Example sentences of "we ca [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lions called the second-minute try by Bunce ‘ a split decision ’ and Cooke said : ‘ We ca n't complain about that . |
| 2 | Alamena knows we ca n't stay in each other 's company for longer than a minute or two without quarrelling . ’ |
| 3 | We ca n't stay in this house . |
| 4 | We ca n't think of any more songs |
| 5 | ‘ We ca n't go on this way . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We ca n't go in this weather , ’ Julie said , looking out of the window . |
| 7 | ‘ We ca n't go in this . ’ |
| 8 | We ca n't pay for that out of the general population in the City of Oxford , we 've got to take it out of the people who live in council houses and are paying rent and this seems to me a most iniquitous way of erm financing our people on how incomes . |
| 9 | Merlyn said , irritably : ‘ Well , come on , Ben , we ca n't stand in this passage for ever . ’ |
| 10 | Or as Dr Dani Bevan , general manager of Powys health authority puts it : ‘ If we do n't get the communications right , we ca n't talk to each other . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You know we ca n't talk to any outsiders , ’ replied the hijra , ‘ unless Chaman Guruji gives us permission . ’ |
| 12 | We ca n't travel in this cold . |
| 13 | ‘ We ca n't continue with this anarchist democracy , with everything based on goodwill and working 22 hours a day . |
| 14 | ‘ We ca n't compete with that but it 's the only reason these players would need to leave Newcastle . |
| 15 | Chief Supt Barry Stewart , head of Northumbria CID , who is liaising with anti-terrorist officers , said : ‘ We ca n't say with any certainty that we have found them all . ’ |
| 16 | To this hour we ca n't judge with any certainty whether they really intend to slip by us into Derbyshire or to march to Wales through Cheshire … |
| 17 | ‘ But we ca n't argue like that any more , Amy . |
| 18 | ‘ But we ca n't count on this weather lasting . |
| 19 | Erm no we ca n't play with that . |
| 20 | Very clearly then , we 've got a proposal that we do n't pursue that option , which we 've paid the len rent this year , we 've paid the lease this year , so we ca n't backtrack on that , but maybe that 'll come up for future discussion . |
| 21 | Erm do you believe if , if we erm oh I think we 've already covered that bit right so if I put erm come up with a erm a recommendation that would provide erm an income for your wife in the event of your death erm is there any reason why we ca n't look at this ? |
| 22 | But I 've left that sort of civil liberty out of this motion today , because we ca n't deal with all the , because we ca n't deal with everything all at once , but perhaps it can be tou touched at council , because we had Colonel , who also does n't like to be confused with the facts , trying to tell us that next year the , or the year after next , budgets will be cash limited , but I 've got news , they already are cash limited . |
| 23 | ( For instance : ‘ We ca n't deal with that until department X has authorised us . ’ ) |
| 24 | What about twinning , do you think that that 's of such a high priority that when council houses need repairs that those repairs should be put down on the ladder and said ‘ I 'm sorry , we ca n't deal with that because part of the money that we could allocate to council house repairs is being used for twinning and things like that ’ ? |
| 25 | We ca n't compromise on that principle , we have to ask you to oppose motion one one O. |
| 26 | We ca n't trust to that , Mrs Hilaire . |
| 27 | With us all jockeying for position in the status stakes , we ca n't afford for this to happen . |
| 28 | ‘ We ca n't get into much trouble at Mona 's . ’ |