Example sentences of "ca not [vb infin] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Direct Tableware Company sales director Roger Young agrees that it will be next spring before any real growth in catering occurs , but he thinks there might be a slight upturn next month in the top-up business : ‘ It 's heading for the busy time and you ca n't serve customers without knives and forks . ’ |
| 2 | Anywhere , sir , I said , and ‘ I 'm afraid we ca n't serve alcohol before departure . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ You ca n't set targets with injuries , and I 'm not going to start trying now . |
| 5 | Strach 's had it just about — so Wilko 's decision to swap Rocky for White was a complete load of bollocks — if he ca n't manage players like Rocky and Cuntona then he should n't be a f*****g manager especially of a team with rather large delusions of grandeur . |
| 6 | Often she ca n't do PE at school and ca n't walk very far . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ We felt it was a worthwhile cause as we ca n't stand cruelty to animals of any sort . |
| 10 | I ca n't stand tea with sugar in it . |
| 11 | ‘ Ca n't tell boys from girls ’ has been the typical whine from reporters when faced by any new youth group . |
| 12 | Yeah but you ca n't tell screws from security can you ? |
| 13 | Town need … have to win tomorrow … if they ca n't beat teams like Sheffield United then it 's big big trouble … |
| 14 | Dilemma of parents who ca n't forget tragedy of Hillsborough |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | You ca n't mistake nits for dandruff . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A very famous person in the guitar industry said you ca n't build guitars with machines . |
| 19 | You ca n't build guitars with machines , but you can make very precise guitar parts . |
| 20 | A very famous person in the guitar industry said you ca n't build guitars with machines . |
| 21 | You ca n't build guitars with machines , but you can make very precise guitar parts . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But Mansell , who has clashed verbally and physically with the triple champion said : ‘ My boss Frank Williams has told me he ca n't stop people like Ayrton phoning him or coming to his room . |
| 24 | Clearly you ca n't expect admissions of people with disabilities er for example , taking one aspect of that er cultural and er that policy , to be high if you know the building itself is physically inaccessible . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He says he simply ca n't accept women as priests . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Considering the Council is planning to close down the Library because you ca n't keep track of things properly . ’ |
| 29 | Well , no , I ca n't lose touch with Franca , we 're eternally connected , but she 'd become — sort of holy , frail . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |