Example sentences of "[pron] ca [not/n't] [verb] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | yes , I did n't do a river , I ca n't do my own work . |
| 2 | ‘ How in heaven 's name do I know I do n't like Beethoven , when I ca n't remember my own name ? ’ |
| 3 | In this case , I ca n't say my own self-confidence was too evident . |
| 4 | I ca n't believe my own ears ! , |
| 5 | I ca n't believe my own eyes ! |
| 6 | After a while , you ca n't smell your own scent — but everyone else certainly can ! |
| 7 | ‘ The reason why you ca n't smell your own breath is because you ca n't get your nose in your mouth , ’ says dentist Roland Comet . |
| 8 | So then what happened was , did the Dock Commission say you ca n't have your own men any more ? |
| 9 | The only drawback is the cost — a hefty £1950 in London , £1450 outside — although they 'll help you arrange a home birth on the NHS if you ca n't afford their own service . |
| 10 | You ca n't mind your own business . |
| 11 | If you ca n't get your own way or what you want by openly and honestly asking for it , do n't use sly or surreptitious methods because they could backfire and land you in the soup . |
| 12 | If you ca n't get your own way or what you want by openly and honestly asking for it , do n't use sly or surreptitious methods because they could backfire and land you in the soup . |
| 13 | you ca n't see your own eyebrows can |
| 14 | Others proposed the slogan , ‘ You ca n't sell your own mother , ’ with the message focusing on the religious and historical bonds between the Jewish people and the Biblical towns of Hebron , Nablus and Bethlehem . |
| 15 | ‘ How do you expect to unite humanity when you ca n't keep your own family united ? ’ |
| 16 | Now frankly , an admiral who does n't pick his own bombing targets and a broker who ca n't choose his own investments do n't seem as oppressed to me as a clerk who is n't allowed to press her own return key . |
| 17 | I 'M SURE the rest of Britain is wondering like me how a man who ca n't manage his own personal finances is running the country 's economy . |
| 18 | Guess we ca n't face our own failures . |
| 19 | The people in wheelchairs , it 's fair enough that they ca n't get their own dinner , but they should at least go to the back of the queue like we have to , but they push straight to the front . |
| 20 | Biomorphs readily replicate in the environment provided by a suitably written computer program , but they ca n't write their own program or build a computer to run it . |
| 21 | The recognition by IBM Corp that Microsoft Corp products are not going to go away and that it ca n't build its own personal computer world solely on OS/2 — which has led the company to decide to put NT up on the PowerPC and to do a DB2/NT version of its personal computer database is to culminate in a meeting between new IBM chief executive Louis Gerstner and Microsoft chief Bill Gates later this month to discuss areas of mutual interest , the Wall Street Journal says . |
| 22 | Sugar needs 75% of shares voted , plus a simple majority among shareholders voting , but he ca n't vote his own sizeable holding . |
| 23 | He has temper tantrums if he ca n't get his own way , and he even tries to hit me . |