Example sentences of "if i can [not/n't] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 How an I going to take any wickets at all if I can not float my deceptively slow left-armers out of the darkness of the trees at seven o'clock on a late September evening ?
2 Charles 's following ( populus ) then swore " in its own language , the lingua romana " : " If Louis keeps the oath which he swears to his brother Charles , and my lord Charles for his part does not keep his , if I can not make him refrain [ from that action ] , then neither I nor any other whom I can make refrain will give him any aid against Louis " .
3 ‘ At least I have given you your past even if I can not give you your future .
4 I am sorry if I can not fulfil your request on this point .
5 And if I can not rid myself of it I will just have to go into the service and begin to root out the cause .
6 If I can not persuade her to keep you on , I promise I shall arrange matters for you in some other way . ’
7 Sometimes I feel as if I can nae stand it
8 ’ And if I can nae manage I 'll sing myself tae sleep in Central Station till the trains start rinnin' in the mornin' . ’
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