Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we are old we take longer to recover and because we ca n't discharge them to nursing kind of beds then there 'll be back up in the John Radcliffe Hospital and extra pressure there . |
| 2 | Lentils coming from Ethiopia , you get wheat from the States , rice from the States , ap apples from France , tea from India , coffee from Brazil and Columbia , sugar from the Windward Islands , bananas from all over the place , you know those are the things that keep us alive , no , you know , whether we one think they are or not , but I mean them things are what keeps the economy alive for one , it 's also what keeps us personally alive if you do n't know why we take an interest in Third World issues , I would say that it 's that , we 're dependent on these countries , we could produce enough foods for our own needs , but we would n't have oranges , coffee , tea , sugar , you know cos we ca n't grow them in this country we , we really depend on those things to stay alive , and for that reason alone we should have some kind of interest , if you went to Kenya for example they would be staggered at how little you know about their country given how much they know about yours they know a lot about this country , a lot of it is a bit loopy , but then what you know about their country is probably a bit off centre as well , and you know I hope that this is something that we 're reversing in this section , our perceptions of the Third World or the south or whatever we choose to call it , colour a lot of the things that we think and do and say and it increases the amount of racism that there is around us all , all those kind of things , erm and I think that it is really important to look at what a perception is , you know , for example what 's your perception of this ? |
| 3 | South Sussex may be ludicrously over-confident , but we ca n't beat them with three players . ’ |
| 4 | However , how does that come about , I mean if supposing you were a , a member of a very large group like the Catholic Church getting on to a billion people say , well you ca n't possibly identify with a billion other people you ca n't meet them in one lifetime let alone ties with them , so how does , how does narcissistic libido unify the members of vast groups like the Catholic Church ? |
| 5 | I ca n't leave them like this ! ’ |
| 6 | You ca n't sing them in nineteen ninety three and get away with it . |
| 7 | ‘ We ca n't match them at that but they ca n't match the way we play . |
| 8 | I thought you ca n't see them at all can you |
| 9 | The parents ca n't see them like this . ’ |
| 10 | We ca n't have them till this work 's done |
| 11 | Ca n't have them in mucky dishes . |
| 12 | You know , you ca n't amuse them at that ta er can you ? |
| 13 | I ca n't criticise them in any way . |
| 14 | An observer at a distance from the black hole can measure only the outgoing particles , and he can not correlate them with those that fall into the hole because he can not observe them . |
| 15 | For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction , and this implies that one should not accept them at all , since one can not universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them . |
| 16 | The American expression for this position is to say that the resources of a local authority are not ‘ fungible ’ , meaning that we can not treat them as one mass . |
| 17 | In a sense one can not blame them for that , but we in the SSPCA feel that it would be much better if some of those payments from the Government came in the form of food tokens which could be redeemed when farmers purchased feeding stocks . ’ |
| 18 | But I can not denounce them in other people 's words . |