Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But manager Howard Wilkinson 's hopes that Batty would be available to spark a revival at Elland Road were dashed yesterday when the player said : ‘ I ca n't set a comeback date and if things do n't improve soon I 'll have to see a specialist . ’ |
| 2 | Well I ca n't wear a wedding ring now , it , just cos it 's so wide , it 's a really wide one . |
| 3 | ‘ I ca n't do a riding turn , darling , ’ said his wife . |
| 4 | I ca n't beat a London cabbie in rush-hour traffic . |
| 5 | My word , you ca n't beat a dawn journey , ’ he said , pleased . |
| 6 | Why then do I remain seated for Sally Field , in soft focus , gulping back emotion , Sigourney Weaver groping for emotion — any emotion — and Kathleen Turner proving once again that she ca n't open a fridge door without flexing a buttock . |
| 7 | I ca n't fit a cooker hood in my kitchen so can you give me some advice on extractors ? |
| 8 | Meanwhile this young woman ca n't face a court case and must stay put until she finds new accommodation . |
| 9 | Well you ca n't leave a G P to spend the money like he likes , you 've got to have a committee for it . |
| 10 | The spreadsheet ca n't handle an interest rate of 0% , so you have to insert a small number , such as 0.00000001% , in cell B9 . |
| 11 | As one IBMer said : ‘ You ca n't build a $60billion corporation out of selling $400 networking cards . ’ |
| 12 | It was a coup d'etat. ’ -Margaret Thatcher ‘ As for the leaders of the former Alliance parties , I will say no more than this : they have never learned what every woman knows — that you ca n't make a souffle rise twice . ’ |
| 13 | On Thursday night you ca n't make a phone call , if you ca n't |
| 14 | Well you ca n't make a wedding cake without glace cherries . |
| 15 | I know Steve asked if we could go back to Thursdays cos he ca n't make a Wednesday night . |
| 16 | She knows I ca n't refuse a spirit wife , and on balance she prefers that I fuck Avavnuk rather than have affairs with ordinary women . |
| 17 | You ca n't turn the plane to any degree , you ca n't chase an enemy Afterburner -style , and there are n't even token attempts at flight simulation — you ca n't even crash the damned thing , however hard you try ! |
| 18 | You ca n't , you ca n't put a waste pipe that . |
| 19 | Cray is finding it harder and harder to grow its monolithic supercomputers as the world edges towards parallel systems with the view that they will be able to take over many of the tasks presently handled by today 's vector processors , and you ca n't enter an IBM lab these days without stumbling over some kind of parallel processing development project . |
| 20 | I ca n't stick a tape machine on my desk and leave it running . |
| 21 | ‘ Barry , I ca n't see a goshdarn thing . ’ |
| 22 | Taylor acknowledged : ‘ I ca n't remember an England player having such an impact on a team . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I ca n't remember an England player having had such an impact on a team , ’ he said . |
| 24 | It ca n't become a pop show , it has to stay the way it is . |
| 25 | If you want to grow tomatoes but ca n't keep a greenhouse standing , you find something equally useful . |
| 26 | What hang on just a minute sorry ca n't I ca n't hear you you 'll have to speak up I ca n't hear a word Karen lives in Tadcaster oh oh another another another place to avoid really is n't it yes yeah . |
| 27 | plays music , I ca n't hear an alarm clock . |
| 28 | And you ca n't develop a prototype system because the users have n't got a clue what they want . |
| 29 | So you ca n't use a punchcard carriage on an electronic machine . |
| 30 | If you ca n't use a credit card the next best options are a crossed cheque , a postal order , or try to persuade the company to take cash on delivery , once you 've had time to inspect the goods , of course . |