Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] can [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of two days you say well fine but it 's not for me I ca n't do anything about that when you walk out the room but I hope my objective is to convince you that here is something that like lots of other people in time I can it 's a very very useful system . |
| 2 | Do n't look at me I ca n't give you no more bloody loot |
| 3 | Why he imagined Walter would have written to me I ca n't think . |
| 4 | It tells me I ca n't bear to talk about him ! |
| 5 | Not lucky me I ca n't stand it after a while . |
| 6 | I do nt think so Steve , I 've just had mail from the postmaster at Oxford telling me I ca n't send mail , and to subscribe to the list ! ! |
| 7 | ‘ Then mummy tells me I ca n't go out and I 'll wheel the bike back into the garage . ’ |
| 8 | well do n't look at me I ca n't help ya |
| 9 | For the life of me I ca n't remember what courses I took — it was so boring . |
| 10 | Look at me when you 're talking to me I ca n't hear you . |
| 11 | gazumped , because nobody will take him , cos he knows absolutely nothing , about nothing else apart from butchery , it 's the same with me I ca n't work a computer so I 'm cramped in the way of clerical , it 's no good applying for half of them because you 've got to have keyboard skills and erm computer skills |
| 12 | Go on , tell me I ca n't have none ! |
| 13 | To quieten her , to get away from the dark , lurking forest of the past , she said , ‘ I 'll get you a drink , though for the life of me I ca n't imagine why you are cold . |
| 14 | I remember that there was terrible screaming and that blows were delivered , but for the life of me I ca n't recall ever making sense of the basic problem . |
| 15 | But then no foreigner is ever going to tell me I can not walk on my country 's hills . |
| 16 | ‘ I want to know what is behind this first , ’ he snapped , ‘ because for the life of me I can not understand why a man in his position should want to take up with the likes of you . |
| 17 | For me I can not remember who said it , someone far wiser than far wiser than me but somebody said a judge is civilization by the way he treats the |
| 18 | ‘ Nothing I ca n't cope with . |
| 19 | Nothing I ca n't handle . ’ |
| 20 | Yes , but nothing I ca n't handle , given a trowel , ’ she murmured , hoping that her casual shrug would negate the blush she felt spreading over her face . |
| 21 | ‘ Nothing I ca n't handle , ’ he returned abruptly , then irritation broke loose as he demanded , ‘ Tell me , Lucy — what gives women the right to assume so much ? ’ |
| 22 | Nothing I ca n't handle . |
| 23 | She said , neutrally , ‘ It 's nothing I ca n't live with . ’ |
| 24 | There 's nothing I ca n't find out if I want to . |
| 25 | There 's nothing I ca n't deal with myself . ’ |
| 26 | Yes , I did have something on , but nothing I ca n't cancel . |
| 27 | I 'm five-foot six and I 'll likely run to fat later on because Ma says I 'm the image of my grandfather , whom I ca n't remember ever having seen . |
| 28 | A Perfect Stranger bound on next , all fresh-faced and youthfully exuberant and with a fine-voiced giant of a singer whom I ca n't look at without thinking of Spandau 's Tony Hadley . |
| 29 | She never met any men until she met the young man whom I can not think of as my father . |
| 30 | Tell them I ca n't keep trekking to the other end of the building every time … ’ |