Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] can [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Mummy loves me but can not look after me any more . |
| 2 | My mummy loves me but can not look after me any more . |
| 3 | My mummy loves me but can not look after me any more . |
| 4 | They were all related to the general principle , said to have been established with the introduction of legal aid in 1950 , that ‘ … legal services should be available to those who need them but can not afford to pay for them . ’ |
| 5 | Some people are unable to make choices because they feel they must have everything and can not accept the loss that is inherent in exercising choice . |
| 6 | After discussing colour and product preferences , the consultant applies the make-up step-by-step to her own face and the customer copies , so that she learns how to use the products herself and can instantly see if she likes them or not . |
| 7 | It is no earthly use appointing a particular officer if the childen do not know how to complain to him or her and can not do so . |
| 8 | Butch tries to answer him but can only say . |
| 9 | It hardly suits disabled children who have to learn about life as they experience it and can not recover something that they never possessed . |
| 10 | Thus the double layer moves more slowly than the average and so yet more growth layers pile up behind it and can not pass . |
| 11 | Recognise in time , perhaps only from the despair of repeated failure , that you yourself did not cause the disease , can not control it and can not cure it and that in time you may need to surrender the fight and hand over the care of the sufferer 's addictive disease to his or her own appropriate Anonymous Fellowship . |
| 12 | Enjoying , we spontaneously welcome awareness ; bored and listless , we can not without effort summon it up ; disliking , we withdraw from it ; suffering , we recoil from it but can not escape it . |
| 13 | That method is exactly the one best suited to LBOs or recapitalised firms that have overpaid for themselves and can not meet their debts . |
| 14 | Being brick-sized , they can be used to create a wide range of more detailed patterns in themselves but can also look attractive when interwoven amongst larger paving units . |