Example sentences of "[prep] something [pers pn] can [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of teleology , however , Epicurus advocated the existence of chance and free will , partly because , like Aristotle , he argued that you can not blame or punish a man for something he can not help doing , but also because he believed that there is a kind of spontaneity in men ( and possibly in animals ) that is manifested in our apparent freedom , to originate actions . |
| 2 | ‘ If you do not know where you are then you 're quite likely to wander on to something you can not cope with . ’ |
| 3 | Then the hunter does not waste its time on something it can not eat , and the hunted saves its secretions . |
| 4 | This is identical with the reaction of primitives to a fetich : it is animated by something they can not understand . |
| 5 | This is particularly likely in a horse who shies suddenly when he is frightened by something he can not identify . |