Example sentences of "can not [vb infin] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anywhere , sir , I said , and ‘ I 'm afraid we ca n't serve alcohol before departure . ’ |
| 2 | Often she ca n't do PE at school and ca n't walk very far . |
| 3 | I ca n't stand tea with sugar in it . |
| 4 | We Brits may have invented cricket , tennis , football , rugby , golf , darts and bowls but we ca n't lay claim to baseball , ice hockey , American football , ten-pin bowling , rhythmic gymnastics , synchro swimming or sumo wrestling . |
| 5 | You ca n't make love at pistol point … her being filled with remorse , and she checked herself from flinging her arms round Lucy : steady , Jay , she told herself , we 're only seconds away from no , nay , never . |
| 6 | ‘ Charity , if you ca n't see destiny at work in all this , you 're blinder than your glasses , thick as they were , ever led me to believe . ’ |
| 7 | It 's quite funny really because er I used to go off I had an agreement with the headmaster at that particular time and he 'd h I 'd been a full time teacher with him , and he needed somebody desperately , that was the only reason obviously he wanted me back , and er I said Well look I can come back but I ca n't get back in order to go to the assembly at first . |
| 8 | Washing-up Liquid : If you ca n't get hold of bleach you can use diluted washing-up liquid instead . |
| 9 | ‘ Now that they ca n't get hold of cocaine they 'll just crash out . ’ |
| 10 | Reportedly it ca n't get performance from 16-bit Windows applications running on NT , and admits there 's no real point in trying to do it . |
| 11 | Elderly people who worry that they ca n't afford VAT on fuel are putting their lives at risk by buying second hand paraffin heaters . |
| 12 | Emmie said , ‘ I ca n't ask Dad for money for a vet . |
| 13 | We 're talking here of protection , of they ca n't have waiver of premium because of ill-health , they 're not going to be able to have living assurance , so it , it 's not an option really for them to have one without the other , because it 's an automatic protection that , that really should be the basis of somebody 's package of their health commitment to have it . |
| 14 | And I 'm just wondering what the the knock on effect of that is in the visiting of the , the members who ca n't get into church and who ca n't receive communion in church , and who may like to receive it in their home , or in the home , where they live . |
| 15 | ‘ You ca n't mix business with friendship , ’ Jane–urged , ‘ and anyway the friendship is n't that close . |
| 16 | You know you ca n't feel , you ca n't grab hold of light in your hand . |
| 17 | ‘ They ca n't work magic like fairy folk . ’ |
| 18 | Even now I 'll go back and I ca n't play note for note what I played then ; I can get the general feel of it but I can never go back and hit it note for note . |
| 19 | Even now I 'll go back and I ca n't play note for note what I played then ; I can get the general feel of it but I can never go back and hit it note for note |
| 20 | I ca n't say touch for touch how we became lovers because , really , we had been ever since he came into the room and found me still there , waiting and pretending . |
| 21 | We can not separate politics from community action , no matter what we try to do about it , no matter how idealistic we may be . |
| 22 | We can not separate power from sex . |
| 23 | TCGA 1992 , s69(1) deems the trust to be a person who is not resident in the United Kingdom ; 3. the trust is therefore outside the UK capital gains tax regime and the Revenue can not collect tax on capital payments under TCGA 1992 , s87(4) . |
| 24 | Obviously you can not wage war without taxing . |
| 25 | I just can not stand lack of consideration for others : shown by people who park their cars so close that you have to slide in sideways — cleaning both cars with your clothes as you squeeze through the 2in space left for opening the door . |
| 26 | We have forgotten how to read the winds or easily find directions from the stars ; we do not know any more how to read the landscape , and you , Creggan , can not recognize friend from enemy among our own kind . |
| 27 | Conventional double-glazing cuts heat loss by conduction , but can not prevent loss by radiation . |
| 28 | Literary analysis can not extrapolate content from form , and form is determined not by content but by other forms . |
| 29 | The Act also stipulates that a manufacturer 's guarantee can not exclude liability for damage caused or loss suffered as a result of the manufacturer 's negligence . |
| 30 | To summarise the exposition so far , a fiduciary can not exclude liability for fraud , deliberate breach of duty and possibly gross negligence . |