Example sentences of "he [adv] can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Jay 's shooting up so much that he , he , he just can not put weight on . |
| 2 | And he still can not resist , all these years later , a spiky dig — ‘ but most gratifying of all was that the journalists who condemned me were proved so utterly wrong ’ . |
| 3 | Let us make sure that for the next two weeks he still can not prove . ’ |
| 4 | Absolon 's portrait thus ends with particular bathos when it transpires that he still can not escape the vulgar facts of the body 's nature , try as he might : This second instance of a marked word in the Miller 's Tale encourages a recall of the context of the first , Nicholas 's grabbing of Alison , and thus even before it has been dramatically explicated completes the second fabliau triangle , Nicholas — Alison — Absolon , which forms a symmetrical reflection of the first , Nicholas — Alison — John . |
| 5 | And even if the driver sees something on the line ahead of him , he usually can not stop in time . |
| 6 | He also can not cite the sources for many of the bits he is allowed to reveal , with the result that they can not be independently checked . |
| 7 | He also can not afford to get pulled out of position in the line-out . |
| 8 | He probably can not accept another man in John 's bed , and the puppet reminds him of that . |
| 9 | He probably can not afford to get his fill . |
| 10 | He really can not act at all . |
| 11 | He really can not have it both ways . |
| 12 | Sometimes it is this which is the patient 's most obvious symptom : comprehension of speech is very good and spontaneous speech can be well-articulated , grammatical and fluent , except that every so often the patient stops speaking because he simply can not find the word he wants to say . |