Example sentences of "can not [vb infin] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You can not love him , Estella ! ’ |
| 2 | On the one hand , she finds it true that ‘ the definition of ‘ Almighty ’ means that there is no evil out of which good can not be brought' , while on the same page she writes that , ‘ if those theologies who assert that God is in total control of His creation are right , I can not worship Him ’ . |
| 3 | How much it costs to replace him if you can not manage him and his career in an informed way ? |
| 4 | If he wants to go , I can not stop him . ’ |
| 5 | After all , we have no proof against him , and if we can not make him talk , this mystery will never be solved . |
| 6 | We can create conditions for an employer , but we can not make him employ someone under those conditions . |
| 7 | Charles 's following ( populus ) then swore " in its own language , the lingua romana " : " If Louis keeps the oath which he swears to his brother Charles , and my lord Charles for his part does not keep his , if I can not make him refrain [ from that action ] , then neither I nor any other whom I can make refrain will give him any aid against Louis " . |
| 8 | He is unique in His person — we can not treat Him as if He was an ordinary human being . |
| 9 | I can not prevent him going forth , but am ever relieved when he has returned . |
| 10 | If a creditor has levied and completed execution the debentureholders can not compel him to restore the money , nor , until the charge has crystallised , can he be restrained from levying execution . |
| 11 | I can not dignify him with the name of " physician " … should send to their doom many poor souls who might , with the proper treatment , recover ! " |
| 12 | Mandy Merck says : ‘ To associate Bill Clinton with a known gay activist like myself can not do him vast favours in large parts of homophobic America . ’ |
| 13 | We can not blame him for this — he has his career to think of — but we must protest when he puts on his most earnest face and lectures the other two parties . |
| 14 | However , even if we can not blame him for murdering the other in his sleep , we might respect him more if he did put himself at a disadvantage by clinging to one of his last disintegrating scraps of morality . |
| 15 | ‘ I can not blame him , madam . |
| 16 | Thanks to you , I can not give him my name , but I shall furnish him with everything else he needs , including love . |
| 17 | ‘ You can not give him that , ’ Cleo said sharply . |
| 18 | We may not always be completely happy with the published data we find in the Registrar-General 's reviews but we can not accuse him of using secondary sources when his organization has , in fact , collected all the information at first hand from the people themselves . |
| 19 | It is accordingly unnecessary to address the fine points of interpretation which rule 14A undoubtedly raises in the context of civil discovery for , even if Mr. Browne 's arguments upon them are correct , that can not avail him here . |
| 20 | Of all the species of dog in the world I can not place him with ownership of a Yorkie . |
| 21 | But in my heart of hearts I know I can not telephone him . |
| 22 | All I say is , if someone can not play in rhythm and has not music within him , then we can not admit him . |
| 23 | Mr Gould , ’ the piece continued , ‘ has left our shores for Southern [ South Australia ] and we can not wish him better success than that which he has hitherto experienced . ’ |
| 24 | But can not phone him from Twills as Mr Twill would insist on shinning up drainpipe himself and break femur . |
| 25 | Unless he will forswear this feud of his own will I can not release him . ’ |
| 26 | At present an agoraphobic shag is languishing at the wildlife centre and , despite every inducement , Mrs Bolton can not persuade him even to get his feet wet . |
| 27 | We can not let him die . |
| 28 | ‘ I can not let him down . |
| 29 | He won that actually on appeal because he said he needed to raise the funds for a project he 'd got in mind and they allowed him twenty eight days in the first year , he now carries on fourteen days without planning permission every year , but give him credit he does run it very well , er and you can not fault him , but we in our area do actually issue licences , you can not have a car boot sale or market stall without a licence and I personally have run the charity markets in er the village high street and got a licence at the cost of a pound . |
| 30 | We can not ask him , because he is not here , but it is an important question , to which his constituents have a right to know his answer . |