Example sentences of "ca not [vb infin] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anywhere , sir , I said , and ‘ I 'm afraid we ca n't serve alcohol before departure . ’ |
| 2 | Often she ca n't do PE at school and ca n't walk very far . |
| 3 | And there are the future situations I sit on the bed here and think about : my utter love for some man ; I know I ca n't do things like love by halves , I know I have love pent up in me , I shall throw myself away , lose my heart and my body and my mind and soul to some cad like G.P. Who 'll betray me . |
| 4 | I ca n't stand tea with sugar in it . |
| 5 | Yeah but you ca n't tell screws from security can you ? |
| 6 | You ca n't mistake nits for dandruff . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When I say I ca n't see people I think it 's the lighting but there is a sort of a I ca n't recognise people by face . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't care if they 're hallucinating purple snakes and blue baboons , because the whole point of putting them on a boat is that they ca n't get off and swim home , and they ca n't get drugs on board , and they ca n't bribe you to take them to land , and that means they 'll have no damned choice but to get cured . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Washing-up Liquid : If you ca n't get hold of bleach you can use diluted washing-up liquid instead . |
| 14 | ‘ Now that they ca n't get hold of cocaine they 'll just crash out . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | you ca n't get fish from prize thinking fish |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Emmie said , ‘ I ca n't ask Dad for money for a vet . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We ca n't have Secretaries of State behaving in this way and talking about respected professionals in such disparaging terms |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ You ca n't mix business with friendship , ’ Jane–urged , ‘ and anyway the friendship is n't that close . |
| 23 | The Home Office say an enquiry is underway , but they ca n't discuss details of prison security . |
| 24 | Ca n't abide traitors to class or country . ’ |
| 25 | You know you ca n't feel , you ca n't grab hold of light in your hand . |
| 26 | ‘ They ca n't work magic like fairy folk . ’ |
| 27 | Even now I 'll go back and I ca n't play note for note what I played then ; I can get the general feel of it but I can never go back and hit it note for note . |
| 28 | Even now I 'll go back and I ca n't play note for note what I played then ; I can get the general feel of it but I can never go back and hit it note for note |
| 29 | I ca n't say touch for touch how we became lovers because , really , we had been ever since he came into the room and found me still there , waiting and pretending . |
| 30 | I ca n't plead affairs of state as he can . " |