Example sentences of "we ca [not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We ca n't watch it all either , ’ replied Tina angrily . |
| 2 | We ca n't give him any free headers around the box or else we 'll regret it . |
| 3 | ‘ What we have said in the McFarlane Report is that people are calling for the earth , we ca n't give it all but we can give them a substantial part . |
| 4 | And we ca n't give you any over five horses . |
| 5 | I rang , I rang , I went to the dole office , when I went down I ask them as soon as I left Ann said the same , go down the dole when you ask about your poll tax , they said to me we ca n't give you any id , er anything , you have to phone them , council building site , I phone the council building and they asked me , that 's why I sent all your wage slips in for |
| 6 | Here 's the planning permission here 's the site if you insist on going there well we ca n't give you any guarantees but we 'll do our best for you , but certainly the best thing is to have the allocation . |
| 7 | And if there 's any slight mistake in the signature , they tell you , ‘ No , we ca n't give you this . ’ |
| 8 | Er , but if we run out of time and I find we have n't we we we ca n't fit it all in I 'd like you all to attempt to do this for yourselves after er , the lecture is over . |
| 9 | Come off it I 'm afraid , we ca n't do them both ways . |
| 10 | If we ca n't answer them this very day , or in fact , if they do not occur to you this very day , but on subse quent occasions , of course , we will endeavour to answer the points a little later on . |
| 11 | I guess we ca n't have it all ! |
| 12 | Scientists disavow the Space Station as irrelevant , but Capitol Hill tends to bunch these things together as ‘ science ’ , and insists that we ca n't have it all . |
| 13 | Right , I must get some literature actually from Barry because as you know , it , it , we ca n't get it all out of the now , |