Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [pers pn] can [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For me I can not remember who said it , someone far wiser than far wiser than me but somebody said a judge is civilization by the way he treats the |
| 2 | ‘ I want to know what is behind this first , ’ he snapped , ‘ because for the life of me I can not understand why a man in his position should want to take up with the likes of you . |
| 3 | They did not have electricity , it would be oil lamps and some of them I can not mind when gas would come . |
| 4 | But if you are a farmer like me you can not avoid winter , whatever your age or physical condition . |
| 5 | In it we can not go to any of the extremes because we are aware of them all . |
| 6 | How many such stories lie hidden from us we can not tell ; but we can be sure that he reflects many of the aspirations of his day : as a merchant on land and sea , in the Baltic , the North Sea and the Mediterranean ; as a pilgrim to the shrines of England and Scotland , to Saint-Gilles , to St Peter and to Jerusalem , he accomplished what many others were doing , and far more aspired to . |
| 7 | Without them I can not release the restless spirit in my bones . |
| 8 | But we we can not It seems to me we can not end up with a blank sheet of paper , and draw a set of criteria up which says it it can be anywhere here . |
| 9 | Frodo perceives the colours of Cerin Amroth accordingly as at once ‘ fresh ’ and familiar , with a light on them he can not identify : ‘ On the land of Lórien there was no stain . ’ |
| 10 | She misses you Elsie and sometimes I want to say to her she can not miss you more than I do . |
| 11 | The labelling matters ; without it they can not rebuild the alien 's spaceship . |
| 12 | They are choosing to do this because they have learned that without it they can not sustain their good intentions . |
| 13 | Do n't skimp on it , because the experience of great Christians has been that without it we can not grow into Christian maturity . |
| 14 | As the Archbishop of York observed : ‘ they have shown that it [ planning ] should embrace the whole country , and that without it we can not make the best use of the limited space in our small island ’ ( p. 160 ) . |
| 15 | Without it I can not proceed . ’ |
| 16 | Without it he can not attain to full powers either of learning or of teaching in any . |
| 17 | Their defence is necessary to our defence and without us they can not defend themselves . |
| 18 | Without having that understanding of what emotions are and what they are doing to us we can not analyse the way in which emotions disturb our balance and what that should teach us about ourselves and our relationship with the world . |
| 19 | But what I do say is I am a trustee I am a trustee not of farmer 's land not of your land Mr , not of your land Mr not of your land Mr every person in Leicestershire owns that land , they have got a mark and I 'll tell you sir four thousand five hundred signatures made in one weekend are saying to us you are a trustee of our land , it 's not your land , our land I keep hearing , it 's our land it 's not our land it 's the people of Leicestershire 's land and what the people of Leicestershire land are saying to us sir , they 're saying to us you can not continue this barbaric killing of foxes . |
| 20 | And , and how it got the name Hole , was there 's supposed to be gold buried somewhere up there , but what quantity or anything about it I can not tell you . |