Example sentences of "of [pron] [pers pn] 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | This contrasts with information volunteered by an Irishman , the accuracy of which I can not guarantee . |
| 8 | A corporation has an artificial persona and consequently there are certain allegations in respect of which it can not sue . |
| 9 | but of what we can not tell , for they come to represent the depths of feeling into which we can not peer . |
| 10 | ( 1987 : 29 ) I would only add that the value of what we can not understand is only recognized by reference to what we can . |
| 11 | They rooted out those folk who were not … ordinary , and banished them from Minginish. people are afraid of what they can not understand . ’ |