Example sentences of "i can [not/n't] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I regret that I can not spell out part by part and line by line exactly what I want to achieve . |
| 2 | I can not over-emphasise how important it is for cyclists , that any barrier should allow enough room to pass through without dismounting . |
| 3 | But we have nothing against foreign investment in British companies , and I can not think why the Hon. Gentleman should take that line . |
| 4 | I can not think why Mrs Talbot never chose to have any herself , there is really something special about a poultry yard . ’ |
| 5 | I can not think why . |
| 6 | ‘ I can not think why anyone would want to do this to me , ’ she said . |
| 7 | I can not examine here the way in which this view of religious knowledge can be paralleled within other traditions ( in the eighth century A.D. , for instance , there was a debate within Islam along lines similar to the sixteenth-century Christian debate over faith and works ) . |
| 8 | You can walk away but I can not walk away . |
| 9 | ‘ I can not walk away unless you ask me to go . ’ |
| 10 | A spokesman for the company , which provided cooling and water tanks , tanks for the pavilion said last night : ‘ I can not comment further because the situation is legally delicate . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I can not comment any further , except to say that I have taken legal advice on this matter . ’ |
| 12 | As for the second part of my hon. Friend 's supplementary question , I can not anticipate entirely what will happen , but the reduction in mortgage interest rates will obviously have a beneficial effect . |
| 13 | Because I am a writer caught up willy-nilly in the polluted air of our own times , because I can not avoid entirely the language , assumptions , behaviour and weirdly chiliastic bombast so typical of a corrupted age , I can force myself to imagine by what tormented mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the cerebral subtleties of Keynsian economics to the animal crudities of purchasing unsatisfactory and momentary sexual release from a cheap little whore . |
| 14 | I have tried to bring him to me and failed and now I can not hope any longer . |
| 15 | I know that I can not endure alone . |
| 16 | I can not emphasise enough that you should let the patient tell you , through his symptoms , what needs to be done . |
| 17 | I can not emphasise enough the importance of daydreams for the writer in you . |
| 18 | I can not offer more , nor with better will . ’ |
| 19 | For his own successor he suggested Rohde , " the ablest of all the younger philologists I have known " , and with a disarming naivety he added : " I can not express how profoundly my life here in Basle would be alleviated by the presence of my best friend . " |
| 20 | I can not stand here chattering , it is a cold morning . |
| 21 | I can not stand here and guarantee that we can halt that long-term consolidation of holdings in agriculture . |
| 22 | I can not stand here and say , ’ You will not get your Bill through unless you do something about victimisation . ’ |
| 23 | The Word I can not set supremely high : |
| 24 | I can not conceive how a breach of this kind can be remedied . |
| 25 | I can not do not think I am can be mistaken in my belief that our meeting was also important interesting to you , and that however much you may value your seclusion |
| 26 | But I can not do so . |
| 27 | But although I can not do so systematically at this juncture some limited anticipatory comments may be in order . |
| 28 | I can not do better than compare a shoal of bream to a troop of soldiers : a compact , neat , orderly and efficient body of fish that patrol a water when the business of feeding is foremost in their minds . |
| 29 | I can not do better than quote a semi-paragraph from The Grail Legend by Emma Jung and Marie Louise Von Franz ( English translation 1971 ) : |
| 30 | I can not tell when I am asleep |