Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [pers pn] can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dearest Mother and Dad I am sorry I can not write letter to-night will write to-morrow night . |
| 2 | ‘ I am afraid I can not comment at all , ’ said Sir Donald Hall , deputy chairman of GEC-Marconi . |
| 3 | I am afraid I can not bear just yet to go back to Baldersdale . |
| 4 | ‘ I am afraid I can not say any more . |
| 5 | I say I 'm sorry I can not understand a word you 're saying . |
| 6 | The doctor said , ‘ I 'm afraid we can not hope now . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm afraid we can not have any of this . |
| 8 | And more than that I 'm afraid I can not tell people . |
| 9 | Always going on about the Fate of the Graduate Wife and how she 's fed up being a cabbage — well as far as I 'm concerned I can not see the call for langwidge . |
| 10 | I have been talking to the whites many years about the lands in question , and it is strange they can not understand me ; the country they claim belonged to my father , and when he died it was given to me and my people , and I will not leave it until I am compelled to . |
| 11 | As no one group is self-sufficient it can not meet the needs of its members . |
| 12 | But it is infinitely worse if you are so divided that it is apparent you can not take any action at all . |