Example sentences of "can n't [verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | annoying cos I sort of flared up with them and said , Well quote me the law , and they ca n't quote you the law I mean they it 's just someone who they seem to be we do it . |
| 2 | " You ca n't think what a lot went to waste before they invented fridges , " she told me . |
| 3 | He ca n't offer him a challenge like that . |
| 4 | ‘ I have , ’ he answered slowly , ‘ but remember I am only a poor country vicar , and ca n't offer you a job with a high salary , so you may not wish to accept it . |
| 5 | ‘ The EEC time clock on the lorry means we ca n't do anyone a favour . |
| 6 | It do n't get done without it 's me what does it , and I ca n't do it every day with them buggers throwing stuff all over the carpet . |
| 7 | Mind you , if you ca n't do it the weather will automatically do it for you , unless you plan to take a pneumatic drill into the garden with you in December . |
| 8 | because she was in pain again in had it strapped up again said come and see me in a week see if it 's any better but erm she 's injured it but not er you know it 's obviously she ca n't move it a lot that way which is what 's effecting her , but mind you once she gets back on her bike again , as it 's cold weather |
| 9 | I ca n't tell you the dreck we 're going to have in it . |
| 10 | It comes in handy , know a blue car and I think it has a boot , I ca n't tell you the type of , do n't make it up , if you do n't kn know , do n't make it up . |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't tell you the reason , ’ he murmured . |
| 12 | I 'm sure you ca n't be keeping her so busy that she ca n't spare me an hour or so . ’ |
| 13 | And I ca n't send them a present . |
| 14 | They run a perfectly good … well they probably ca n't miss something the size of America . |
| 15 | I mean my belief is that if Standard Life and M and G ca n't show me a profit on a , a good managed fund , I doubt that anybody in a another institute is going to do any better . |
| 16 | I ca n't make myself an exception . |
| 17 | There are , however , clear attempts to make us giggle , like when the Swamp Thing ( Dick Durock ) conceives a passion for Heather Locklear 's leading lady but tells her that he ca n't give her the love she wants because he 's a plant . |
| 18 | but y I ca n't I have to say and I know right ca n't give her what she wants is somebody to sit down somebody to sit her down and talk to her and you ca n't give her the benefit of that because it 's a little battle right between the two silly little girls if you like and if that j if that happens had won right and that 's the way will feel it |
| 19 | Now we have n't got X in it yet so we ca n't give them the answer in that form cos they |
| 20 | Volume numbers of Unix-based PC 's are n't there yet and Motif ca n't give us the cash returns we 're looking for with this product ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ I ca n't give you a refund , ’ she blurted . |
| 22 | They ca n't give you a purpose or meaning in life . |
| 23 | I , I 've got to have something from you ten people , you ten recording people because , because it 's reasonably erm , represented , like , I ca n't give it , in other words I ca n't give you a chance to explain this as much as I would like to , because it 's not fair on the other people . |
| 24 | I ca n't give you a figure now , on how many American firms there are in the county , erm , but I can do some work on it and come back to you . |
| 25 | I ca n't give you a pound . |
| 26 | ‘ I ca n't give you a reason . |
| 27 | Yes , erm I ca n't give you a reason why I think it 's important though . |
| 28 | I ca n't give you a strategy on how to fund the National Health Service . |
| 29 | Erm we expect to see improvements on chlorine , but I ca n't give you a time . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't know what that question means , so I certainly ca n't give you an answer . |