Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [adv] can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a disabled person does get into a phone box he or she still can not reach the telephone . |
| 2 | Then he dropped his bombshell — it was only available in injectable form and I just can not stand needles . ’ |
| 3 | It 's such an unpleasant job and I just can not cope with it . |
| 4 | ‘ And I just can not concentrate with people fussing around me . ’ |
| 5 | He has been trying for three years and he said today : ‘ Maybe it is because , God knows , I 've had some leg problems and I just can not climb those steps that easily , ’ he joked . |
| 6 | I am drawn to Cal 's guitar , and I finally can not help but ask if he will play a tune , something by Christy Moore . |
| 7 | There must be quite a number of readers who have had Uxbridge Cottage Pie at some time — and I obviously can not tell how the 1991 version compared with earlier versions — but I can say that I enjoyed this particular dish and that the taste and texture were very good . |
| 8 | I can not comment on the details , and I certainly can not promise a statement next week . |
| 9 | ‘ Our backs were disappointing in some respects against Monaghan , ’ he chides , ‘ We gave away two goals within a couple of minutes and you simply can not do that and expect to win championship matches — it 's not just on . ’ |
| 10 | Every year , your body replaces 20% of its bone calcium and you simply can not afford to fall behind in this natural process . |
| 11 | ( Mar 21-Apr 20 ) The situation in the heavens is rather complex , if not explosive , at the moment and you really can not expect any favours to come your way either at home or on the work front . |
| 12 | In the house example , we can choose the order in which we see the parts of the building but we surely can not see occluded portions , and we surely can not look up to see a thatched roof — because that 's the kind of roof we want to see — when the roof is tiled . |
| 13 | Namely that between nineteen seventy nine and nineteen eighty one , ten thousand working days were lost at G C H Q and we just can not run the risk of anything like that ever happening again . |
| 14 | ‘ The plain fact is we are a small independent company , and we just can not afford to spend 2m ( pounds ) on new printing machines . |
| 15 | But we need not only to learn how to look at the world with the eyes of a Mexican Indian — and I hardly think that Lawrence succeeded — and we certainly can not afford to stop there . |
| 16 | And he still can not resist , all these years later , a spiky dig — ‘ but most gratifying of all was that the journalists who condemned me were proved so utterly wrong ’ . |
| 17 | I have been in rescue for 15 years , but I just can not explain that feeling . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I would have loved to have been there but I just can not get around now . |
| 19 | But I really can not remember the last time I went out and bought something new from a retailer — other than test kits and silicon sealant . |
| 20 | ‘ But you simply can not make tackling errors at crucial times and expect to win . ’ |
| 21 | In the house example , we can choose the order in which we see the parts of the building but we surely can not see occluded portions , and we surely can not look up to see a thatched roof — because that 's the kind of roof we want to see — when the roof is tiled . |
| 22 | We are sympathetic but we also can not ride roughshod over the concerns of the local community . |
| 23 | So we are sympathetic towards this er provision of student accommodation , but we also can not ride roughshod over the concerns of the local community . |
| 24 | Not only are they incapable of regrowing the stings , but they also can not live without them . |
| 25 | Just as workers in the mass production system they too have at their command machines endowed with amazing powers ( such as computers ) , but they too can not alter their environment significantly . |
| 26 | The experiments that were set the ‘ preconceptual ’ children would offer no problems to the children at this stage , but they still can not engage in abstract thinking . |
| 27 | But they STILL can not say that radiation is to blame . |