Example sentences of "[pron] ca [not/n't] do [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then you have a we sorry , I 'm sorry I ca n't do it that week , I 've got a weeks holiday . |
| 2 | ‘ I mean , ’ explained Anabelle , ‘ I ca n't do it all alone . |
| 3 | If I ca n't do it all , which of those things that I really need or want to do am I going to have to leave undone ? |
| 4 | I ca n't do it all in one |
| 5 | I ca n't do it all in this wool , with that many different colours to do , if they did it in , if they made ounce balls if they made it , did ounce balls it wo n't be so bad , but that 's a hundred gramme that , so |
| 6 | Er I , I was going in the evening you know , doing the tailoring class but of course my illnesses have stopped me doing all of that and made me realize I ca n't do it all . |
| 7 | You 've got ta probe and establish the reasons why I 'm gon na talk to him and most people it 's , it 's , it 's a lie , they 're not gon na talk to him , they want to use the accountant as a reason to say oh erm I 'm , I ca n't do it this time the accountant said no or I 've not spoken to him yet I 'll have to put it off for a , for a bit longer |
| 8 | ‘ I ca n't do it any more . ’ |
| 9 | er , I ca n't do it any more |
| 10 | yes , I did n't do a river , I ca n't do my own work . |
| 11 | But you ca n't do everything all at once , so start with just one thing — maybe your attitude to teachers , or your willingness to speak up for Jesus : whatever is a problem for you at the moment — and get stuck into sorting that one thing out . |
| 12 | In a real world where you face managerial decisions and you have to make a decision , you can do one thing or a number of other things , but you ca n't do them all at once , it 's just not possible . |
| 13 | you know , you ca n't do them all in that sense , but if you had somebody somebody like Colin might be able |
| 14 | If if I say well let's try and add up a sixth and a twelfth and most people want to add the six and the twelve together and things like that but you ca n't do it that way you 'll have to change them both into something that 's the same . |
| 15 | Er , I sorry , , just clearing my throat , er , I did , I did delegate if somebody put it on the end of somebody 's assignment , then I to it , but I tend to find I underestimate what people can do for me all the time , and do n't identify just how much those people can give me back , and I did , or I do have a tendency at times to give people like before , to hold on too much , try and do too much myself , and er , you ca n't do it that way in case . |
| 16 | Sometimes you ca n't do it that way though can you ? |
| 17 | you ca n't do it that way , you just slide the pack out |
| 18 | Verbal messages become more hostile , more aggressive , and the threat of rejection may be offered ( ‘ If you ca n't do it this way , do n't do it at all' — fail and you must go elsewhere ) . |
| 19 | But i i it 's yo you ca n't do it this term because maths is never ready it always has to be done erm next term . |
| 20 | ‘ The ambulance has arrived , and you ca n't do anything more . ’ |
| 21 | er There 's a young girl in Didcot itself er her parents are known socially to the blokes at the fire brigade ; she , she suffers from cerebral palsy , she 's eight years old , and until recently she 's been going out on bike rides with her father on a child seat , but as you know kids grow up , they grow out of things , therefore she ca n't do it any more . |
| 22 | Come off it I 'm afraid , we ca n't do them both ways . |
| 23 | Obviously they ca n't do everything all at once . |
| 24 | They ca n't do anything much . |
| 25 | Well , it ca n't do him any harm where he 's gone . |