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Example sentences for "cannot bring"

  • I cannot bring myself to think that he is guilty.

  • I think, Johnny, you and I are alike in this, that when we have loved, we cannot bring ourselves to change.

  • I never enter on a discussion on the questions at issue between us, without feeling compelled to do one of two things; and yet I cannot bring my mind to do either.

  • So I did not reject this Kalingasena when she came, but I cannot bring myself to do anything without your wish.

  • Moreover, I cannot bring myself to endure the sight of my native city, now that my father is not in it.

  • I cannot bring myself to say so; for I know it would make you both miserable.

  • That will probably depend on circumstances," said the Lady Alexandrina; I find that I cannot bring my courteous pen to drop the title.

  • I cannot bring in my doctor speaking his mind freely among the bigwigs till I have explained that it is in accordance with his usual character to do so.

  • I cannot bring myself to believe that the man who was sitting the other day at my table should be so great a scoundrel.

  • I cannot bring myself to believe that you are really in earnest.

  • And let it be remembered that very many who can devote themselves for great sacrifices, cannot bring themselves to the endurance of little injuries.

  • If I cannot bring him to the gallows, I can at least make every man and woman in the country point the finger of scorn and hatred at him.

  • It cannot bring her up again to the bright world out of the dark grave.

  • It cannot bring it back, or heal a single sorrow for its loss.

  • Cheesy is the best fellow in the world in some respects, but he cannot bring himself to speak well of a fellow behind his back.

  • I cannot bring myself to do that, even though I had the right.

  • Your father is hard, and though he loves you still, he cannot bring himself to forget.

  • Of course I wish you to be full of joy;--of course I wish with all my heart that you may be happy if you marry your cousin; but the thing has come so suddenly that we cannot bring ourselves to look upon it as a reality.

  • Money seems such a small thing when it cannot bring us the presence of those we love.

  • But in order to do this I must tell him the story of my love and my disappointment; and I cannot bring myself to do that.

  • I cannot bring myself to believe that Henry Dunbar has been guilty of this fearful crime.

  • I cannot bring myself to suppose it possible that she can have been guilty of any fraud or deception.

  • But if she repents,--as I am sure she does, I cannot bring myself to desert her.

  • It would be useless at present, seeing that we cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.

  • I cannot bring myself to think that ten thousand obligations are new letters of credit.

  • I am constantly occupied, engaged, amused, till I cannot bring a hundredth part of what I have to say into the compass of a letter.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another paper; another portion; cannot allow; cannot attempt; cannot avoid; cannot call; cannot endure; cannot explain; cannot fail; cannot find; cannot here; cannot hope; cannot know; cannot possibly; cannot recall; cannot recollect; cannot refuse; cannot remember; cannot represent; cannot take; cannot tell; cannot understand; common term; could believe; rode upon; teaspoon mustard