Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] can not " in BNC.
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| 1 | as Steel-Maitland reported to Law in 1914 : " sunderland : He says he can not manage thee distant meetings . |
| 2 | He says he can not waste the day whilst you converse with a madman . ’ |
| 3 | Sneezy was Robin Cook ( ‘ he 's going to catch a cold when he finds you can not solve all problems by throwing money at them ’ ) and Dopey , You Know Who . |
| 4 | Faldo said at Wentworth yesterday that he made the decision because he feels he can not now finish at the top of the European order of merit by playing in Spain . |
| 5 | However , he feels he can not disillusion his tender plant of a wife , and so is saddled with Brenda for ever . |
| 6 | He said we can not allow that . |
| 7 | And he said he 's quite prepared to do it , he said , there would n't be no problem but he said I can not do it , he said they are |
| 8 | Preferably by retaining the two-thirds majority , but at least ensuring as my Noble Friend Lord has suggested , a clear majority and I myself will go on reiterating the principle , enunciated by Professor in the er and also much commended by some elements in the Conservative Party and he said you can not have real effective democracy without real effective local self government , and he said that in the light of his experiences in pre-war Germany . |
| 9 | He claims he can not lose . |
| 10 | His dream is only an illusion and he knows it can not be realised . |
| 11 | While he knows he can not directly relate all his " help " to profit , he realizes that the creation of a " helping " culture throughout his organization and beyond will yield dividends in the long term . |
| 12 | He knows he can not build his ‘ new society ’ in Mozambique without this . |
| 13 | Satan now seems absurd in raging against the omnipotence of God , he knows he can not possibly achieve anything by his rantings . |
| 14 | This change in Pip 's attitude and behaviour and perhaps his realisation that he is not a true gentleman is his final change from contentment , to discontentment and snobbery to finally semi-contentment though I think he knows he can not be fully content with reaching some sort of conclusion with Estella as she still has his heart . |
| 15 | But he knows he can not possibly find $2 of spending cuts for every $1 in increased taxes , as once was promised . |