Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can I ca n't eat a full yoghurt , so a little set yoghurt |
| 2 | I ca n't I ca n't eat a full meal though ! |
| 3 | We ca n't eat a full meal anyway and they charge |
| 4 | You might say " I am no artist " , or " I ca n't draw a straight line " , or " I have n't drawn or painted since I left school . " . |
| 5 | You ca n't draw a hard line between international and national politics not these days . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's puzzled me for years that four times out of five the Wheel is recovered , but I ca n't recollect a single instance of the Scapegoat being brought in . ’ |
| 7 | I ca n't shake a lingering vision of her straining eagerly against Casey , and I half blame her for it as if it were true . |
| 8 | We ca n't ignore the next year ahead . |
| 9 | Jonathan Rickford , British Telecom 's director of government relations , said in a telephone briefing from Washington , ‘ There has to be a little give and take … there 's no reason we ca n't resolve the whole thing . ’ |
| 10 | You ca n't link a whole range to a whole range , you can only have to one cell . |
| 11 | ‘ You ca n't waste a good supply of spliff ! ’ |
| 12 | Just as " big-step reductionism " can not work as an explanation of mechanism , and must be replaced by a series of small step-by-step peelings down through the hierarchy , so we ca n't explain a complex thing as originating in a single step . |
| 13 | In any event , if you ca n't manage a simpler case you are surely not going to succeed with the more difficult one . |
| 14 | ( PS The Editor 's brain ca n't manage the first teaser . |
| 15 | Perhaps might not be it , ca n't , you ca n't wave a magic wand and say everything 's but they might not . |
| 16 | Skill is one of the most important elements in the champion 's make-up , because if he ca n't perform the right technique at the right time and in the right way , he will never make it to the winner 's rostrum . |
| 17 | ‘ We ca n't fix a definite time of death until after the post mortem , but we 're working on the assumption that it was shortly after the time agreed for the rendezvous — midnight . |
| 18 | But we ca n't start the serious business until the brandy arrives . |
| 19 | ‘ Educationists , as you call them , ca n't measure the full potential because they have such primitive tools and methods of assessment . |
| 20 | You ca n't fool a black audience . |
| 21 | " Oh come now , dear , you ca n't fool an old hand like me " She smiled complacently down at her swiftly-flashing knitting needles . |
| 22 | The answer is nothing — great Champagne is without equal and you ca n't reproduce the unique climate and soil conditions of its birthplace anywhere else in the world . |
| 23 | Says one Norton executive : ‘ Even Honda ca n't design a new bike in a matter of months . |
| 24 | ‘ That must be why we have to stop the ceremony — to make sure he ca n't tap the mental energy of the congregation and use it to supplement the Old One 's autonomic functions enough to pull the rest of it out of the Vortex , ’ Ace finished , and sat back with a cheery grin . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , we ca n't ruin an age-old custom for the sake of an absent mistress , can we ? ’ she interrupted as she untwined her legs and stood up to face him . |
| 26 | If you do n't know the words if you do n't know what the Spanish or lemonade or you ca n't spell the darn thing you 'll get a low mark right . |
| 27 | You just ca n't level the same accusation at Rickenbacker , since they 've always made good stuff . |
| 28 | Eldorado creator who ca n't watch a single episode |
| 29 | Mr Fishbane is obsessed with sex and while I imagine he ca n't do a great deal about it any more , poor old boy , until he 's finished his breakfast he 's almost out of control if he spies an attractive girl . ’ |
| 30 | There 's a sense in which editors are very good at deciding what headlines are , and there 's , there 's a sense which you ca n't do a great deal about it . |