Example sentences of "ca n't really [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been lucky with the only real audition I did which was for the RSC , I ca n't really complain about it . |
| 2 | I ca n't really complain … ’ |
| 3 | We ca n't really complain of being immediately affected by all the building , and we can still see Oban Bay and the ferries coming and going ( at a distance , it 's true ) , but it 's a bit of a shock to find a major extension to Oban on our doorstep , more or less . |
| 4 | I ca n't really clarify that . |
| 5 | ‘ You ca n't really compare Kylie with anyone else around at the moment , and probably never will . |
| 6 | Although many pubs , shopping centres , garden centres and schools have stepped into the breach , their play areas ca n't really compare with a good adventure playground in the local park . |
| 7 | Occasionally you can say you think they 're being stupid or have they thought about other things but at the end of the day people are answerable erm for their own decisions I feel and , if I have an opportunity I 'll tell them what I think , but er if people are n't wanting your opinion then you ca n't really give it |
| 8 | And I ca n't really give you a satisfactory explanation as to why that is . |
| 9 | It 's a matter of background and philosophy , which one ca n't really explain or analyse . |
| 10 | Graham Goodwin , a biochemist who jettisoned a career in molecular biology at Cambridge ( ‘ I ca n't really explain why ; just something missing ’ ) , now works around the farm . |
| 11 | You ca n't really explain it … |
| 12 | It was a strange sensation and I ca n't really explain it . |
| 13 | He seemed — in a way I ca n't really explain — to be protective towards me and also ashamed of me , for the sake of my mother perhaps . |
| 14 | The defence lawyer said O'Donnell ‘ ca n't really explain why he was in the restaurant with a drill . |
| 15 | Well no not really because erm it , it was a private company as you can understand er , I can I ca n't really explain it everyone seemed to be pulling together you know that was the last thing you thought of , fifth columnists , things like that although it was they used to er , every now and again they used to send government national service officers round to look at the personnel and the structure of the working and if they thought anybody was superfluous to requirements they 'd get the papers soon after to go into the army or the services yeah , yeah , that is true and that happened , used to happen in factories all round the area , it was called the Essential Works Order . |
| 16 | I think one person who is in their thirty or forties or two people so , you know you ca n't really quantify that very easily . |
| 17 | Neil is reluctant to talk about the songs in any more detail : ‘ Like my good friend Bob says , a song is just a thought ; you ca n't really talk about a little part of it without taking the whole thing into consideration . ’ |
| 18 | I ca n't really talk about it now . |
| 19 | I ca n't really go into details I 'm afraid , but , yes , it 's for the final push . ’ |
| 20 | I ca n't really go along with these performance figures — not given our last intelligence reports on the MiG projects into the 80's . ’ |
| 21 | So long as you keep the Looms properly oiled and follow the rules you ca n't really go far wrong . |
| 22 | But this has spread quite rapidly , it ca n't really go beyond here , cos the skin is quite tight . |
| 23 | It was not until an Indian secretary arrived and said " Well I 'm sorry , you ca n't really go up , the Harem is up there . " |
| 24 | you ca n't really go round their house |
| 25 | Umm , the kids come round here to get all their toys so there 's a big sort of ridge there so it ca n't really go over that |
| 26 | That 's a complicated story I ca n't really go into at the moment , but was very much to do with the Royal Policies of the 1630s . |
| 27 | For once this is going to be a personal review , since I ca n't really stamp an official seal of NI approval on something which is so removed from our normal territory . |
| 28 | You ca n't really dance to it but you can stomp to it . |
| 29 | Okay You ca n't really miss it , it 's where all the ambulances are . |
| 30 | ca n't really miss her , such a fat cow . |