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Example sentences of "i can [not/n't] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I ca n't smell the good ones .
2	She said sometimes , of school , ‘ But I ca n't make the right conversation , ’ and it was true .
3	I 'm not , positively not going to mess things up by telling him I ca n't make the only date he has offered .
4	I ca n't reach the big one .
5	And I 've managed to do up two of the buttons at the back , but I ca n't reach the top two .
6	I ca n't stand the bloody things myself . ’
7	I ca n't stand the absolute darkness .
8	I ca n't stand the sweet saccharin in the lemonade !
9	‘ I ca n't imagine the other one . ’
10	It 's bad enough trying to persuade 168-pin chip to part company with its socket — I ca n't imagine the grey hairs that 'll result from trying to insert an expensive 238-pin one in its place !
11	Oh yeah , that 's good though , and I ca n't read the top two lines !
12	and erm , what was the other one erm , I ca n't remember the other one
13	I ca n't remember the actual year , but I know , I mean it 's by the eighteen forties , it 's the eighteen forties .
14	I ca n't remember the posh names usually .
15	I ca n't remember the exact circumstances but it was about West Bank leaving the district , a matter of some sensitivity at the time .
16	The Everton v Leeds United game at Goodison park is nearly here , I ca n't remember the exact date , all I know is that it is on a Tuesday night .
17	And the other are the people doing the physical assessments , for example in the hospitals , er , at Princess Royal Hospital in Telford , I think , we had to , I ca n't remember the exact figure , but we certainly had to increase our staff there , our hospital social workers to secure the throughput that 's er , being required .
18	March I ca n't remember the exact date erm
19	Erm , I ca n't remember the exact conversation but the basics of it were that we were looking for somebody called Lawrence and he was at the present time at erm and that he was in possession of a gun and that the caller was concerned for the safety of the occupants of those premises .
20	if it was the national advertising campaign and knowing and er basically then , I would n't of thought I 'd be talking anything above a hundred thousand , I would and , and I ca n't remember the exact figure but given
21	Erm when we were telephoned at home and called out to report to Police Station erm I ca n't remember the exact time that we got to Police Station and it would have been er somewhere in the region of four o'clock in the morning .
22	I ca n't remember the exact words . ’
23	a paragraph at the end of one of the chapters and , I ca n't remember the exact words but in , what it meant was that for the parents who do restrain the children from what they watch
24	The I ca n't remember the exact date but what I can tell you is those of you that take the Newark Advertiser and the exact dates are in today 's Newark Advertiser .
25	I , I ca n't remember the original plan .
26	They put us all in different homes and I ca n't remember the whole family being together , ever .
27	So if you think about the massive exodus from the south in the nineteen sixties and seventies erm I ca n't remember the precise figures but in the , at that time er sort of the equivalent of current social security cheque er in er if in , if in New York it was about five hundred dollars a month in Mississippi it was fifty dollars a month .
28	I recently read the A B C of Homeworking , it was quite never mind , I ca n't say the damn word , I could see very clearly , the potential for injury and exposure to other hazards is frightening .
29	We were going to say hullo to you , and then walk round to that little island — it 's called Seal Island — I ca n't say the Gaelic name but Mrs McDougall told me that 's what it means .
30	I ca n't say the juggling timetables with my partner is always easy , economically we earn the equivalent of one decent wage and find it difficult to save .