Example sentences of "[pers pn] ca [adv] [verb] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Foggerty was agreeably surprised , but when Nutty reminded him of the standard required , he relapsed into grim gloom and stood on the side of the bath in his white T-shirt and jeans looking at his watch and saying , ‘ I ca n't spare the time to do this three nights a week for the next year , which is what is required . |
| 2 | I wo n't do defended cases because I ca n't spare the time , not because I do n't feel competent . |
| 3 | you know trouble is it 's , it 's either May weekend or it 's I ca n't get the time off |
| 4 | Yet even if there is a little textural variety in the CD as a whole , in performances as polished as these you ca n't begrudge the time spent listening to such uniformly lovely music — it just does n't take to end-to-end listening . |
| 5 | Kovacs finishes off by saying , — So what if you ca n't tell the time . |
| 6 | Just in case you ca n't tell the time . |
| 7 | So I settled for the fact that you ca n't devote the time which I feel you would need to give to the job . |
| 8 | When you ca n't do the time , do n't do the crime turn to criminology you must be prepared to accept the punishment when they get caught |
| 9 | In the old films erm the saying was from one conduct to another , ‘ Do n't do the crime if you ca n't do the time . ’ |
| 10 | I mean she might suddenly find that she ca n't get the time off the hotel , or she changes her mind , I do n't know . |