Example sentences of "i can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Mu ( 4.0 ) and Iota ( 4.7 ) are double , but I can not separate them even with × 20 . |
| 2 | A substantial number of these students have either been speakers of RP or had accents only slightly different from it , and their usual reaction to being told to use for the vowel at the end of ‘ easy ’ , ‘ busy ’ has been one of puzzlement and frustration ; like them , I can not equate this vowel with the vowel of ‘ bit ’ . |
| 3 | God can not be the exclusive Father and I can not ascribe exclusive divinity to Jesus . |
| 4 | Mother you do not see , I can not harbour . |
| 5 | I can not leave her Elsie . |
| 6 | I can not leave Decca without drooling over its ‘ Historic ’ recordings — Backhaus/Clemens Krauss , LSO/Krips , Monteux , VPO/Kleiber , Knappertsbusch , Amadeus/Curzon/Brain ; Della Casa , Flagstad , Julius Katchen , Rachmaninov and the incomparable Rosenkavalier ( Jurinac , Reining , Weber , Gueden , Poell , VPO/Kleiber ) . |
| 7 | ‘ But I can not leave Edward on his own , ’ protested the eleven-year-old . |
| 8 | One objection , however , is so obvious that I can not leave the matter there . |
| 9 | ‘ But I can not leave the children alone . ’ |
| 10 | If I want to leave a room , I must do so by the limited number of means available to me , which will be by the door or the windows ; if they are locked , I can not leave . |
| 11 | But of course I can not leave such a place open to — anyone . ’ |
| 12 | I can not leave Angharad alone . ’ |
| 13 | I can not leave her in this bastille . |
| 14 | But I can not leave the children . ’ |
| 15 | I can not urinate … |
| 16 | I regret that I can not spell out part by part and line by line exactly what I want to achieve . |
| 17 | Certainly I can not deduce which goals to pursue from the facts to be faced ; but will it not be a causally necessary condition of obeying ‘ Face facts ’ that I let myself be moved , at least incipiently , in the direction in which the facing of the facts would cause me to move ? |
| 18 | I can not feel that I am truly mistress here , while your mother is in residence . |
| 19 | Upon the first point I can not feel any doubt . |
| 20 | Yet I can not feel that Adam was to blame . |
| 21 | I can not feel that we had been negligent , had we been dealing with another man . |
| 22 | Yet I can not relinquish the Situation without expressing my Obligation for your appointment though the Emolument fell short of what I was taught to expect . |
| 23 | My right hon. Friend the Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup ( Mr. Heath ) echoed Harold Macmillan 's theme when he spoke to the House on 28 October 1971 : ’ I can not over-emphasise the importance the scale and quality of the decision whether we are going to decide that Western Europe should now move along the path to real unity our decision tonight will vitally affect the sort of world in which we British people and many generations to come will live their lives ’ . |
| 24 | I can not over-emphasise how important it is for cyclists , that any barrier should allow enough room to pass through without dismounting . |
| 25 | I can not think of my own knowledge of the physical world in terms of my dispositions to behave , but only as my dispositions , construed as operating in the world of which |
| 26 | ‘ I can not think , ’ remarked Russell , ‘ Why laziness should have had such a bad press . |
| 27 | Not a change of nature , I hope , and believe : still , a development as the World calls it , though I can not think it is development for the better . |
| 28 | I can not think what came over me as I was brought up chapel like you but unfortunately my father was a miner and not a grocer . |
| 29 | I can not think when I have enjoyed a visitor so much . ’ |
| 30 | I would like to have a family one day but I can not think about next week , let alone something as important as that , ’ she added with already familiar coyness . |