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Example sentences for "can have"

  • I then realized what extraordinary effect fear can have on the mind, for I fancied that, if I was not annihilated by the fires of heaven which were flashing all around me, it was only because they could not enter my magic ring.

  • I can have no secrets from your excellency.

  • The proposal is a very agreeable one to me," I answered, "and I would willingly give her thirty thousand francs as a dowry, but I can have nothing to do with the matter personally.

  • Except as a witness of the fact," I answered, "I can have nothing to do with this affair.

  • It must have been in the street, but I can't imagine how it can have happened.

  • All knowledge can be put into a kind of pemican, so that we can have it condensed.

  • At any rate, after such an exposition we can have no further intercourse with him.

  • A book which we could master and possess in an evening we can have read to us in a month in the club, without the least intellectual effort.

  • But he can have no linings to 'em, replied my father.

  • Surely, you will think conscience must lead such a man a troublesome life; he can have no rest night and day from its reproaches.

  • What a theatre we can have in the library here, the curtains between the columns which divide the room!

  • I would fix my rustic abode in a district where game is not preserved, and where I can have my sport without hindrance.

  • The education of his own station in life is forced upon him, he can have no other; the education received by the rich man from his own station is least fitted for himself and for society.

  • I can have one of better land, under Sir Walter; only I seemed to hold on to the old place; and my Sally likes to be under the old ladies.

  • But if the milkman meant nothing, because of his not belonging to our parish, the butcher does, and he can have no excuse.

  • If we can get that sense we can have a new world.

  • That we can have, if we are willing to be less greedy now, less venturesome and predatory.

  • We can have a perfectly bully time, and I will tell you how to run your University and you can tell me how to run the Government.

  • The probability is that we will go up to Bras D'Or Lakes, in Cape Breton, where we can have salt-water bathing and sailing and be most primitive.

  • I know that I can have no excuse to make to you,--or to her.

  • He can have no right to dispose of our hearts.

  • He can have no right to interfere in the disposal of my hand, and therefore I need not regard his wishes on the subject.

  • Our bodies, which seemed so living and now prove so dead, have served us such a trick that we can have no confidence in anything connected with them.

  • But I have nothing very particular, only a few words to say, and a question I want to ask you, and we can have a talk afterwards.

  • He cannot believe it, he cannot comprehend now how he can have acted as he did.

  • According to that, if my senses are annihilated, if my body is dead, I can have no existence of any sort?

  • How were that possible, Sir Piercie Shafton," said the monk, "since I see no wound from whence it can have flowed?

  • And yet, though I have paid for mass after mass to the matter of a forty shilling, besides a quarter of wheat and four firlocks of rye, I can have no assurance yet that he has been delivered from purgatory.

  • Unless he does hear it, he can have no suspicion of its being about him: he cannot imagine such 'lese-majeste' in the subservient courtiers too prudent to betray a sign.

  • Ideas in gestation are the dullest matter you can have.

  • Send word when you are coming so that I can have a carriage at the station at Chateauroux.

  • Next winter you will be in Passy, I hope,--and from time to time we can have a good chat.

  • I can have an enormous indulgence, perhaps banal, for I have had to practice it so much; but appreciation is quite another thing, and I do not think that it is entirely worn out in your old troubadour's mind.

  • I feel that I can have nothing in common with a woman who has such bad taste in the distribution of colour.

  • I can have something by-and- by, when I want it.

  • He upheld all that was old, and believed we can have no better institutions in the future than those which have already existed in the past.


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