Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [not/n't] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can not remember the last time I had a proper meal without having a nice drop of wine to go with it . |
| 2 | I was suffering from a cold , the first for years — in fact I can not recall the last time I had a cold — and because the weather was nice the village was extremely busy with tourists and lots of traffic and people knocking on my door . |
| 3 | You can not treat the second that way ; it simply affirms for some people a principle it denies to others . |
| 4 | It is unlikely , though , that we can handle all these if we can not make the first distinction systematically ( and the alert reader can no doubt find mistakes of this sort within this book ) . |
| 5 | All three do their best under Penny Ciniewicz 's rather heavy-handed direction , but they can not beat a first play that has just got too much to say . |
| 6 | That means he can not meet the next payment on his van and could lose his whole business . |
| 7 | He can not enter a second time into his mother 's womb and be born , can he ? |
| 8 | but he can not sue the third party if ownership has passed to such third person by reason of exceptions to the rule nemo dat quod non habet , e.g . |