Example sentences of "i [verb] [pers pn] can not " in BNC.
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| 1 | I regret I can not give the correct pronunciation of the Gaelic names of the mountains : I never mastered them , adopting instead roughly similar English equivalents ; thus , for example , Ceathreamhnan to me was Chrysanthemum … |
| 2 | I regret I can not give the petitioner relief . |
| 3 | But I regret I can not agree with some of the reasoning in the judgments . |
| 4 | well I , I mean we can not leave it lying around , erm do you know what Mr position is on Monday ? |
| 5 | I mean I can not believe that the guy |
| 6 | but I mean you can not tell me that , that |
| 7 | As I eat I can not help but notice the Frenchman attending to the pig ; he has now cut the animal 's throat and has set alight to the straw , the flames and smoke engulfing the unfortunate pig . |
| 8 | ‘ I fear I can not help you . |
| 9 | ‘ I fear I can not help you , ’ the voice concluded smoothly . |
| 10 | You must forgive me , Mrs O'Dell , I fear I can not stay for coffee — I have many other calls upon my time . |
| 11 | And I fear I can not answer that question to anyone 's satisfaction . |
| 12 | ‘ I fear he can not last much longer … |
| 13 | ‘ It had been my intention to ask Tom to help manage Handley Farm , but I realise he can not possibly take on such a task now he has been asked to perform similar duties on behalf of the manor . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I realise you can not afford to run all the time but , that said , it should still be the first thing you have a look at , ’ he reasoned . |
| 15 | I know I can not go unless you let me , please let me go . |
| 16 | But in my heart of hearts I know I can not telephone him . |
| 17 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 18 | I assume you can not , for already the feelings I had at the time are inscrutable to me , so imbued was I with an electric sense of occasion . |
| 19 | I confess I can not really see worm watching catching on as a mass pursuit with worm watcher clubs and organised field visits , but I did hear of an infants ' school where the worm has joined the tadpole as a creature for study . |
| 20 | Such chivalry is rarely met with by such as I , and although I know I should refuse it , for it will put you in debt , I confess I can not . ’ |
| 21 | Beyond that I believe we can not go , although there are occasionally tantalizing groups of poems on related themes , either brought together by the editor/printer or composed as deliberate variations on a theme , and perhaps copied out on a ‘ sheet ’ of paper , folio size , folded ( which we know was a unit of composition and occasionally payment in Elizabethan poetry and drama ) . |
| 22 | BELVILLE : [ aside ] I find I can not master my passion for her . |
| 23 | BELVILLE : I had thought you should have sat at table with me , but when I find you can not forget your original but must prefer my menials to me , you shall wait on me while I sup . |
| 24 | I suppose I can not complain , the wine was scrounged from the Officers quarters at Brigade H.Q just before we left that area . |
| 25 | You have in your possession a copy of my report , I feel I can not thank members adequately , those who collect subscriptions and those members who made such lovely vestments ; for their dedication to the Guild . |
| 26 | Yet I feel I can not do that without offending you , Li Yuan . |
| 27 | ‘ I feel I can not — never , never ! ’ |
| 28 | I feel I can not mention them all yet again , much as I should like to . |
| 29 | Concerning those who die in their sins Jesus said ‘ Whither I go ye CAN NOT come . ’ |
| 30 | put the contrary view in the form of a dilemma when he said : ‘ Either they were performing this public duty in giving the protection asked for , in which case I think they can not charge , or , which no one suggests , they were at the request of an individual doing something which it was not their duty to do , in which case it seems to me both public policy and section 10 of the County Police Act 1839 , make the contract illegal and void . ’ |