Example sentences of "ca n't [adv] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't properly take it all in . |
| 2 | They 'll either hint I was downright dishonest to sign the contract in the first place or they 'll make out I ca n't even spell my own name . |
| 3 | But that makes now a good time for a little discreet character assassination , suggest the old boy ca n't even control his own Private Office . |
| 4 | You ca n't hate what you can not touch , I ca n't even feel what most people think of as despair . |
| 5 | It 's iniquitous , ’ he said on a shaky breath , ‘ that because of them , I ca n't even tell my own parents — let alone Naylor or Will or Hugo — about my love for her . |
| 6 | ‘ By the sod , Brother , I ca n't even govern my own house . ’ |
| 7 | They ca n't even meet their own boyfriends outside the club-they 've got to go right outside the area . |
| 8 | Kathy those documents have been there all week and you not taken the trouble to look at them but you will quip about the poll tax and its iniquities but you ca n't even read your own poll tax notice . |
| 9 | I mean a lot of mine I ca n't even remember me own number plate . |
| 10 | I think they have a cheek to complain about people writing other people 's press releases when they ca n't even write their own speeches , they just take a bit of their leaders and claim it as their own . |
| 11 | ‘ What 's the good of going on about contraception when you ca n't even get your own head together . ’ |
| 12 | However , I ca n't just ship it all — in one huge transfer-to Switzerland . |
| 13 | The thing is that you ca n't always judge your own work , this is the value of working together . |
| 14 | they ca n't necessarily give you more er erm do n't suppose you want to get me a cloth do you ? |
| 15 | Well of course I ca n't possibly give you any figure of how often , but bullying occasionally happens in the Army . |
| 16 | I ca n't quite remember what all that 's in it now . |
| 17 | I 've got a few awards over the years , and I ca n't quite remember what some of them were given for , but I 've only ever got one for writing and that 's the one I would n't want to give away . |
| 18 | Which I ca n't quite see what that 's got to do with a television company but |
| 19 | Maybe he 's annoyed because he ca n't quite figure what all this has to do with what the programme describes as ‘ the cyberspace experience ’ , maybe it 's because a minute ago he was nearly run over by a 30-foot-high mutoid metal minotaur , but he looks about ready to chin someone . |
| 20 | ‘ It looks like an old-fashioned sunbonnet , ’ she pronounced , ‘ I ca n't really see what all the fuss is about . ’ |
| 21 | I ca n't really criticize it all really . |
| 22 | As he reached the door , with a variety of helpful obstructions he shouted his Parthian shot — ‘ You ca n't bloody have it both ways … ’ |