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Examples

  • Obviously we can-not plan for funerals or 3 a.m. phone calls.

    Thou Shalt Not Turn Me Into a False Idol 2007

  • One was that the powers of the state alone can-not defeat terrorists.

    Terror at Rush Hour 2007

  • The man, whoever he be, can-not be too good for my Lucy.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • You grudge not your tears: and as I can-not give you tears for tears, from my eyes, shall not my arm weep?.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • 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

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Greville can-not love him: he can only admire him, and that every-body does, who has been but once in his com-pany.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • His I can-not expect to be: I must then of necessity be a single woman as long as I live.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • You can-not escape from this islet on which the ‘Duncan’ leaves you.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • You can-not escape from this islet on which the ‘Duncan’ leaves you.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • 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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