Example sentences of "[subord] he can [not/n't] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ credulous father ’ Gloucester is easily manipulated into setting a guard to catch Edgar ( King Lear , 11. i.17 ) , and Edmund , who has been ‘ sheltering ’ Edgar ( that is , keeping him locked up , where he can not confront his father ) , dupes him into fleeing , so that Gloucester can order him to be pursued and killed ( 56–63 ) . |
| 2 | He notes the self-perpetuating nature of modern mass production : ‘ Thus vast supplies of products come into existence which call forth an artificial demand that is senseless from the perspective of the subject 's culture ’ ( 1968 : 43 ) , and argues that just as academic pursuits such as philology and archaeology , which start with certain aims , may develop as methods creating infinite classificatory refinements for their own sake , so people may become the mere instrument of that which they originally developed : ‘ The infinitely growing supply of objectified spirit places demands upon the subject , creates desires in him , hits him with feelings of individual inadequacy and helplessness , throws him into total relationships from whose impact he can not with-draw , although he can not master their particular contents ’ ( 1968 : 44 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ You know , Comrade Andropov is getting ready for the Party Congress , so he can not receive you at the moment , but you can make a detailed written statement of everything , saying who it is you suspect , and so on and so forth ’ . |
| 4 | It takes a great deal of sensitivity to provide activities which stimulate the patient 's interest , without exhausting him or making him frustrated if he can not achieve what he wants or what you hope for . |
| 5 | After all , why should he consent to be Helena 's fairy-tale prize for curing the King , if he can not love her ? |
| 6 | But if he can not show you have the papers any longer , then he can not prove he was here on the night of the murder . |
| 7 | If he can not spit them out , he swallows them . |
| 8 | If he can not put his clothes on himself , learning to get dressed is a necessary part of his rehabilitation programme . |
| 9 | He is not in a court captivity , he must live wild like the rest , and founder if he can not keep their pace . |
| 10 | But Federal Justice spokesman Viktor Schlumpf said yesterday : ‘ He will lose his resident status if he can not prove he has a professional link here . ’ |
| 11 | If he can not have one , John says , he will ask the German producers , Wieland Schultz-Keil and Chris Severnich , to stand on the wings , whirl their arms and make airplane noises . |
| 12 | At least he is father to the wish , even if he can not guarantee its achievement . |
| 13 | His car may need to be specially adapted , for instance if he can not use his hemiplegic hand to operate controls or the hand brake . |
| 14 | If you have a wide range of social activities , the patient may be able to join in some of them with you , even if he can not resume his former independent interests . |
| 15 | If he can not accept it , can he at least dispatch a team of Scottish Office officials to see matters on the ground and report back to the Scottish Office on the grim situation faced by the islands ? |
| 16 | If he does not enjoy his previous hobbies because he can not achieve his former standards , you can try introducing him to new , different ones . |
| 17 | An observer at a distance from the black hole can measure only the outgoing particles , and he can not correlate them with those that fall into the hole because he can not observe them . |
| 18 | If you give a deaf person the score of a piece by Bach or Mozart , he can learn to see the composition of themes and their recurrence but not why this is so marvellous because he can not feel it . |
| 19 | Even the most experienced police interrogator can not entirely avoid leading questions , simply because he can not know what the witness actually knows or what really happened . |
| 20 | The historian must first personally select the facts that he presents in his narrative because he can not include them all . |
| 21 | We are half-hearted creatures , fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us , like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he can not imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea . |
| 22 | It may arise because he can not imagine his own death . ’ |
| 23 | The child can have his football boots because the words ‘ we ca n't afford it ’ will be linked to the long-gone and not-lamented past : the tyrant can not control against the will of the subject because he can not frighten his people with notions of helplessness and poverty : the employer will have to charm and wheedle his workers if he wants them to work for him : he will have to sing and dance to entertain them : enthuse them with pleasure for their daily toil : they will be paid with the world 's respect , and all around them there will be abundance . |
| 24 | For her son she is pure and nurturing , but also a source of anxiety , since he can not control her sexuality . |
| 25 | If he was involved in competitive sports before , aiming from the start at tournaments and championships places a lot of pressure on the patient , and it may lead to bitter frustration when he can not reach his previous standards as quickly as he might hope . |
| 26 | He ‘ lets go ’ in a frightening tantrum — banging his head , kicking , screaming and yelling — when he can not get his own way , such as when you try to insist on his doing something , refuse his commands or attend to people other than himself at a time when he wants your undivided attention . |
| 27 | There is a problem that way , as he can not take his dogs over the border . |
| 28 | Frodo sees more in them than that , though he can not explain what : |
| 29 | The candidate will start with one version of the law and then gradually veer round to a contradictory version — thus making sure that the right rule is there somewhere , even though he can not pick it out . |
| 30 | But perhaps we have grown over-concerned about the conscious levels of rationality and suppressed for too long the reservoirs of subconscious feeling which the Spirit seems to touch and use when a man prays in tongues , with the result that he is built up , even though he can not understand what he is saying ( I Cor. 14:4 ) . |