Example sentences of "can not [verb] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I feel I 'd like to pack a bag and just go … sometimes you think you ca n't manage for another minute . ’ |
| 2 | Sometimes you think you ca n't manage for another minute . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Poor Dora , she ca n't wait for this week to be over , ’ Melissa remarked . |
| 4 | I ca n't vouch for this hotel but it looked wonderful for a romantic weekend . |
| 5 | said , if I ca n't come for that typewriter then I 've sold it , he said I , I told her if she wanted it she 'd got to come and collect it and he said and nobody asked for it , I said well I know |
| 6 | Unfortunately , household expenses do n't go away just because you 're in hospital or ca n't work for any length of time . |
| 7 | ‘ I have been knocked off by bicycle by a negligent driver and although not seriously injured , I can not work for several weeks . |
| 8 | If lost , the ferret can not survive for any length of time . |
| 9 | This extreme reductionism has failed simply because elements such as Pavlov 's ‘ conditioned reflexes ’ can not account for all aspects of behaviour . |
| 10 | However , the tendency has been to assume that if behaviourist notions can not account for all aspects of language learning it can not account for any . |
| 11 | Clayey deposits are not found below unit I ( refs 6 , 15 ) implying that climatic change alone can not account for these sediments . |
| 12 | Evidently the unique thoroughness of its muster book was complemented by a more rigorous standard of assessment than in most shires , since in 1522 personal wealth there averaged £97 per thousand acres , compared with as little as £61.7 in 1515 and £64 in 1524 , and , mostly having less than average wealth , the sixty-nine additional men roped in in 1522 can not account for this difference . |