Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ca n't sit here all day ! ’ |
| 2 | But I ca n't sit here all night . |
| 3 | She had booked a sleeper from Paris in terms of time — " I ca n't sit up all night " — not distance " I am going a long way south . " |
| 4 | That woman canes the girls , and the man birches the boys , and sometimes they ca n't sit down all day . |
| 5 | Say something , there 's a love — come on , you ca n't sit there all night … |
| 6 | Consuelo ca n't carry on all day , when she 's stayed there all night . |
| 7 | I said , each person sitting in this room is entitled to their emotions and if you 're unhappy then you should do something about it , because you ca n't carry on this way with this tension , it 's not productive , it 's not fun … ‘ |
| 8 | This computer is a pretty pathetic one basically and it ca n't hold very much information programme and so once it 's had five records fed into it 's memory it 's full up which is pretty pathetic given the size of each record . |
| 9 | ‘ Missus , we ca n't stay here all day . |
| 10 | You ca n't stay up all night . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He ca n't stay there all winter , ’ said Libby as they slipped out early , the house having been woken by their father getting up , trying to pull his boots on , shutting the dogs in the boiler shed so that they would not follow . |
| 12 | I ca n't stand around all day chit-chatting . |
| 13 | " We ca n't stand here all night on the pavement like this , " he said , still with the two keys in his hand . |
| 14 | You ca n't stand there all night talking nonsense . ’ |
| 15 | And here the manuscript fragment ends , so we ca n't tell how much work lies behind such simple touches as Stepan 's fear that ‘ they ’ will flog him . |
| 16 | It 's very unusual to find a senior civil servant in France who ca n't speak either good English or good German or both , and it does make communications a lot easier . |
| 17 | Oh I ca n't speak very well English and I |
| 18 | I CA N'T HANG AROUND ALL DAY . |
| 19 | You ca n't see down that part of the cloister leading off from the chapel into the convent . |
| 20 | But Susan was saying she ca n't see how one thing 's got anything to do with the other , she did n't go joy riding |
| 21 | I ca n't see how that chain fits on him ! |
| 22 | The incoherence I think is that you ca n't ever say that anyone has lost because you do n't know what 's happening in the second and third and fourth erm batch , so I ca n't see how this system is meant to work , Mill seems to be fairly confident that it will . |
| 23 | I ca n't see how any body can justify spending two thousand pounds on , on getting a bit of fat removed some |
| 24 | Moreover , I ca n't understand why some press still remain , because I steadfastly refuse to comment . |
| 25 | I ca n't understand why this part of Doncaster is forty mile an hour ! |
| 26 | No and I ca n't see wh no well I , we made it , I 'm not against making it stronger , but I ca n't understand why this suggestion has been made . |
| 27 | I know them council houses are n't usually but I mean I ca n't visualize how much land there is . |
| 28 | Well , I ca n't remember how much room there was left at Riley House . |
| 29 | ‘ But — we ca n't get anywhere this way , ’ the girl said . |
| 30 | Then you feel guilty about the children — they ca n't get as much love and attention from one parent , so you worry they 're missing out . |