Example sentences of "of [pron] [pron] can [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ 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 .
2 They did not have electricity , it would be oil lamps and some of them I can not mind when gas would come .
3 Prosecutors examine the police case as a complete product , in the making of which they can not interfere .
4 Further , there seems no reason to suppose that mental events do not also occupy space-as do other events of which we can not specify the minute space or the minute and myriad spaces which they occupy .
5 And it is something of which we can not give or receive too much .
6 In fact the mentality of the hearing is set to define dumbness as belonging to any vocal barrage of which one can not make heads or tails .
7 But to say that the half-yearly payments were to continue till the whole sum of £2,090 19s. , ‘ and interest thereon , ’ should have been fully paid and satisfied , would be to introduce very important words into the agreement which are not there , and of which I can not say that they are necessarily implied .
8 This contrasts with information volunteered by an Irishman , the accuracy of which I can not guarantee .
9 A corporation has an artificial persona and consequently there are certain allegations in respect of which it can not sue .
10 but of what we can not tell , for they come to represent the depths of feeling into which we can not peer .
11 ( 1987 : 29 ) I would only add that the value of what we can not understand is only recognized by reference to what we can .
12 They rooted out those folk who were not … ordinary , and banished them from Minginish. people are afraid of what they can not understand . ’
13 There can be few of us who can not make a daisy chain with our eyes closed — and who could forget the daisy-spangled downs and pastures where we loved to picnic ?
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