Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] n't afford [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's worse , although one might start with some hunches in a mammalian brain , the anatomy of the chick brain is very different from that of mammals , and even now not well mapped , so I could n't afford inspired guesses derived from mammalian expectations — chickens hardly have anything worth calling a hippocampus , for example . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm afraid I ca n't afford professional rates . ’ |
| 3 | Because they say , Cor I ca n't afford that lot , you know |
| 4 | I ca n't afford another game of that . |
| 5 | I ca n't afford Yellow Pageses or phone books , but Thompsons might be a different matter . |
| 6 | She has never possessed boots or winter shoes : " I ca n't afford closed-in shoes , so I always wear sandals and in the winter I just put on two pairs of socks . " |
| 7 | Well when you all went , as you all left , when the last lot of redundancies were made , I said I 'm not paying no more union , Judith come over about the union meeting , I said I 'm not going to the meeting Judith and I said I want to come out of the union I 'm not paying any more , I said I ca n't afford ten pound a month for crap , well me and Jan had a big barney over it cos I never got on with her anyway and we had a big fucking row about it , she said the union this , the union that , I said where were the unions with my mates , they were n't in damn site , they were never there , we never saw one union representative from the day Audrey got done and we never ever saw erm till the last one got done , I said so do n't you tell me about the union I said they did fuck all , they were n't even here , so I said I do n't want to pay the union , and I said do n't tell me what to do Jane , I said what I do with me money is up to me I said get me out the union and get me out now , and then they all started , they all wanted to come out of it then , oh Maureen I think I might but what would Debbie say , I said Maureen do you ask her for a shit ? |
| 8 | Surely you ca n't afford such complications ? ’ |
| 9 | we were , we were furniture made , you know , all we thought about was the home and in fact once we could n't afford any wall paper we were decorating so George painted the wall white and we got saucepan lids , and even the dustbin lid and with er , er , a black pen , felt type pen I suppose although felt pens were n't out then |
| 10 | We ca n't afford modern technology now , we 've got one of these old wind-up gramophones . |
| 11 | For instance , We ca n't afford that car highlights the price of the car , Our car could n't keep up with his highlights its performance , and The car crushed Arthur 's foot its weight . |
| 12 | But we 're a small country now : we ca n't afford big mistakes . ’ |
| 13 | He insists we ca n't afford another baby , and that 's that . |
| 14 | We ca n't afford any sloppiness . |
| 15 | We ca n't afford any delays . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We ca n't afford any Chernobyls in space , ’ says Shafto . |
| 17 | Either they ca n't afford private health insurance or the American insurance companies regard them as a bad risk to be acceptable . |
| 18 | In the US , for instance , the cost of supporting a child to the age of 18 — excluding college fees — is over $100,000 and 50% of American women using contraception are doing so because they feel they ca n't afford another child . |
| 19 | He could n't afford another lawsuit . |
| 20 | He could n't afford another scandal while waiting for trial . |
| 21 | He could n't afford any rumours getting out that he had deliberately destroyed the Hochhauser Company . |
| 22 | After a long while of keeping the pendant hidden and unlooked at in his sock drawer , Thomas had to bring himself to hunt for someone to buy it back , for he could n't afford both presents . |
| 23 | He ca n't afford hot water , except for twice a week when he puts on his immersion heater for a bath . |