Example sentences of "i can not do " in BNC.

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1 As he explained : ‘ My starting point has to be a vision , otherwise I can not do anything .
2 When I am out all night , the next day I can not do anything . ’
3 I can not do it , ’ Alida Thorne said , desperately .
4 I can not do it , and there is an end . ’
5 But I can not do so .
6 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
7 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 .
8 Gilmore replied , ‘ I can not do much more than say that what was said was absolute nonsense . ’
9 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 ) :
10 I do not mind being told what I can not do , so long as I can accede to an adequate reason why .
11 I honestly feel I can not do any more to prove myself .
12 I can not do a good job from a chair on a table !
13 But it 's all for the rest of my life , an important fact for me , and to say , OK , I do n't need it any more , it has to be a very strong and bad change inside Kirov , I will be so upset or so unoptimistic or so helpless that I will feel I can not do anything more .
14 But although I can not do so systematically at this juncture some limited anticipatory comments may be in order .
15 I can not do justice to the disagreeable impression that this man , one Broadhurst , had upon me …
16 Yet I feel I can not do that without offending you , Li Yuan .
17 I can not do it without you , ’ said Grainne .
18 I can not do it yet but I am trying to come round to it .
19 I can not do that because of my belief in the preeminence and uniqueness of Christ .
20 and sweepers who I always represented , and though I am now retired , I can not do without them .
21 What I can not do is go around and do a full enquiry to find out what the position is , an enquiry indeed might be difficult , because you may have found these people but actually pinning down er to who does it and what actually happens may be more difficult .
22 They 've been engaged for a year , and it was decided the wedding could take place during August , when there is just routine spraying and pruning to be done , well before the vendange itself , when I can not do without him . ’
23 I have learned at last , and bitterly , that I can not do this . ’
24 I can not do this . "
25 I can not do as I like in the house .
26 I can not do anything else except for saying my paternoster and my creed to Christ , for my sins … " )
27 What I can not do er is advise you on how I would score one sector against another in respect of that because again , er we have n't looked at that in sufficient detail .
28 I can not do that with a long barrelled weapon .
29 and you find erm people like Lynn you know , bless her , who now , who is n't too bad when she 's not too bad and is n't too good when she 's not too good , you know , and it is such a very very Not only can you not put anything visibly in in common with everyone that 's got it , even the people that have got it ca n't say I can not do this period , they say oh well I 'm not too good now but maybe last week or maybe next week
30 there 's a thousand pound he said , you know , if you can make it right sort of over the next month but he said basically I can not do anything until erm the end of February , he said you come in the end of February he said and then we can start to sort it out , he said I ca n't do anything for you until then .
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