Example sentences of "can [pers pn] [not/n't] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can you not feel that ? ’ |
| 2 | Can you not stay another day to sail round the island ? ’ |
| 3 | Look on you know what I mean , how can you not do that for your favourite friend . |
| 4 | It was nice but the next time you do it can you not put such and such in it . |
| 5 | It was nice but the next time you do it can you not put such and such in it . |
| 6 | Can you not get that nice edging that 's got a bit of a pattern on it ? |
| 7 | If a passage can be reduced to a set of elementary propositions of the kind approximately represented in [ 9 ] , can we not regard this as the neutral , " styleless " version against which all other paraphrases , such as [ 8 ] , are stylistically marked in varying degrees ? |
| 8 | Sa this wo this kid went out having this bloody bath said can we not do this every day ? |
| 9 | Please , please , please can we not destroy those part-time jobs ? |
| 10 | Can we not have some where we are . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ How can they not understand that to do a real Kitezh or a real Ruslan — as we will do in the next year or so , it 's planned — is much more honourable , much more pleasurable artistically and much more important to the artistic world that a middleclass performance of , let's say , Rigoletto , in a small opera-house in Germany or Italy ? |
| 12 | He realises too late that not only can he not meet that deadline but he will not be able to finish those accounts before 31 December 1994 . |