Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] can [not/n't] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean you 've got to stop and think I ca n't carry any more . |
| 2 | And I fear I can not answer that question to anyone 's satisfaction . |
| 3 | Well I mean I ca n't say enough for the people in the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary , I mean they 've got a great burns unit there and I mean er er I think the plastic surgeons and what knot are about they must be some of the best in the world . |
| 4 | Yes , I mean I ca n't see much more than that can I ? |
| 5 | I just think she 's going to have to go and buy a dormobile , I mean I ca n't see any other way round it . |
| 6 | Do you know I ca n't understand that ! |
| 7 | Darius is struggling to finish his , and he 's smearing it round the bowl so it looks like he 's ate it , and I say I ca n't eat any more because I got to stay sober tonight . |
| 8 | And it 's perhaps up to the new civilian C P O to go to the likes of Mick and say I ca n't do this , I have not been trained to do it yet , until I have been trained to do it perhaps P C should continue using his skills . |
| 9 | Experts from the world 's biggest wildlife hospital say they ca n't reach many of the seals , which are dying on inaccessible rocks . |
| 10 | because , you know , erm , most kids these days , especially by the time they 're nine or ten , they 're used to having their own pocket money , and then you , and they say they ca n't do any maths at all , and you say well , if you had a fifty pence and you bought something for twenty four , how much change ? |
| 11 | Regarding the diabetic specialist nurse , yes , of course we would welcome a special unit , but that does seem a bit extravagant when they say they can not find enough money for one nurse . |
| 12 | He says yes if you 're paying me a week 's wages and I says I ca n't do that . |
| 13 | In recent years she 's suffered two heart attacks and been treated for cancer and she says she ca n't stand much more of the strain . |
| 14 | Her doctor says she can not have another operation as it would kill her . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The local MP Robert Jackson who 's also a Minister in the employment department admits the Government has made mistakes , but says they ca n't take all the blame . |
| 17 | Says he ca n't do this any more . |
| 18 | John Toole says he ca n't get enough work done because of a lack of resources and no-one disagrees ! |
| 19 | He says he ca n't see any reason for optimism . |
| 20 | He says he ca n't see any reason for optimism . |
| 21 | Mr Reagan says he can not recollect many of the key events surrounding the scandal , which he says was as much news to him as everyone else . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | Yes , I , I mean you ca n't carry all |
| 25 | I mean you ca n't put that settee here because it it blocks that door . |
| 26 | You ca n't have , I mean you ca n't have all this stuff . |
| 27 | I mean you ca n't guarantee that |
| 28 | ‘ You mean you ca n't accept any more of his money ? ’ |
| 29 | He does n't take , it 's strange , although it 's made originally with gin soaking the slows you ca n't taste any thing of the gin , slows kill it completely , cos I loathe the smell of gin , I ca n't stand it . |
| 30 | Well there 's two things I 'd like I ca n't have both of them I thought I 'd have a prawn and cocktail |