Example sentences of "can not [verb] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And with a decent meal including large bottles of local beer for around £5 , there 's no reason why you ca n't treat yourself to the colourful ‘ Egyptian night out ’ with cabaret , belly dancing and a multi-course meal held regularly at the plush Ramses Hilton for about £25 . |
| 2 | Instead of seeing the person depicted on the duckpond surface of the polaroids , he sees an amalgam : this one 's slightly dark upper lip , this one 's nervy legs , this one 's role in Le Médecin malgré lui at the Comédie Française ( where he has recently sat through an excruciating evening of seventeenth-century high camp ) , this one 's intensely white and brown eyes , this one 's professed love of Shakespeare , this one 's part in an erotic thriller ( he can remember her buttocks from that movie , but he ca n't fix them to the right actress without his notes ) . |
| 3 | The first one is John Stuart Mill 's objection which is that we ca n't leave everything to the people . |
| 4 | This week I want to start by reconsidering that first objection but we ca n't leave everything to the people . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , we ca n't leave you to the wolves . |
| 6 | if you ca n't make it to the Manor do n't forget to switch on and cheer the Central Live match this sunday afternoon … what else is going on … headlines in action round up |
| 7 | They ca n't prove anything to the contrary and who is there hereabouts who knows anything about loss of memory and how long such a state lasts ? |
| 8 | ‘ Bet you ca n't get them to the sink , Wattling . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 've got some papers but I ca n't take them to the police , can I ? |
| 10 | What we 're asking for is is a phone to the people who ca n't afford it to the police stations . |
| 11 | You 're sure I ca n't drive you to the airport ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He ca n't say anything to the umpires even if there was a complaint that they have been biased . ’ |
| 13 | We can not leave it to the of individual members , that would produce chaos and could leave to destructive manoeuvring . |
| 14 | A worn out slob , he can not accustom himself to the idea of women playing the sport seriously . |
| 15 | I am sure that your council will understand that the company can not commit itself to the long term investment programme , or expose itself to the commercial risks involved in the project , unless the facilities can be planned in a climate of security . |
| 16 | High living is become essential to them , and they can not reconcile themselves to the moderate pay of lawful industry . |
| 17 | Shevardnadze concluded : " I can not reconcile myself to the events which are taking place in our country and to the trials which await our people . |
| 18 | He stated himself that he did not believe that neurotic symptoms all had a sexual cause and berated a student writing a paper on chess saying , ‘ you can not reduce everything to the Oedipus Complex ’ . |
| 19 | Using the cover of the bushes or whatever , I crouch as low as possible and manoeuvre myself into a position where I know I could cast to them , not forgetting to make a note of a landing site , for it is useless to hook a fish if you can not play it to the landing net . |
| 20 | If we decided to introduce a new category in the ‘ status ’ attribute , called coursework , having a ‘ unit-points ’ attached of 10 , we can not add it to the relation MODULE ( Figure 3.25(b) ) because we have not decided which ‘ module ’ or modules to attach it to . |
| 21 | Again , I respect my hon. Friend 's strongly held personal views , but Parliament has expressed its views and I can not add anything to the answer that I gave to the two previous questions . |