Example sentences of "can not [verb] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most mentally-ill people are being looked after in the community anyway , by relatives and friends who can not bring themselves to have the people they love locked away . |
| 2 | ( I can not bring myself to follow the grotesque habit which Methodists seem to have learned from the Labour Party of dropping the definite article and so ‘ Conference does this or that ’ never ‘ The Conference . ’ ) |
| 3 | Or suppose that I am eating escargots for the first time and can not bring myself to forget the disgustingly slimy look and feel of snails in the garden . |
| 4 | Betty Rizzo suggests that Leapor 's metaphor is a sign of her limitations as a poet ; she can not bring herself to write the simple word ‘ mayfly ’ [ Rizzo ] . |
| 5 | If a creditor has levied and completed execution the debentureholders can not compel him to restore the money , nor , until the charge has crystallised , can he be restrained from levying execution . |
| 6 | The prosecutor may direct policemen to carry out inquiries and interview witnesses , but he can not deputise them to interrogate the suspect , a task which he must perform himself . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ This is why Grand Met can not find anyone to take the leases over . |
| 9 | ‘ I can not ask you to become the senior member of the board ; that place I reserve for myself , and there is also Lessing whom you have not met . |
| 10 | Those who can not allow themselves to experience the pain and the guilt that goes with it can not move through to acceptance and therefore some more creative response . |
| 11 | It is a pleasant road that has got trees on either side , I will admit that , but I can not allow anybody to say the loss of two trees , which will be replaced somewhere else , is of greater importance than he decent habitation of a group of human beings |
| 12 | Europe can not allow itself to become the superpowers ’ football . |
| 13 | ‘ General Fakrid , I can not allow you to leave the command vehicle , ’ he stuttered reluctantly . |
| 14 | I mean the erm I still had to have completely new guttering in the summer because you can not get anything to mend the other walls because it 's the wrong side ! |
| 15 | But I can not see it solving the crisis of the socialist left . |
| 16 | Times are changing , but I can not see anybody stopping the world-ranked top four . ’ |
| 17 | If we take a knife to the Bible and cut out the bits which the modern world can not understand we compromise the message which Christianity has to give to society . |