Example sentences of "[pron] can [not/n't] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Mu ( 4.0 ) and Iota ( 4.7 ) are double , but I can not separate them even with × 20 . |
| 2 | I can not leave her Elsie . |
| 3 | I can not leave her in this bastille . |
| 4 | Certainly I can not deduce which goals to pursue from the facts to be faced ; but will it not be a causally necessary condition of obeying ‘ Face facts ’ that I let myself be moved , at least incipiently , in the direction in which the facing of the facts would cause me to move ? |
| 5 | I can not think what came over me as I was brought up chapel like you but unfortunately my father was a miner and not a grocer . |
| 6 | I can not think what his poetry would be like . ’ |
| 7 | I can not think what the Riding , but not only the Riding , will be without him . |
| 8 | ‘ I can not think what 's come over Brian , ’ she said . |
| 9 | PAMELA : Sir , I am so well satisfied with Mr. Belville 's affection for me and his well-known honour that I can not think myself obliged to any gentleman who should endeavour to give me a less opinion of either . |
| 10 | Not a change of nature , I hope , and believe : still , a development as the World calls it , though I can not think it is development for the better . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I can not think it is serious . |
| 13 | For indeed I can not think my fault so great in this matter that was a point of conscience with me as to stand in need of your forgiveness . |
| 14 | I can not decide anything she thought . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | ‘ I have the problem ’ , the young man replied , ‘ that I can not manoeuvre my horns through your narrow door . ’ |
| 17 | As do — but surely I can not mean it ! — lugworms . |
| 18 | I can not credit it . |
| 19 | Even the interview system is not an ideal one — once again you 're having to sell yourself — and if you 're a character actor like I am I can not show myself without being somebody else . |
| 20 | ‘ I am strength and power and light and speed , Taliesin , ’ he said , ‘ but even I can not protect you from the Time Fire . |
| 21 | I can not dignify him with the name of " physician " … should send to their doom many poor souls who might , with the proper treatment , recover ! " |
| 22 | ‘ The potential cost to Woolwich of refusing to pay in terms of damage to reputation and interest liabilities may have been commercially unacceptable but I can not regard it as involving duress on the part of the revenue . |
| 23 | Where I can not advise I can condole and communicate , which doubles joy , halves sorrow . |
| 24 | So far as the organization of your operations here is concerned , I can not congratulate you . ’ |
| 25 | And yet I can not refuse it . ’ |
| 26 | I can not chuck them at the last minute . |
| 27 | She replied , ‘ Oh no , I was never allowed to cry and I can not relieve myself ’ . |
| 28 | On the one hand , she finds it true that ‘ the definition of ‘ Almighty ’ means that there is no evil out of which good can not be brought' , while on the same page she writes that , ‘ if those theologies who assert that God is in total control of His creation are right , I can not worship Him ’ . |
| 29 | Of all the species of dog in the world I can not place him with ownership of a Yorkie . |
| 30 | Item No 2 : I am certain that these are not tweezers , but I can not identify them . |