Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] ca [not/n't] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where I ca n't see any , it 's gone , where gone , where is it gone you show me ? |
| 2 | That 's what I 'm aiming at , a gliding motion where you ca n't see any legs . ’ ' |
| 3 | You see , I think , although I ca n't prove this , you see what happened , when I was in the , in the glazing shop we were , we were on short time . |
| 4 | However , erm this is the first chance I 've had to speak today so I ca n't take all the blame of the er , of the , of the late start , erm I do n't know whether it would make it any easier to the my colleagues on my right or my left erm to accept the Liberal resolution . |
| 5 | Now usually in the exams they work it so you ca n't do that cos they give you a graph already drawn and they 'll have sort of erm two squares is equal to one unit along the bottom but only one square equals one unit |
| 6 | The withdrawal of privileges is a very popular response by parents to non-compliance — for example : ‘ You 've been cheeky so I wo n't let you go out ’ ; ‘ You disobeyed me by going out on the road so you ca n't have that ice-cream . ’ |
| 7 | I 've cut it so you ca n't have any |
| 8 | I meant to bring my own , but I forgot , and somebody 's used the wrong kind of pen on here , so you ca n't rub that off . |
| 9 | And I 'll turn that over so you ca n't see that . |
| 10 | The Labour group will keep within the government capping limits , obviously we will , and therefore the council tax increase is getting no more than about four percent , so you ca n't claim all this growth is gon na , well it certainly ca n't count all this growth is going to er , with this ma , massive increase in Council Tax . |
| 11 | And so you ca n't use that system . |
| 12 | But although we ca n't comprehend these levels of improbability in our minds , we should n't just run away from them in terror . |
| 13 | How do we judge who 's gon na be greater than we ca n't say that erm , how do we |
| 14 | ‘ So we ca n't do that funny round trip in a straight line . ’ |
| 15 | And you have trouble , so we ca n't do that . |
| 16 | All right so we ca n't go that way it 's too hot . |
| 17 | This lies out with the experience of mankind so we ca n't visualize those things except to guess , and it 's a safe guess , that the reality will be worse than any nightmare . |
| 18 | Squirrels , erm so we ca n't see any of those things but we can imagine them , ca n't we ? |
| 19 | Erm , you 've got that to tend with and erm on top of that erm , you ca n't ware of if you 've got a pass yes , I , you 've then have to er , get , you know , whether though it 'll be going to a and at the moment there suppose to be very , very low so they ca n't do that any more and then you 'll have to , the vet will then do the treatment for the animal , but again you do n't get the vet you 'll only get the training vet 's to do the job and then they reclaim from the R S P C A , so it , no way that they have n't got any funds . |
| 20 | So although he ca n't see this fox . |
| 21 | ‘ HE has tasted all the bread in the sandwiches and approved the menu although he ca n't try all the fillings because some of them are meat and he is vegetarian ’ — Laurence Myers on the opening of Gary Glitter 's sandwich bar . |
| 22 | ‘ Now I am just glad he has been locked up , so he ca n't do this type of thing to anyone again . |
| 23 | Well so he ca n't have that one then ? |
| 24 | And the Isle of Ely college is going out for a meal , so that wo n't be back , so he ca n't have that one , so we have n't got one ! |
| 25 | It 's as if I ca n't feel any more . |
| 26 | Besides which , if I ca n't get any I 'll have to think of something else . |
| 27 | cos you think well if I ca n't see any of the cars behind it then they ca n't see me either . |
| 28 | I mean I got to thinking if I ca n't find any I 'm dead . |
| 29 | Er apparently they phone her up or summat and ask her if she 'll go and stand in for other people and she turned round and says if I ca n't have this school I 'm not doing any . |
| 30 | I cos I ca n't picture another stone you know on any other roadsides and I 've been on plenty that and I travel and no and I can never know of another st stone that was put up to a tramp . |