Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [not/n't] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " You 've been lovely and I 'm leading you on but I ca n't deliver at the moment . |
| 2 | ‘ I know it all sounds good , ’ she says , ‘ but what I want most of all is to spend more time with my little girl — and that 's the one thing I ca n't do at the moment . ’ |
| 3 | And I did n't go , but a chap that I knew from whose name I ca n't remember at the moment , did go and he was killed within about three months of his er arriving in Africa . |
| 4 | I ca n't remember at the policy and resources why it was decided by a majority because in in replying to this report on making our comments to this report , I first had consultations with officers to go through some of the items that we had done and issues that we had covered in this authority especially the members ' services sub committee and we knocked off the bare bones of er a report to the policy and resources committee and the policy . |
| 5 | I ca n't get at the underside of my staircase ; how can I fix loose treads from above ? |
| 6 | ‘ I ca n't train at the moment , ’ he added . |
| 7 | You ca n't stand at the front door and say no you ca n't come in at all apart from its being completely irrational erm the point would be that , because I have an obligation to carry out this work , I have a right to the means to fulfil that obligation . |
| 8 | Now of course you ca n't predict at the level of the individual school what the population is going to be , but you can nevertheless be very clear that the system as a whole is going to have many erm fewer pupils . |
| 9 | The result is as many blank pages as Ventura can build into the current chapter and you ca n't get at the tagged block of text to de-select it ! |
| 10 | If you ca n't look at the rushes , you come in every day wondering . |
| 11 | She ca n't talk at the moment . |
| 12 | But no one has said that you can not sit at the table and talk to your family , even if you choose not to eat . |
| 13 | We ca n't buy at the moment . |
| 14 | Our problem is we ca n't get at the buyers . |
| 15 | ‘ So we ca n't get at the marriage certificate , ’ George brooded . |
| 16 | We can not sleep at the new night time , we feel tired during the daytime ( at a time corresponding to night in the time zone we have just left ) , and our appetite is upset . |
| 17 | It is expected that adoption of each of these programmes will be delayed and this in turn will affect dates for calls for proposals , publicity events , etc , although we can not tell at the moment how long the delay will last and the consequences it may have . |
| 18 | Tragically , we can not negotiate at the moment , but that will be put right before too long . |
| 19 | Bill Walker , Conservative MP for Tayside North , says : ‘ We can not continue at the current level of borrowing , so some new source of income has to be found . |
| 20 | As Einstein expressed it : ‘ The world that we have made at the level of thinking we have done so far , creates problems we can not solve at the same level of thinking ’ . |
| 21 | We can not park at the weekend and people are already parking on the grass verge . ’ |
| 22 | A happy theatre a happy ship if you like a corny phrase to use is very very apparent and I 'm sure my colleagues and friends around here would appreciate because they do believe they ca n't get at the management committee and they would like to so please Tom will that be possible at some time in the near future ? |
| 23 | The fact that they ca n't look at the real problems makes them attack someone or something else . |
| 24 | FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election . |
| 25 | This fellowship does not of course embrace Rome ; in Pilgrim 's Progress , Christian encounters Giant Pope , old and biting his nails because he can not get at the pilgrims , and mumbling to them , ‘ You will never mend till more of you be burned . ’ |