Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [vb infin] but [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you ca n't fail but to think of the air intakes starting in the rear part of the door and merging into the rear wing , whether they 're straked , like the Testarossa 's and 348's , or finely sculpted like the 328's . |
| 2 | ‘ Anybody with a bit of a ticker behind their rib cage ca n't help but respond to things like that . |
| 3 | We ca n't help but go from strength to strength . |
| 4 | Presumably , he catches the scent of a bitch in season on the wind and ca n't help but follow it . |
| 5 | ‘ So you keep on saying , but I still ca n't help but remember what it was like out on that deck tonight . |
| 6 | When you see him charging around you ca n't help but get involved . |
| 7 | When you see him charging around you ca n't help but get involved . |
| 8 | But , nonetheless , I ca n't help but agree . ’ |
| 9 | That possibility has raised blood pressures at the European Space Agency , but the lowered expectations for the shuttle fleet ca n't help but brighten prospects for more business for Ariane , Europe 's own satellite launching service |
| 10 | Probably not , but one ca n't help but speculate that the popularity of the showband in the Republic might go some way to explain the somewhat over-earnest search for ‘ authenticity ’ exhibited by U2 . |
| 11 | But Le Tissier said : ‘ You ca n't help but admire the bloke . |
| 12 | You ca n't help but notice some lousy couplets , but he invariably ends in style , spitting the final words , crumpling his lines , and discarding them with a terse ‘ that 's it ’ . |
| 13 | They came from Rick Todd , a Canadian now making his home in El Paso , Texas — Trevino country — presumably because he studied golf at the University of Texas-El Paso and decided to stick around , although you ca n't help but notice that he could n't have settled much further from Canada if he 'd tried . |
| 14 | Reading brochures and newspapers these days , you ca n't help but notice the amount of ‘ buzzwords ’ that are commonly used . |
| 15 | ‘ You ca n't help but learn from people like Wayne Swinscoe and Frank Barlow and other great anglers who live in this area . |
| 16 | I ca n't help but wonder why on earth they did have a different strip for the World Cup . |
| 17 | It 's a sad story but not one without some humour , for I ca n't help but wonder if in some tiny village in Spain there is a child with the name Jesus Francisco Brunskill or Jose Fothergill . |
| 18 | And I ca n't help but wonder whether Beth 's all right . ’ |
| 19 | But you 're scared stiff , and I ca n't help but wonder why . ’ |
| 20 | One ca n't help but see Jason , stage-right , and keyboard empress Kate Radley , left , as Shakespearean lovers kept apart by some imaginary sea , pining poetically for one another … alright , alright , I used to think Spiritualized were horsewank . |
| 21 | ‘ People here ca n't help but think it must have been a local person , ’ said young mother Janeen Armstrong . |
| 22 | ‘ Given there are some 100,000 climbers in the UK and only 100 or so took part , I ca n't help but think that a tremendous message of indifference . |
| 23 | There is nothing as joyful for the opinionated as to have finally been proved right and I ca n't help but think there are many marginally employed musicians around Ireland today who weep or harrumph glumly into their pints when they think what might have happened if they 'd listened to Nicky . |
| 24 | I speak on behalf of Playback not as Playback itself , but as Playback being part of the Regional Council that can a bit , now I was at a meeting this morning where I , I sort of absolutely had to read the riot act about Playback because they do not have a set budget whether you know this or not , they do n't have a standard budget as they should have , we 've fought for this for years , what we do is , we survive through crisis to crisis , now some money has been extracted from the Playback budget and whilst I have to share two bits of Playback , you know , the , the actual Playback charitable , voluntary bit , and the Regional Council , I mean they , I , I can say that they do not have a backing of money that they can fall back on , too many backs there , but I mean really I would say that I would be concerned if it was Christmas before we were ready , I , I ca n't help but think if we could and I mean , very , very happy to work with , with anybody and everybody on this to try and get these things pulled up quite quickly , I mean if it 's forms to be filled in then |
| 25 | I mean , if you 're not enjoying it yourself , you ca n't help but think how funny men are when they 're doing it . |
| 26 | I ca n't help but think , chairman , in my career I was never given a bottle of whisky to help with the |
| 27 | I ca n't help but think the two are connected — that the boy is responsible for this . ’ |
| 28 | I think sometimes I ca n't help but think it 's how they made him in a way , you know , like I , you , sometimes your , I think you should sit down and play with something , but he wo n't sit quiet and amuse himself |
| 29 | Ali returns to the kitchen , still barefoot from his prayers , moving so quietly I ca n't help but believe he 's trying not to disturb so much as the dust beneath his feet . |
| 30 | ‘ You ca n't help but do well with players in-form like that all around you . |