Example sentences of "what you can not [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | You can work on a presumption , a prebonderance of probabilities or whatever , but I mean what you can not do is take it that it 's absolutely fact that that is going to happen . |
2 | What you can not do is leave it overnight . |
3 | To see what you can not hear , particularly consonant sounds , improves speech reception wonderfully . |
4 | You ca n't hate what you can not touch , I ca n't even feel what most people think of as despair . |
5 | ‘ John , you 're not trying ! ’ and you look at your feet in the mirror , ugly , unable to do the things which you want them to do , or see your body collapse in the middle when you know that it should be firm and rigid — and see them all , even the children , doing something , following what you can not follow . |
6 | What you can not turn to with such pride is BR 's printed timetable , which changed format several times during the eighties and ended as a poor thing , well below continental standards . |