Example sentences of "can not [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you can not expect I mean we was actually lucky there was a job there now , when it closed down . |
| 2 | ‘ I can not claim I know Mr Peckham . |
| 3 | Belief … may be said to be the state of mind of a person who says to himself : " I can not say I know for certain that these goods are stolen , but there can be no other reasonable conclusion in the light of circumstances … |
| 4 | I can not say I feel any enthusiasm for the result . |
| 5 | I have updated the models many times over the years , but I can not say I have made a fortune from my knitting . |
| 6 | About a dozen of the fry were ‘ belly-sliders ’ , something which I attribute to inbreeding , as the problem did not recur when the female was later mated to the wild male ; I can not say I have ever had this particular deformity ( of the swim-bladder , so the fish lack buoyancy ) in any other mouthbrooder . |