Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I eat I can not help but notice the Frenchman attending to the pig ; he has now cut the animal 's throat and has set alight to the straw , the flames and smoke engulfing the unfortunate pig . |
| 2 | I regret I can not give the correct pronunciation of the Gaelic names of the mountains : I never mastered them , adopting instead roughly similar English equivalents ; thus , for example , Ceathreamhnan to me was Chrysanthemum … |
| 3 | I regret I can not give the petitioner relief . |
| 4 | But I regret I can not agree with some of the reasoning in the judgments . |
| 5 | You must forgive me , Mrs O'Dell , I fear I can not stay for coffee — I have many other calls upon my time . |
| 6 | And I fear I can not answer that question to anyone 's satisfaction . |
| 7 | ‘ I fear I can not help you . |
| 8 | ‘ I fear I can not help you , ’ the voice concluded smoothly . |
| 9 | I mean I can not believe that the guy |
| 10 | Does not he have a powerful point when he says : ’ The new system is run by accountants who do n't have to sit across the table from the patient and say I can not treat you' ’ until the new financial year ? |
| 11 | It howls you can not say whether out of agony or joy . |
| 12 | ‘ I realise you can not afford to run all the time but , that said , it should still be the first thing you have a look at , ’ he reasoned . |
| 13 | Bosses of the Tory-controlled authority say she can not stay in the school because she lives outside the priority area . |
| 14 | If we say we can not afford it , the reply is that we pay out more and more millions of pounds in unemployment benefit . |
| 15 | There has been an increase in suitable candidates , with women becoming more highly qualified through educational opportunities — businesses realise they can not afford to cut themselves off from 50 per cent of the market eg IBM , Unilever . |
| 16 | But Palestinians say they can not return to the Arab-Israeli talks until the issue of the deportation of 415 Palestinians is resolved . |
| 17 | The RUC and Army Press Office say they can not confirm reports circulating within the security forces that single 7.62 shells were found after both attacks . |
| 18 | BUT there is a dark shadow B on the horizon that these B bright , articulate 18-year-olds say they can not countenance : the rise of the extreme right and the spreading of its racist , fascist message across Europe . |
| 19 | Of course , some dieters say they can not help bingeing on such foods . |
| 20 | They budgeted for a pay award in line with inflation and while welcoming the ‘ well deserved ’ rise in teachers ' salaries say they can not fund it without cutting school budgets . |
| 21 | Regarding the diabetic specialist nurse , yes , of course we would welcome a special unit , but that does seem a bit extravagant when they say they can not find enough money for one nurse . |
| 22 | Factory bonuses have been replaced by compulsory pay deductions to buy government bonds , and many enterprises say they can not buy the bonds because they no longer have any cash . |
| 23 | Sainsbury hope to build a store on United Bus company land at Grange Road , but owners Caldaire say they can not afford to sell the land because it has to give the Government a fixed percentage of the sale . |
| 24 | Many families do n't have a car and some say they can not afford taxi fares . |
| 25 | Association chief executive Frank Clark said : ‘ We say we wo n't give in to the IRA and yet the police say they can not guarantee the safety of a manager at a football match . ’ |
| 26 | Dreams beneath sleep it can not break . |
| 27 | The truth is bland : Mr Major will call an election if the opinion polls suggest he can not lose . |
| 28 | And he was fain to acknowledge the tenant 's insistence that the bargain was sacrosanct : ‘ I can not much saie against that ; but yet I perceaue I shalbe a losser still by this bargaine , thowghe I can not tell the reason why ’ More prosaically , landownership was hedged about by varying degrees of limitation resulting from the security of customary tenures , accompanied as often as not by inelasticity of rents . |
| 29 | ‘ How they were done I can not imagine … ‘ |
| 30 | In the case of statements made in Parliament , as at present advised I can not foresee that any statement other than the statement of the minister or other promoter of the Bill is likely to meet these criteria . |