Example sentences of "[adv] ca not [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just ca n't stand it at times , but they ca n't give me anything for it . |
| 2 | Malcolm , who is statemented , and has ‘ severe learning difficulties ’ ( as the educational psychologist puts it ) or who is ‘ dyslexic ’ ( as his parents , encouraged by the local Dyslexia Institute , put it ) or whom ‘ you just ca n't do anything with ’ ( as several of his teachers have put it ) , mouths the words as Beth reads and smiles broadly as she finishes . |
| 3 | I love you so much that I just ca n't express it in words . |
| 4 | Then , in the same gentle tone she had heard Travis use when he had been speaking to the woman he loved , he murmured , ‘ Leith , my darling , I just ca n't keep it to myself any longer — do you mind ? ’ |
| 5 | It 's up to me whether I eat or not , too , but I just ca n't see myself on that diet of nothing . ’ |
| 6 | Well if you bring the one back you still ca n't do one minus two . |
| 7 | All you have ever read about the delights of fast-jet aerobatics still ca n't prepare you for the utter , mind-blowing super-smooth , almost silent exhilaration of the real thing ! |
| 8 | ‘ I still ca n't read it without starting to cry , it was so moving . |
| 9 | Even today I still ca n't find one in a music store which fits my finger . |
| 10 | They probably ca n't do anything about it unless they leave the Tower first . |
| 11 | And whilst you probably ca n't see it in the air . |
| 12 | A because the work has n't been done What I 'm trying to do is er to say give a balanced approach which seems to me to reflect the County Council 's view that er you really ca n't do it on the basis of a a a quick subjective assessment , it really needs to be the result of a l of a detailed body of work . |
| 13 | I then ca n't freeze it for sandwiches . |
| 14 | I certainly ca n't take them to Oxford with me . |