tells her that he ca n't give her the love she wants because he 's a plant . |
| 8 | ‘ Tomorrow , you make sure that he ca n't give details of the formula to anyone else — ever . ’ |
| 9 | He pins Andrew 's arms against the mattress while their lips twist together , Iain increasing the pressure on Andrew 's right leg so that he ca n't move . |
| 10 | MILLIONAIRE Chris Eubank has at last admitted to an opponent that he ca n't beat — the tax man . |
| 11 | I 'll tell him that he ca n't build shops here . ’ |
| 12 | Without his band 's stealthy , elegantly precise backing and stuck in front of a tape recorder , he sits shyly , sucking ice cubes and claiming — wrongly , as it happens — that he ca n't express himself . |
| 13 | ‘ Duke Michael is very sorry that he ca n't welcome you himself , ’ explained Rupert of Hentzau . |
| 14 | ‘ Today I am confident that he ca n't hurt her any more . |
| 15 | But if he has n't seen that he ca n't go round preaching to other people about their morals . |
| 16 | Staff at Lord Beaverbrook 's estate in Oxfordshire are waiting to learn if their jobs are safe after it was confirmed that he ca n't pay his debts . |
| 17 | Stewpid is up on traction , which means his arm is up in the air , so that he ca n't lie down at all , even to sleep . |
| 18 | I know somebody , male I might add , who 's so randy the whole time that he ca n't concentrate on anything . |
| 19 | When they do , he 's probably so busy making tea , answering their demands for more sugar , and looking for his favourite mug in the debris that he ca n't concentrate on his red boxes . |
| 20 | The trouble is that he ca n't recreate the formula , so he is pretty teed off by the time his fund manager Dr Crane ( Lorraine Bracco ) turns up to find out what 's going on . |
| 21 | Not that he ca n't afford it , but the shame riled un . |
| 22 | And these negotiations are mostly conducted in a tone of high comedy ; after 1930 Pound 's anger is virtually monopolized by Roosevelt 's USA , and English culture is for him just something that he ca n't take seriously . |
| 23 | And I actually think it is coming close to a professional slur on Mr to suggest that he ca n't take an independent view . |
| 24 | The fact that he ca n't remember the exact distance or his position is typical of the man , such things do n't matter to him . |
| 25 | He goes away somewhere and when they find him , he says that he does n't know who he is , and that he ca n't remember anything . ’ |
| 26 | He told me in one of his more lucid states that he ca n't write because he 's got too much to say … ’ |
| 27 | ‘ There is one Mr. Milne , officer at Oldcambus , a very old man quite worn out & unfitt for that station & is expected that he ca n't live much longer ’ , an eager applicant for a place advised Hugh Scott , the member of parliament of Berwickshire . |
| 28 | He said , just at the right time he decided that he ca n't get bath any more . |
| 29 | An eighty-six year old man has been told that he ca n't keep his artificial legs because he 's too accident prone . |
| 30 | True , he gets himself so wound up at times that he ca n't help himself . |