Example sentences of "ca not [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anywhere , sir , I said , and ‘ I 'm afraid we ca n't serve alcohol before departure . ’ |
| 2 | You are the pleasures which we draw him on to — ( He escapes a fractional giggle but recovers immediately ) and by that I do n't mean your usual filth ; you ca n't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires . |
| 3 | Often she ca n't do PE at school and ca n't walk very far . |
| 4 | But words ca n't do justice to Jan Ormerod 's wonderful animal pictures , which make each spread in this large-format picture a joy to look at . |
| 5 | ‘ We felt it was a worthwhile cause as we ca n't stand cruelty to animals of any sort . |
| 6 | I ca n't stand tea with sugar in it . |
| 7 | Dilemma of parents who ca n't forget tragedy of Hillsborough |
| 8 | One solution is never to leave your home unoccupied again , but if you ca n't face life without holidays you could pay someone to be there when you are n't . |
| 9 | We Brits may have invented cricket , tennis , football , rugby , golf , darts and bowls but we ca n't lay claim to baseball , ice hockey , American football , ten-pin bowling , rhythmic gymnastics , synchro swimming or sumo wrestling . |
| 10 | You ca n't make love at pistol point … her being filled with remorse , and she checked herself from flinging her arms round Lucy : steady , Jay , she told herself , we 're only seconds away from no , nay , never . |
| 11 | ‘ Charity , if you ca n't see destiny at work in all this , you 're blinder than your glasses , thick as they were , ever led me to believe . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Considering the Council is planning to close down the Library because you ca n't keep track of things properly . ’ |
| 13 | Well , no , I ca n't lose touch with Franca , we 're eternally connected , but she 'd become — sort of holy , frail . |
| 14 | It 's quite funny really because er I used to go off I had an agreement with the headmaster at that particular time and he 'd h I 'd been a full time teacher with him , and he needed somebody desperately , that was the only reason obviously he wanted me back , and er I said Well look I can come back but I ca n't get back in order to go to the assembly at first . |
| 15 | Washing-up Liquid : If you ca n't get hold of bleach you can use diluted washing-up liquid instead . |
| 16 | They ca n't get hold of batteries . |
| 17 | ‘ Now that they ca n't get hold of cocaine they 'll just crash out . ’ |
| 18 | Reportedly it ca n't get performance from 16-bit Windows applications running on NT , and admits there 's no real point in trying to do it . |
| 19 | If it 's impossible to placate them or reason with them , if they insist on making your life a misery , if you ca n't get help from friends or a higher authority , then you must turn the tables on them — and fast . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's all sorts of rumours , but you ca n't take notice of rumours in this place . |
| 21 | Elderly people who worry that they ca n't afford VAT on fuel are putting their lives at risk by buying second hand paraffin heaters . |
| 22 | Emmie said , ‘ I ca n't ask Dad for money for a vet . |
| 23 | You clearly ca n't have sex with fellas you ai n't fond of . |
| 24 | We 're talking here of protection , of they ca n't have waiver of premium because of ill-health , they 're not going to be able to have living assurance , so it , it 's not an option really for them to have one without the other , because it 's an automatic protection that , that really should be the basis of somebody 's package of their health commitment to have it . |
| 25 | We ca n't have drama without people . |
| 26 | And I 'm just wondering what the the knock on effect of that is in the visiting of the , the members who ca n't get into church and who ca n't receive communion in church , and who may like to receive it in their home , or in the home , where they live . |
| 27 | ‘ You ca n't mix business with friendship , ’ Jane–urged , ‘ and anyway the friendship is n't that close . |
| 28 | We 'll see if we ca n't catch sight of Mullach and Lionan as they head back north . |
| 29 | We just ca n't convert pressure into points ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ You ca n't argue politics with foreigners , ’ sighed the policeman . |