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Examples
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Obviously we can-not plan for funerals or 3 a.m. phone calls.
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One was that the powers of the state alone can-not defeat terrorists.
Terror at Rush Hour 2007
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The man, whoever he be, can-not be too good for my Lucy.
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You grudge not your tears: and as I can-not give you tears for tears, from my eyes, shall not my arm weep?.
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You see that you can-not, in justice to your brother, and to his children yet unborn, as well as in duty to your deceased grandtiithers, assume the veil
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Greville can-not love him: he can only admire him, and that every-body does, who has been but once in his com-pany.
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His I can-not expect to be: I must then of necessity be a single woman as long as I live.
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You can-not escape from this islet on which the ‘Duncan’ leaves you.
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You can-not escape from this islet on which the ‘Duncan’ leaves you.
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The circumstances of depth and descent strike so strongly upon him, that their influence can-not be destroy'd by the contrary circumstances of support and solidity, which ought to give him a perfect security.
Archive 2005-09-01 2005
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