Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] can [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I fear I can not answer that question to anyone 's satisfaction . |
| 2 | Do you know I ca n't understand that ! |
| 3 | He says yes if you 're paying me a week 's wages and I says I ca n't do that . |
| 4 | And they 've taken the free kick quickly and tried to take full advantage of the situation and the referee has said you ca n't do that . |
| 5 | Cypress says it can only speculate that Sun will become a customer for HyperSparc , though Cypress chief , TJ Rogers , has been sending messages via the press to the effect that if Sun does n't buy HyperSparc , then he 's going to turn around and do the Alpha RISC for DEC ( UX No 384 ) . |
| 6 | I mean you ca n't do that there is no correlation between you ca n't say that all the activists are extroverts cos are actually quite about the way they but they do like to have a go and it does n't say all the reflectors cos they 're sitting back and thinking and they 're actually quiet reflectors . |
| 7 | cock up in , you know in Britain and it would just be the laughing stock , I mean you ca n't do that , you ca n't shelter everybody |
| 8 | I mean you ca n't put that settee here because it it blocks that door . |
| 9 | I mean you ca n't guarantee that |
| 10 | But I do not believe we can truly follow that great commandment unless we have a concept of care and concern for our fellow citizens which is reflected in the organisation of our society . |
| 11 | Now acknowledging what you say Rog , if you consider he ca n't do that work , then as the next phase what we 're gon na have to do , you and I , is to see what action we can take . |
| 12 | ‘ You know I ca n't do that . ’ |
| 13 | It 's a joke you know an awl is a sort of erm instrument thing you know you can just give that . |
| 14 | Er now these , you know you can actually write that in , go on , if you want . |
| 15 | You know , I do , I know we ca n't take that . |
| 16 | well I know they ca n't help that |
| 17 | You do n't hear women saying I ca n't do that cos that 's a man 's job ! |
| 18 | But cos mathematicians are a bit crackers , we want , we do n't like saying I ca n't do that . |
| 19 | That 's right , and I think that erm , yes , there 's a notion that I find useful in talking to students that we all have a comfort zone , there are all things that we know about , that we know how to do and if anything comes up — I mean in business it might be accountancy , we do n't all know how to handle figures , and so that 's an area that we 've hived off in that area and we all know that when we do that we are , as it were , giving up a bit ; we 're saying ‘ well , I ca n't manage I just do n't have I ca n't do that , it 's not for me ’ . |
| 20 | Yet I feel I can not do that without offending you , Li Yuan . |
| 21 | Bill Bill 's coming to me and saying he ca n't do that . |
| 22 | He 'd take her up and she had only her vest on and her socks , and this was getting winter time , so I thought I ca n't have that . |
| 23 | And I looked at her and I thought you ca n't say that ! |
| 24 | But I mean he ca n't do that when she 's there |
| 25 | He used to be the boldest man around , of course , but bolts mean he can now earn that living without risking his life . |
| 26 | erm as regards correlating things together and bunging them into the same factor analysis model and stuff like that er even if the questions are a bit different I think you can still do that legitimately because it 's still sort of expressing the strength of opinion on some sort of scale erm so I do n't see that that 'll er interfere with the ambitions you 've got as regards the data erm so er |
| 27 | ‘ We wo n't change our minds on closure but if the legislation means we ca n't carry that out there is nothing we can do about it . ’ |
| 28 | And since Karajan 's 1977 production of Strauss 's Salome was not filmed we can not recapture that with any certainty , though it exists in purely aural form on record . |
| 29 | She said I ca n't work that out . |
| 30 | Er it 's hard to explain I ca n't explain that . |