Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] can not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dearest Mother and Dad I am sorry I can not write letter to-night will write to-morrow night . |
| 2 | I say I 'm sorry I can not understand a word you 're saying . |
| 3 | She is pleasant enough but how reliable I can not say and I am not depending on her for the birth . |
| 4 | How women who do n't have professions manage to keep themselves sane I can not imagine ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I am afraid I can not comment at all , ’ said Sir Donald Hall , deputy chairman of GEC-Marconi . |
| 6 | And more than that I 'm afraid I can not tell people . |
| 7 | I am afraid I can not bear just yet to go back to Baldersdale . |
| 8 | ‘ I am afraid I can not say any more . |
| 9 | Remember that if you return home at the end of the session with the work you planned to do uncompleted you can not expect to return the next day or the next week to find the situation exactly as you left it . |
| 10 | The doctor said , ‘ I 'm afraid we can not hope now . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm afraid we can not have any of this . |
| 12 | Laryngitis with hoarseness worse ( < ) in the evening ; larynx so painful they can not talk ; very sensitive to touch and cold air . |
| 13 | As no one group is self-sufficient it can not meet the needs of its members . |
| 14 | Well I hope this article clearly shows how to one fishkeeper a species can seem so easy he/she can not stop them breeding , while for another it can seem to be the most difficult fish in the world . |
| 15 | Frustrated I can not land what I want to do , and do n't want to settle for the wrong thing . |
| 16 | GIPSY : [ examining PAMELA 's hand ] O , I can not tell , your hand is so white and fine I can not see the lines . |
| 17 | When the weather is very cold they can not fly at all , but can warm themselves by deflecting their wings at right angles to the Sun ( as do , for example , locusts ) . |
| 18 | Sure they can not take one big er , holiday . |
| 19 | Although barbel are so stupid when they are feeding ravenously , they are not so stupid they can not learn a few tricks of their own to enable them to feed in the face of apparent danger . |
| 20 | ‘ I must make sure it can not happen again . |
| 21 | Always going on about the Fate of the Graduate Wife and how she 's fed up being a cabbage — well as far as I 'm concerned I can not see the call for langwidge . |
| 22 | I have been talking to the whites many years about the lands in question , and it is strange they can not understand me ; the country they claim belonged to my father , and when he died it was given to me and my people , and I will not leave it until I am compelled to . |
| 23 | But it is infinitely worse if you are so divided that it is apparent you can not take any action at all . |
| 24 | While projects of this kind can be very impressive they can not hope to generate an increase in output from the mass of small scale farmers , as their requirement for scarce , high level management is too great . |
| 25 | ( b ) They are essentially personal , and although historians may try to be objective and impartial they can not free themselves entirely from their own ideas about people and the world , their personal likes and dislikes , and the assumptions and values of the age in which they live . |
| 26 | While there is trouble between Copt and Moslem he can not offer it to a Copt nor a Copt take it . ’ |
| 27 | If you stack rocks on top of each other make certain they can not tumble ; neither the fish , or the tank glass will appreciate a falling rock . |