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Example sentences for "cannot make"

  • I cannot make a positive statement on that.

  • May I--I tell you, I am going to furnish you a copy of this, but I cannot make a copy unless I have it.

  • Then just below that there is a line of writing, the first word of which I cannot make out, that is, I cannot make any intelligible word of it, but the second word appears to be "holster.

  • If not, it cannot make the action better or worse; because what is not good, cannot make a greater good; and what is not evil, cannot make a greater evil.

  • Although God can do all things, He cannot make a thing that is corrupt not to have been corrupted.

  • I cannot make a question, or listen to a question about that.

  • Perhaps he finds consolation in the company of the two Annexes, or one of them,--but which, I cannot make out.

  • So at Stratford,--the Cloptons and the John a Combes, with all their memorials, cannot make us lift our eyes from the stone which covers the dust that once breathed and walked the streets of Stratford as Shakespeare.

  • I cannot make a chapter like the famous one on Iceland, from my own limited observation: There are no snakes in England.

  • Man or ghost, he cannot make me marry him if I will not.

  • He cannot make me speak to him if I will not.

  • My theft is all the greater in that I cannot make restoration.

  • Forgive me, dearest, but I cannot make up my mind to pay my debts in the way you wish.

  • I love her as tenderly as any man can love a woman, but I cannot make her a wife; the reasons are known only to herself and me.

  • This is the proverb, “What makes thee unclean, cannot make me unclean, but thou canst make me unclean.

  • When the body of the paschal sacrifice was unclean, “the plate” cannot make it accepted, as they say the Nazarite and the celebrant of the passover have the uncleanness of the blood accepted with “the plate.

  • This is the proverb: “What makes thee unclean, cannot make me unclean, but thou canst make me unclean.

  • Chamberlain wrote on the same day in reply to my letters, "I cannot make head or tail of Salisbury.

  • To do so would involve statements based on private letters and statements as to Cabinet differences of 1882, which I cannot make.

  • I have made only a few corrections in the style; but I cannot make it decent, but I hope moderately intelligible.

  • This sketch is MOST imperfect; but in so short a space I cannot make it better.

  • I have just corrected the copy, and am disappointed in finding how tough and obscure it is; I cannot make it clearer, and at present I loathe the very sight of it.

  • That the understanding, therefore, cannot make of its a priori principles, or even of its conceptions, other than an empirical use, is a proposition which leads to the most important results.

  • In other words, I can never complete the regress through the conditions of existence, without admitting the existence of a necessary being; but, on the other hand, I cannot make a commencement from this being.

  • But the question relates to the mundus phaenomenon, and its quantity; and in this case we cannot make abstraction of the conditions of sensibility, without doing away with the essential reality of this world itself.

  • In such a case, we cannot make a better choice, or rather we have no choice at all, but feel ourselves obliged to declare in favour of the absolute unity of complete reality, as the highest source of the possibility of things.

  • This is what makes it an ideal, that it is capable of becoming real, and if a man does not realise an ideal, cannot make it real in his mind, it is not accurate for him to say that it is not practical.

  • And if he cannot make it, he makes the makers of it.

  • J’y perds mon latin = I cannot make it out; I am nonplussed; I can make neither head nor tail of it.

  • Je m’y perds = I am getting bewildered; I cannot make head or tail of it.

  • Résoudre Je ne puis m’y résoudre = I cannot make up my mind to do it.

  • I read the Bible, and am convinced myself; and yet I cannot make up my mind to think that good men, with faith in a Saviour, will perish eternally because they judge differently.

  • I am not so powerless that I cannot make my commands respected by my own court.

  • I cannot make up my mind to throw them away.

  • I cannot make up my mind to take the brutal step which would free me once and for all from him.

  • I have had out all my dresses, but I cannot make up my mind what to wear.

  • Mina," I said, "a promise like that, I cannot make at once.

  • Sanguine temperament; great physical strength; morbidly excitable; periods of gloom ending in some fixed idea which I cannot make out.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cannot afford; cannot allow; cannot attempt; cannot believe; cannot call; cannot conceive; cannot deny; cannot doubt; cannot expect; cannot explain; cannot express; cannot fail; cannot give; cannot have; cannot help; cannot hold; cannot imagine; cannot leave; cannot sleep; cannot speak; cannot stop; cannot understand; growth rate; lightning rods; measured from claimed archipelagic baselines exclusive; still standing