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

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1	" Men go to sea before they know the unhappiness of that way of life ; and when they have come to know it they can not escape from it because it is then too late to choose another profession " .
2	He failed the test and the reward has gone to someone else and it is not , Anna said fiercely to herself , pressing her palms to her closed eyes , it is not fair that he should never know what he can not do , that he should always set himself targets he ca n't achieve , that he should never be allowed to progress .
3	to get the job done which we can not recover .
4	Rang up Doreen and told her I can not come after all .
5	2.1 It is , of course , self-evident that once an injured person has died he himself can not receive damages and any award of damages must be received by other persons .
6	I do not mind being told what I can not do , so long as I can accede to an adequate reason why .
7	W H Smith said : ‘ We have sold out everywhere and the manufacturers have told us we can not have any more before Christmas . ’
8	‘ Tell him I can not see anyone , ’ said a voice from inside the study .
9	With an obligation , daily , to fill a whole page of the paper on motor racing , and on race weekends , three or four , their poor , harried reporters are frequently forced to invent what they can not find out .
10	I would not ask them to fund anything they can not see with their own eyes . ’
11	‘ Guidelines tell us we can not transmit an undue amount of bad language .
12	And so , when you come to the bible and you read the account of Jesus here on the earth , turning the water into wine , of Jesus stilling the storm , when you into the old testament and you read accounts there of the children of Israel , of the me , of the tremendous miracles that were performed by Jehovah , God for them well of course , there 's a natural explanation to it , because you ca n't do these things , there are natural laws that stop you doing them you can not take a glass of water , even if you 're God , you can not take it and make it into a glass of wine instantly , it 's got natural processes to go through .
13	You ca n't hate what you can not touch , I ca n't even feel what most people think of as despair .
14	‘ Shall I tell her I can not marry her ? ’ laughed the soldier .
15	Though others envy what they can not give , for had the gift been theirs it had not here thus grown .
16	And , indeed , as befits someone who 's hovering on the edge of idolatry , even her vocabulary has gone a little pagan ‘ Till dieted by thee I grow mature in knowledge as the Gods who all things know ’ , and then what I think is a brilliant touch on Milton 's part , the very next line says to us ‘ Though others envy what they can not give ’ .
17	Art must select to make its patterns , and must ignore what it can not use ; and it can use a great deal .
18	To see what you can not hear , particularly consonant sounds , improves speech reception wonderfully .
19	‘ Can it rule what it can not control ? ’
20	You can work on a presumption , a prebonderance of probabilities or whatever , but I mean what you can not do is take it that it 's absolutely fact that that is going to happen .
21	Yet here it is said , the slave must be freely given what he can not claim for himself ; what no one would even claim for him .
22	‘ You know they say the Irish , they ignore what they can not hit or drink . ’
23	Do the souls of the dead stand behind some invisible mirror , watching us who can not see them ?
24	But then no foreigner is ever going to tell me I can not walk on my country 's hills .
25	‘ John , you 're not trying ! ’ and you look at your feet in the mirror , ugly , unable to do the things which you want them to do , or see your body collapse in the middle when you know that it should be firm and rigid — and see them all , even the children , doing something , following what you can not follow .