Example sentences of "we can not help [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can not but be overwhelmingly impressed by what the Chinese have achieved in the country and elsewhere , but at the same time we can not help seeing the comic side of the rituals in which we find ourselves participating . |
| 2 | The appeal of this lies , I suggest , in the fact that if we imagine a beautiful object , we can not help thinking it good that there should be such a thing . |
| 3 | It is all guesswork , but we can not help thinking about it , and I have thought a great deal about it . |
| 4 | We know we should find porn utterly repellent but we can not help finding it endlessly fascinating . |
| 5 | When reading this section , we can not help putting in a pause after ‘ dead ’ to emphasise the ‘ yet ’ making it a cynical remark with the implication that he soon will be dead . |
| 6 | We can not help signing so long as there is another human being who needs to read the signs . |
| 7 | A feature of village life that we can not help noticing is how people come together to share their common joys and griefs . |