Example sentences of "ca [not/n't] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | Well if you ca n't them to lose their money . |
| 3 | 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 ? ’ |
| 4 | Why ca n't they leave |
| 5 | Nan why ca n't they leave just a little patch of grass for the fire ? |
| 6 | ‘ What I want to know is , why ca n't they carry on decently , like we used to do ? ’ |
| 7 | But , ca n't they treat it in this country ? |
| 8 | ( why ca n't they tell ? ) — and then dispute your ‘ Yes ’ |
| 9 | Ca n't they tell them to keep their stupid heads down ? |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Well ca n't they paint it straight on in the mi , on the ceiling ? |
| 13 | As a volunteer washer-up remarked ‘ if they can get to the Moon , why ca n't they make an etch-proof glass ? ’ |
| 14 | Why ca n't they make July Fourth , July Fifteenth ? |
| 15 | If you work in Florence ca n't they send you ? ’ |
| 16 | Why ca n't they hold it somewhere else in Manchester ? |
| 17 | So why ca n't they do it now ? ’ . that there are close to 200,000 victims of brain injury in the country . |
| 18 | ‘ So why ca n't they do it now ? ’ |
| 19 | If the Government can do it for the Bosnians , why ca n't they do it for the homeless ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Why ca n't they do something else ? ’ she muttered angrily , her arm sliding into Maggie 's as they left the hotel . |
| 22 | Ca n't they do that ? |
| 23 | Why ca n't they do anything till February ? |
| 24 | That 's right , well why ca n't they go out beside the medical centre , again ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Why ca n't they go to France |
| 27 | Why ca n't they dip into modules because once they 've learned that they then come to us and we say right you 're at the stage where you can do the certificate in Industrial Editing sit our exam |
| 28 | I know the tourists are very important to York but for goodness sake it is n't a huge city ca n't they walk round ? |
| 29 | Why ca n't they walk round ? |
| 30 | ‘ Ca n't they give you a prettier room ? ’ |