Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , ’ she said , ‘ I ca n't sit in the kitchen . |
| 2 | But I ca n't sit in the car very long . |
| 3 | I ca n't think in the art , in the art thing cos I like to I 'd just finished my coffee as well and |
| 4 | an injection and been back for a check up , yes it 's a good thirty pounds , you ca n't step in the door really without twenty five pounds . |
| 5 | You ca n't stay in the middle of a battle . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I ca n't stay in the World indefinitely , ’ said Michael the next day . |
| 7 | She believes she ca n't stay in the refuge because her husband knows where it is — they live nearby — and she ca n't stay with her relatives because he 's threatened them , too . |
| 8 | and if you ca n't stay in the east , you want to stay in the east of the city ? |
| 9 | You ca n't stand in the way of progress ! |
| 10 | While she was absorbing that little gem , ‘ I never thought I would ever accept a working wife , but , ’ he paused and gave her a private smile , ‘ if that 's what my darling wants , I just ca n't stand in the way of her choice to continue working . ’ |
| 11 | and also the carpet companies in my constituency are now going to Germany to buy up their now redundant carpet making machinery precisely because German companies ca n't compete in the kind of regime that they are have imposed upon them . |
| 12 | We ca n't sleep in the door . |
| 13 | ‘ You ca n't sleep in the car . ’ |
| 14 | It can be , yeah we had a stop for lunch , we had to have cups of tea , we had to go to ou , out the back and have a fag cos we ca n't smoke in the office . |
| 15 | you ca n't go in the sea for about two days , and you ca n't go in the sun |
| 16 | you ca n't go in the sea for about two days , and you ca n't go in the sun |
| 17 | Anyway you ca n't go in the car cos you 've had some drink . |
| 18 | You ca n't win in the end , whichever way you play it . |
| 19 | I ca n't see in the dark . |
| 20 | Ca n't fly in the dark . |
| 21 | Well he said you ca n't both , ca n't get in the front of that . |
| 22 | Well And then there 's there 's y er y he ca n't get in the house cos you 're in the way and he 's trying to push past and y we do n't know where the hell to go . |
| 23 | I frankly ca n't deal in the time allowed with what Mr said , I have never heard so many inaccuracies and misconceptions in a speech , it was the most comprehensive political suicide speech I 've heard yet in this council . |
| 24 | She added : ‘ We just ca n't take in the fact that a life with so much to offer has been suddenly ended . |
| 25 | Then a number of things we ca n't follow in the fossil record , but we know must have happened . |
| 26 | You ca n't park in the close without a … ’ |
| 27 | You ca n't live in the past ; you ca n't deny it , but you ca n't live in it . |
| 28 | I ca n't live in the muck of it all the while . |
| 29 | Oh I ca n't , I ca n't work in the morning though . |
| 30 | I said and and captain ca n't drive in the dark . |