Example sentences of "ca n't [vb infin] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't explain to a child . ‘ |
| 2 | It is the sort of thing you ca n't explain to a child . ’ |
| 3 | There are many — kissing gates which are too small to allow me through , pathways which drop steeply at the edge so I ca n't move to the side to open the gate , well-meaning people who put deep grit or gravel onto the surface of the path , making my progress slow and tiring , and deep mud where horses and motorbikes have also used the path . |
| 4 | ‘ They simply ca n't return to the war zone , ’ she said . |
| 5 | You ca n't speak to a computer . |
| 6 | I mean you ca n't go to a pub without singing . |
| 7 | The reasoning behind that is that come from a lower class generally if you ca n't you know you ca n't go to a nursery school cos you have to pay for nursery school education in this country . |
| 8 | But the fact that they ca n't go to a machine anywhere and get contraceptives is ridiculous . |
| 9 | " A mother 's place is at home with her child " damns the mothers who are n't and answers my question about why I ca n't go to the nursery . |
| 10 | I do n't know , we ca n't go to the cinema tonight because I 've got to do this work I 've brought home . |
| 11 | You feel that you 're a bit of burden on your friends , perhaps , because you ca n't go to the pub and buy a round of drinks , because you 're bit of a drag on a lot of activities which involve spending some sort of money . |
| 12 | Erm , we I wo n't be there to invigilate the exam but usually there 's some , I mean if you get stuck and you want a break just stick your hand up , but not everybody cos everybody ca n't go to the toilet . |
| 13 | Well nowadays I do n't know whether you should record this or not , but nowadays erm they 'll not go unless they 've been to the bar or something before that well unfortunately Leslie 's not able to drink now , he ca n't after his operation , he ca n't take , it just upsets him altogether so he ca n't go to the bar and all the rest of the company have been to the bar and they 're in a different mood than what Leslie is , so Leslie 'll just not go , and it just , it 's kind of , cut him off |
| 14 | ‘ No , you ca n't go to the doctor every time you get a bit of wind . |
| 15 | we ca n't go to the stage well I mean I ca n't be bothered |
| 16 | ‘ Granted , I ca n't point to a place on the map and say this is where we are , but I 've got a pretty good idea . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Just the branches … ca n't see to the end of the tunnel in either direction . |
| 18 | They they feel they ca n't keep to a timetable for that reason . |
| 19 | Popular culture gives us plenty of female verbal incontinence ( cf the Andy Capp joke : ‘ when two wives get together , who has the last word ? ’ ) and illogical women who ca n't keep to the point ( as a character in the soap opera Coronation Street comments , ‘ you might as well try to knit fog as follow what 's in a woman 's mind ’ ) . |
| 20 | I 'm afraid I ca n't subscribe to the theory that man should always be ‘ bloody , bold and resolute ’ ; but rather , I confess , that it 's very comforting to lean on you sometimes … more especially as I 've a funny instinct that if I follow your ways I ca n't go wrong , whereas my own existence is apt to be hardening , as you can see that it must be . |
| 21 | She wo n't believe he ca n't get to a phone for much longer . |
| 22 | If you ca n't get to a specialist finance library or your library does n't have your texts , we can help you : and we can lend books to you if you give us your membership number and address . |
| 23 | • If you ca n't get to a World Championship this video is the next best . |
| 24 | But , if you ca n't get to the clinic , you could invest in her therapy kit . |
| 25 | No cos it , it was straightforward I think and does n't look to be too much wasted , you , you know they leave all that so I 'll just it a quick , a quick , really a very quick hoover but I ca n't get to the bit where the waste carpet is but er yes it looks nice I think . |
| 26 | If I ca n't get to the person they want I try and say to them , ‘ Look , can you please ring back ’ , because if they left a message , that message would have been lying on my desk until the next morning , until I get round to actually phoning that person internally , saying this person rang . |
| 27 | ‘ She ca n't get to the Camp by going that way because of the Swamp . |
| 28 | Ca n't get to the pod , there are Gharrgoyles looking for me … |
| 29 | and , cos I said to the dealers for a long time you know do n't put them under stairs , do n't put them in store rooms , they get locked , locked up with vacuum cleaners and you ca n't get to the gear when you go to them , do n't put them high up on the wall we ca n't reach them and they just laugh , but er , I think the last laugh 's on us now cos er if I see one high up on the wall , I say well that , I say we 're not accepting that , you have to move it |
| 30 | I just ca n't get to the reason why why you have th this criteria in . |