Example sentences of "[adv] ca [adv] [pron] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only ca n't you always get what you want , half the time you get what you do n't need either . |
| 2 | Well ca n't you just talk cos it 's not long , just a couple of minutes just talk before you revise for a little while ? |
| 3 | Well ca n't you just use that then Nigel ? |
| 4 | ‘ Then ca n't you just give in gracefully and save us all a lot of trouble ? ’ |
| 5 | Why ca n't they simply get on with things ? |
| 6 | Why ca n't they just tell you ? |
| 7 | Why ca n't they just ransom me ? |
| 8 | So why , why , why ca n't you just erm why ca n't they just take a bit off everybody in that case and , and inflict the same degree ? |
| 9 | Yet there 's nothing sordid to it , so why ca n't they just accept that Rosemary made a terrible mistake and married a rotter . |
| 10 | Er , why ca n't they just look at , er do a means test for child benefit ? |
| 11 | why ca n't they now decrease that , and er start doing advertising ? |
| 12 | Yeah , erm modern when in choosing a mate and er connection with that because with the assumption that males generally do n't give any parental investment what really benefit them to you know biologically can , can support the offspring themselves short period of time why ca n't they then go you know to have their own I mean |
| 13 | Anyway why , why ca n't we easily use these capital receipts ? |
| 14 | Why ca n't we just have them in a loose-leaf binder with dividers in , and let the engineer decide how to hold documentation together ? |
| 15 | Why ca n't you just stay home forever , daddy ? |
| 16 | ‘ What I mean is , why ca n't you just admit that it was wonderfully exciting to fuck somebody else ? ’ |
| 17 | Why ca n't you just leave me alone ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Why ca n't you just leave me alone ? ’ |
| 19 | Why ca n't you just leave me alone ? ’ |
| 20 | Why ca n't you just leave it on ? |
| 21 | It 's a glorious , peaceful summer day — why ca n't you just lie back like me and soak up some of those gorgeous golden rays ? ’ |
| 22 | But why ca n't you just put one over the top there or something ? |
| 23 | Why ca n't you just use a task request form that says . |
| 24 | Why ca n't you just say : " There 's a bloke I 've met and I 'm bringing him home for tea on Tuesday . " |
| 25 | ‘ Why ca n't you just let me live my life how I want to ? ’ |
| 26 | Why ca n't you simply say County Council appointed Governors , which does n't have that same inference of the word political . |
| 27 | Why ca n't you even speak to me ? " |
| 28 | Why ca n't he just interview me , ask my experience as a waitress ? |
| 29 | Why do I have to carry them around — why ca n't I just remember them ? |
| 30 | Ludens thought , why ca n't I do that , why ca n't I just ask a woman to hold my hand , why ca n't I ask Franca to ! |