Example sentences of "ca not [verb] [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , although we had n't thought of a name , we 'd started to fancy doing a couple of gigs and , of course , you ca n't do gigs without a name . |
| 2 | I ca n't stand creepers on the walls ! |
| 3 | I ca n't stand minis at the best of times , but that 's hilarious ! |
| 4 | ‘ I ca n't answer questions over the telephone . |
| 5 | ‘ I want to avoid it , ’ he said of the ‘ little incidents ’ , but , when pressed , added : ‘ You ca n't control footballers on the field . ’ |
| 6 | Plants ca n't absorb dioxins from the soil or smoke dust that 's fallen onto their leaves or fruit , so food and drink made from these wo n't contain dioxins . |
| 7 | Hairshafts are totally dead , so cutting them ca n't send messages to the hair roots . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , more than half way through her pregnancy , Suzanne Jones ca n't make plans for the future . |
| 9 | ‘ Tomorrow , you make sure that he ca n't give details of the formula to anyone else — ever . ’ |
| 10 | You ca n't put emotions in a bottle labelled ‘ Exhibit B ’ . |
| 11 | You ca n't merge addresses from the address book into a document , nor can you input data from the database into it . |
| 12 | You ca n't get sums in an engine 's smoke box . |
| 13 | Erm again i er the old story , we ca n't get speakers on a Monday and better luck in last year this year , sorry er I was able to get Danny but there again he came very expensive erm but we brought , we had to bring him from Lancaster so er , you ca n't expect him to come for nothing . |
| 14 | They ca n't take children to the school door . |
| 15 | Well I mean you ca n't have rules without a police force , can you , and since there 's no poets ' union from which you could be expelled , clearly whether there are any rules depends entirely on the poets themselves and their readers , and everybody knows that until about the end of the nineteenth century almost all poetry was written in regular metre and regular patterns and , except for blank verse , in regular rhyme , and that this is no longer so and now you would either be deliberately old fashioned or you would have some special purpose , I think , if you wrote your poems in traditional rhyming schemes . |