Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] can not [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But then no foreigner is ever going to tell me I can not walk on my country 's hills . |
| 2 | ‘ I want to know what is behind this first , ’ he snapped , ‘ because for the life of me I can not understand why a man in his position should want to take up with the likes of you . |
| 3 | For me I can not remember who said it , someone far wiser than far wiser than me but somebody said a judge is civilization by the way he treats the |
| 4 | She never met any men until she met the young man whom I can not think of as my father . |
| 5 | Without them I can not release the restless spirit in my bones . |
| 6 | They did not have electricity , it would be oil lamps and some of them I can not mind when gas would come . |
| 7 | No I I can not recall . |
| 8 | I I can not see that it can have because it was n't actually put to him but he did mention twice in his judgement that he was aware of this new material and as Neil Bennet said , we 'll have to wait and see what that is . |
| 9 | I I can not I I can not believe that it is w within the the standards of the conservative party that I joined , that this sort of diary writing , gossipy , pseudo history er is part of the convention . |
| 10 | I who can not get a wink of sleep |
| 11 | I am prepared to accept that anyone who knows me may dislike me , but when someone who can not dislike me because they do n't know me , attacks me , I collapse inside , I lose eloquence , I get frightened , sometimes I cry . |
| 12 | Someone who can not predict what will happen after he or she takes the first drink . |
| 13 | I myself can not leave London at the present time . |
| 14 | I have several directories on my hard disk which I can not delete/erase . |
| 15 | For I am surprised and enchanted often by some quality which I can not detect . |
| 16 | Something inside me which I can not stop is whirling me faster and faster past beauty into oblivion . |
| 17 | He pointed out that although my title was an attractive one — since there was such a thing as a ‘ servile ’ society , namely a totalitarian one — the reader would assume that I was using the word liberal in the modern sense , which was certainly not my intention , He then went meticulously through my argument , and it almost pained me that he should take so much trouble over a work which I can not think it deserved . |
| 18 | Moreover , you know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I can not bear [ the flute ] . |
| 19 | I see the error — yet I can not correct it without overthrowing all ‘ rules and regulations ’ , which I can not persuade myself to do , even in a work of fiction . |
| 20 | Now it was a rule and the custom at the time that any of the staff could impose a fine on the spot and in this circumstance Fagan imposed a fine of 10 " ackers " — that is 10 piastres , which I can not remember what the value was at the time , but let us say it was something in the order of 5 . |
| 21 | But to say that the half-yearly payments were to continue till the whole sum of £2,090 19s. , ‘ and interest thereon , ’ should have been fully paid and satisfied , would be to introduce very important words into the agreement which are not there , and of which I can not say that they are necessarily implied . |
| 22 | At the time she did not publicly disclose why , saying only , ‘ I am leaving for reasons which I can not say . |
| 23 | We rested quietly and most comfortably in Sligachan Inn , than which I can not imagine a better retreat in the early summer of late autumn , either before or after the great throng , who , coming from north and south to it in the height of the tourist season , make it a place of stir . |
| 24 | I have been keeping tropical fish for some twenty years , but for the last two months I have been cursed with a problem which I can not solve . |
| 25 | She really has this er attitude which I can not understand because erm a a as I think it was Al Reeve said , you know , erm some people ca n't bear children , we ca n't , but we like them but if you have actually borne children , you are in other words a mother , you 've got ta have a attitude , not only to children in general but to your children in particular , which is very very difficult for er a male to understand and a non-father , it 's gon na be very very difficult cos I personally do n't have any children at all and therefore it is very very difficult for me to even comprehend but given that I can erm I can sympathize with something I do not comprehend it must be monumentally difficult for her |
| 26 | Soon afterwards I became openly rebellious at school and , after some final misdemeanour which I can not recall but suspect to have been trivial , I was asked to leave . |
| 27 | For some reason , which I can not recall , bombs were jettisoned on the way home — we landed back at base after a seven hour 30 minute flight . |
| 28 | This contrasts with information volunteered by an Irishman , the accuracy of which I can not guarantee . |
| 29 | We 're following up much of the documentation that we found and hope it could lead to other things which I can not reveal . |
| 30 | We 're following up much of the documentation that we found and hope it could lead to other things which I can not reveal . |