Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [pron] can [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Tell him I can not see anyone , ’ said a voice from inside the study . |
| 2 | ‘ Guidelines tell us we can not transmit an undue amount of bad language . |
| 3 | Though others envy what they can not give , for had the gift been theirs it had not here thus grown . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ You know they say the Irish , they ignore what they can not hit or drink . ’ |