Example sentences of "[adj] i can [not/n't] [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 | Frustrated I can not land what I want to do , and do n't want to settle for the wrong thing . |
| 10 | GIPSY : [ examining PAMELA 's hand ] O , I can not tell , your hand is so white and fine I can not see the lines . |
| 11 | 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 . |