Example sentences of "ca [not/n't] [vb infin] [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you ca n't sink half a ship can you ? |
| 2 | Even that Chanel suit she got in Paris ca n't disguise all the weight she 's put on . |
| 3 | Du n no , well you ca n't talk all the time you 'd have a sore throat would n't you ? |
| 4 | ‘ You ca n't do such a thing ! |
| 5 | Applied to religion , people often say things like this : " I ca n't stand all the incense , candles and ceremony , and above all the sermons , so I 'm having nothing to do with religion " ; " I go to church because I love the music " . |
| 6 | Sunderland 's achievement in reaching the FA Cup final last year is motivating Newcastle , and McDermott said : ‘ We are only three games from Wembley and there is no reason why we too ca n't go all the way . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm afraid I ca n't allow such a mistake to go unpunished . |
| 8 | I ca n't see all the way over the way tu tu |
| 9 | He , he ca n't see that a dog ! |
| 10 | We ca n't keep this a secret any more . |
| 11 | But er , one two is that , you ca n't use all the memory you 've got . |
| 12 | It did n't seem like a diet — in fact , if there was one sentence that kept reappearing in most of the letters I received , it was : ‘ You ca n't call this a diet , it 's more a way of eating ’ . |
| 13 | If it ca n't get all the way round cos someone 's pulled this wire out , or opened a switch |
| 14 | However , erm this is the first chance I 've had to speak today so I ca n't take all the blame of the er , of the , of the late start , erm I do n't know whether it would make it any easier to the my colleagues on my right or my left erm to accept the Liberal resolution . |
| 15 | The local MP Robert Jackson who 's also a Minister in the employment department admits the Government has made mistakes , but says they ca n't take all the blame . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm afraid I ca n't take all the credit . |
| 17 | That 's why I ca n't take such a risk . ’ |
| 18 | We ca n't afford such a loss . |
| 19 | I ca n't afford half an hour waiting for you to show up . ’ |
| 20 | My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father . |
| 21 | ‘ You ca n't have half an hour , ’ Jack argued . |
| 22 | ‘ I use the mouth , but I ca n't hack all the violence . |
| 23 | " I do n't , " Curtis Strange told me , " think I could get round St. Andrews in 59 or less — I ca n't visualise such a score . |