Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 Please note that I can not undertake to reply to individual queries from readers however I will do my best to answer questions from readers through the medium of this column .
2 Please note that I can not undertake to reply to individual queries from readers however I will do my best to answer all questions from readers through the medium of this column .
3 For example , being kept awake by a sufferer who can not sleep having to be continually watchful of someone who may do dangerous things , and having to cope with continual questioning or aggression may become unbearable .
4 There is an enormous variety in the urban experience that this book can not hope to explore to any great extent : different cities have been subject to contrasting pressures and have responded in different ways .
5 To be summarily told that he has now dropped in the county pecking-order , that he can not expect to graduate to the captaincy , came as a shock .
6 The story of a Covent Garden flower-girl being transformed into a glittering social success has a fairy-tale quality that audiences can not fail to respond to .
7 Your counsel on all matters concerning the march carries such weight that the King can not fail to listen to you . ’
8 We can not guarantee to deliver to the person .
9 When one turns to Katsaris 's Mendelssohn piano concertos some of the same problems of self-conscious technical prowess remain , but one can not help responding to the sheer verve and impetus of the playing .
10 She can not have failed to be aware of the situation as the land reeked of the smells and both water and land were often strikingly coloured .
11 Those who can not afford to go to many concerts or buy records , or who live far from the centres of music-making , can hear much good orchestral music by radio .
12 The engineering and steel employers ' federations say most of their members can not afford to stick to the original schedule for boosting eastern wages .
13 I can not remember getting to my feet .
14 He nodded , ‘ I can not remember driving to my home .
15 No one must be false to that oath , but in order to return a collective verdict , the verdict of you all , there must necessarily be argument , and a certain amount of give and take and adjustment of views within the scope of the oath you have taken , and it makes for great public inconvenience and expense if jurors can not agree owing to the unwillingness of one of their number to listen to the arguments of the rest .
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