Example sentences of "can not [vb infin] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But manager Howard Wilkinson 's hopes that Batty would be available to spark a revival at Elland Road were dashed yesterday when the player said : ‘ I ca n't set a comeback date and if things do n't improve soon I 'll have to see a specialist . ’ |
| 2 | Well I ca n't wear a wedding ring now , it , just cos it 's so wide , it 's a really wide one . |
| 3 | ‘ I ca n't do a riding turn , darling , ’ said his wife . |
| 4 | My word , you ca n't beat a dawn journey , ’ he said , pleased . |
| 5 | Why then do I remain seated for Sally Field , in soft focus , gulping back emotion , Sigourney Weaver groping for emotion — any emotion — and Kathleen Turner proving once again that she ca n't open a fridge door without flexing a buttock . |
| 6 | I ca n't fit a cooker hood in my kitchen so can you give me some advice on extractors ? |
| 7 | Meanwhile this young woman ca n't face a court case and must stay put until she finds new accommodation . |
| 8 | It was a coup d'etat. ’ -Margaret Thatcher ‘ As for the leaders of the former Alliance parties , I will say no more than this : they have never learned what every woman knows — that you ca n't make a souffle rise twice . ’ |
| 9 | On Thursday night you ca n't make a phone call , if you ca n't |
| 10 | Well you ca n't make a wedding cake without glace cherries . |
| 11 | She knows I ca n't refuse a spirit wife , and on balance she prefers that I fuck Avavnuk rather than have affairs with ordinary women . |
| 12 | You ca n't , you ca n't put a waste pipe that . |
| 13 | I ca n't stick a tape machine on my desk and leave it running . |
| 14 | ‘ Barry , I ca n't see a goshdarn thing . ’ |
| 15 | It ca n't become a pop show , it has to stay the way it is . |
| 16 | If you want to grow tomatoes but ca n't keep a greenhouse standing , you find something equally useful . |
| 17 | And you ca n't develop a prototype system because the users have n't got a clue what they want . |
| 18 | So you ca n't use a punchcard carriage on an electronic machine . |
| 19 | If you ca n't use a credit card the next best options are a crossed cheque , a postal order , or try to persuade the company to take cash on delivery , once you 've had time to inspect the goods , of course . |
| 20 | You know as you ca n't use a tennis court for anything else or bowling green for anything else . |
| 21 | If this is something that maybe in the future , then you ca n't use a Mortgage Master for a , for a future house purchase , you can use the P S P . |
| 22 | I note that the , this Institute of Trading Standards Administration suggests a title such as Director of Consumer and Trades Services , Director of Health and Consumer Services , Head of Regulatory Services , and Department of , I do n't want to , you ca n't call a person department . |
| 23 | An aid worker in Jordanian refugee camps ca n't get a TV crew from the West interested in tens of thousands of people from the ‘ Third World ’ who are about to die from starvation — all the crews are off watching Richard Branson pick up a couple of hundred westerners in one of his Virgin Jumbo Jets . |
| 24 | I have n't dear , no I ca n't get a bus pass but I get the grant from the Council in er January twenty five pound we get to help towards the fuel bills you see , no . |
| 25 | I know , you ca n't get a set cheque book . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've phoned the agent in Palermo , but he ca n't get a replacement set sent down before tomorrow afternoon . ’ |
| 27 | It was a particular thing , an episode , a historical event , one ca n't extract a world meaning from it , or a cosmic signal , history is n't like that . ’ |
| 28 | As I ca n't afford a docking station and the notebook wo n't accept an external keyboard , I 'm left with the A4-sized platform as my only writing tool . |
| 29 | Many schools ca n't afford a music teacher and private lessons are expensive . |
| 30 | Dr Pugh said equipment such as stair gates and fire guards could help cut down on accidents , but added : ‘ The reality is most people ca n't afford a cycling helmet and the price of safety gates is quite horrendous . ’ |