Example sentences of "can [adv] [adv] [vb infin] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't feel benevolent and sympathetic , you ca n't just want everything to be nice , as if Jack were a child , and as if I were a child . |
| 2 | ‘ I can understand your reluctance to talk about what 's happened but you ca n't just push it to one side . |
| 3 | Yeah , everyone was going on at how rough they are , I mean you ca n't as I 've said before you ca n't exactly expect them to be super models . |
| 4 | ‘ I ca n't possibly allow myself to be happy now , because I had an affair/caused a car crash/stole some money/had sex with my brother or sister/ was cruel to my dog/betrayed my best friend — five , ten or twenty years ago . |
| 5 | you ca n't safely send them to the toilet alone . |
| 6 | I ca n't actually give it to you because it will amuse suspicion from the guard . |
| 7 | Er well I ca n't really sing it to you , cos it 's on tape at the moment . |
| 8 | We can only freely give ourselves to someone else when we are ‘ real persons ’ — just as Harry was beginning to see in the play . |
| 9 | The shark can not suddenly twist them to a vertical position to act as brakes . |
| 10 | At least certain of the theories of probability , notably the frequency theory , can not possibly allow it to be meaningful to speak of the probability of single events , and hence can not be used in analysis of particular causal beliefs , those which are most common . |
| 11 | This week the club lost captain David Rees to Newport and coach Paul Evans has decided he can no longer commit himself to the club because of the pressures of his Welsh Under-21 assistant coaching duties . |
| 12 | She promised herself , however , that she would hold the office only briefly , and now that her husband Stan has retired , she feels that she can no longer involve herself to so great an extent in commitments and activities that take her away from home . |
| 13 | You can bloody well treat me to a couple of Cokes when the shops open . ’ |