Example sentences of "ca n't [adv] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , Dr Rydell ca n't yet test this idea as he does n't know where his bats roost in the spring and autumn , but his case is supported by the behaviour of another insectivorous bat , the parti-coloured bat , in Denmark . |
| 2 | We 'll let it lie for now , and if we do get any kind of a big response then maybe we can think about scheduling another programme , but I ca n't honestly see that happening . ’ |
| 3 | Yesterday the Labour coordinating committee met for its annual get together , now this is the body that has set itself the task of modernizing the Labour Party , a difficult task at the best of times , made more difficult now because there is a growing shortage of volunteers for the cause , they ca n't even raise enough members to fill their own executive . |
| 4 | And I was thinking , I ca n't even get these ones let alone the two liners . |
| 5 | A , an annual gay party in Sidney , B , a oh I ca n't even say that word , hang on |
| 6 | Goodness me , are you both so young that you ca n't even share any thing ? |
| 7 | I 'd just been talking to the guard , twelve hour shifts , sixty hours a week and he ca n't even have any time off for tea breaks or meal breaks . |
| 8 | You 've got to think about something , thinking is very hard , you ca n't just sit all day and do it , even religious solitaries read and say prayers , when the human mind goes beyond anything perceivable there 's no proof any more . |
| 9 | ‘ You ca n't just damp these things down . ’ |
| 10 | I 'll have a look , but I 've had him doing actual words , like first words er , you know erm , Ben and large and in and out and just the , the easy words and Luke and his own name , so he is already got the idea that when you write a letter you ca n't just write any letter , you 've got to make letters say something either as erm , as an alphabet or in the form of words , so of course she says to , would you all like to write me a sentence , well he 's already passed that stage , he thinks himself well I ca n't write a sentence , what he knows as a sentence consists of words that make sense , so they 're all sitting there going a N , N , N , Q , R , S , N , T , T , and they 're saying a sentence like I went to the shops with my nanny , well Alex has already passed that stage , he knows that that is n't sensible , so he must of turned to her and he said , I ca n't write like that , my mummy will shout at me |
| 11 | I 'm sorry , Dad , but I ca n't just let this thing pass — sit back and pretend it has n't happened . |
| 12 | Because Neil plays very hard he produces a lot of power through the pickups , and he has recently realised that he ca n't just put any pickup with any EQ system , otherwise the signal from the bass simply overloads things … |
| 13 | You actually have a sense of style , there are three different sections to that description and you have , and there is actually some repetition involved erm , by by starting each , by by this reference to the sight , the smell , the touch , and you have to , and and that 's the kind of sty stylistic element that you have to incorporate into your version and I put a note at the bottom too , that there are times when you ca n't totally update this kind of work . |
| 14 | He grew up in a depressed community and would never forget what he saw there : ‘ I used to watch the wheel of the pit spin round year after year , after school and Saturdays and Sundays ; and then from 1926 on I watched it not turning at all , and I ca n't ever get that wheel out of my mind . ’ |
| 15 | You ca n't possibly do this job , ’ but his cases were always brought to a conclusion in the minimum time and , more importantly , with the minimum expense . |
| 16 | It 's all too easy to think that whatever we do here in Britain ca n't possibly have any effect on people in countries thousands of miles away . |
| 17 | When st when staff ca n't all receive that information at the same time but they y'know they can read but they need the information but that ca n't all receive it simultaneously they as many staff many staff , one more and the last one is one you like computer stuff like that where you 've got a lot of detailed information you know that you want detailed information |
| 18 | ‘ E gives people a heightened sense of well-being , ’ she says , ‘ but when people go to nightclubs they ca n't actually dance all night , so they take amphetamines to overcome tiredness . ’ |
| 19 | It seems you ca n't actually lose either way , does n't it ? |
| 20 | But it , you ca n't then put that information together with other information because they 're actually telling us different things , if you see what I mean ? |
| 21 | There 's only half the class so you ca n't really throw many eggs and rotten tomatoes and things can you ? |
| 22 | Cos you ca n't really get that red through without crushing it . |
| 23 | ‘ Ca n't really see that house , either ; too many trees . ’ |
| 24 | But after a few years of this , you ca n't really see any attraction in it , except the security , of course . |
| 25 | The only thing is I ca n't really put much salad in them there , because salad does n't freeze awfully well |
| 26 | In fact , as Christmas has been disappointing here I ca n't really foresee this year being much better than 1992 . ’ |
| 27 | Ca n't bloody keep any boilers there . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , just that if these things are as good at imitation as they appear to be , then we ca n't entirely trust each other from now on . |