Example sentences of "ca [adv] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why ca n't somebody give it to the Star then ? |
| 2 | ‘ Ca n't somebody do something ? ’ she asked . |
| 3 | Ca n't somebody do something about these people ? |
| 4 | Competition is potentially high — if it 's easy why ca n't everybody do it ? |
| 5 | I said oh you cunt , said I 'm your troop you ca n't me go in there , he says try me , I said bastard so I fucking right sea , fucking over the right you can come out now , marched back out again gave them a right old on the way back again , get changed again , alright , I thought you cunt |
| 6 | ‘ Why ca n't everyone live their own lives ? ’ |
| 7 | No I ca n't what do you mean twelve ? |
| 8 | I felt I was beginning to lose the battle , and the diary for the remainder of the term is full of expressions of hatred for the school , interspersed with the repeated and heartfelt question , ‘ Why ca n't they leave me alone ? ’ |
| 9 | Why ca n't they leave |
| 10 | Nan why ca n't they leave just a little patch of grass for the fire ? |
| 11 | ‘ What I want to know is , why ca n't they carry on decently , like we used to do ? ’ |
| 12 | But , ca n't they treat it in this country ? |
| 13 | ( why ca n't they tell ? ) — and then dispute your ‘ Yes ’ |
| 14 | Ca n't they tell them to keep their stupid heads down ? |
| 15 | Occasionally that plan backfired and a genuine neurotic would arrive , soon to engage all and sundry in a lengthy discourse about the cold , the warmth and the fact that the automatic door was n't being automatic why oh why oh why do people keep leaving it open , ca n't they think of others for a change , you 'd have thought it was n't too much trouble … |
| 16 | They like training which they can actually apply , that has practical applications so say if you 're thinking of something like erm motivation styles or something like that , if you were gon na introduce Lounslow I du n no at the motivation there are loads of them one 's Lounslow one 's Hertzberg if you were introducing our training to a pragmatist what would be essential is you could actually show the practical application of it , if you just put forward C V and no practical application the pragmatist would say well this is all very well in theory , but how can I apply it to my job and if they ca n't they think well what 's the value of this . |
| 17 | Well ca n't they paint it straight on in the mi , on the ceiling ? |
| 18 | As a volunteer washer-up remarked ‘ if they can get to the Moon , why ca n't they make an etch-proof glass ? ’ |
| 19 | Why ca n't they make July Fourth , July Fifteenth ? |
| 20 | If you work in Florence ca n't they send you ? ’ |
| 21 | Why ca n't they hold it somewhere else in Manchester ? |
| 22 | So why ca n't they do it now ? ’ . that there are close to 200,000 victims of brain injury in the country . |
| 23 | ‘ So why ca n't they do it now ? ’ |
| 24 | If the Government can do it for the Bosnians , why ca n't they do it for the homeless ? |
| 25 | And they want to know why … ’ cos the other children have got them and why ca n't they have this and why ca n't they do this … it 's hard , it 's really hard on them . |
| 26 | ‘ Why ca n't they do something else ? ’ she muttered angrily , her arm sliding into Maggie 's as they left the hotel . |
| 27 | Ca n't they do that ? |
| 28 | Why ca n't they do anything till February ? |
| 29 | That 's right , well why ca n't they go out beside the medical centre , again ? |
| 30 | Why ca n't they go the last mile and ban him from bowling against England batsman who clearly would find reading Sanskrit easier than spotting than ‘ Hollywood 's ’ wrong ‘ un . |