Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Mummy loves me but can not look after me any more . |
| 2 | My mummy loves me but can not look after me any more . |
| 3 | My mummy loves me but can not look after me any more . |
| 4 | They were all related to the general principle , said to have been established with the introduction of legal aid in 1950 , that ‘ … legal services should be available to those who need them but can not afford to pay for them . ’ |
| 5 | It is no earthly use appointing a particular officer if the childen do not know how to complain to him or her and can not do so . |
| 6 | It hardly suits disabled children who have to learn about life as they experience it and can not recover something that they never possessed . |
| 7 | Thus the double layer moves more slowly than the average and so yet more growth layers pile up behind it and can not pass . |
| 8 | Recognise in time , perhaps only from the despair of repeated failure , that you yourself did not cause the disease , can not control it and can not cure it and that in time you may need to surrender the fight and hand over the care of the sufferer 's addictive disease to his or her own appropriate Anonymous Fellowship . |
| 9 | Enjoying , we spontaneously welcome awareness ; bored and listless , we can not without effort summon it up ; disliking , we withdraw from it ; suffering , we recoil from it but can not escape it . |