Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] [prep] that " in BNC.
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1 | Ca n't rely on that , ca n't rely on it . |
2 | Now , for a long time , because my children have grown up , and I do n't see them being , being young men , when the young men get married , you , mothers do n't see them , so I 'm on my own , and it 's , erm , I ca n't rely on that for company at all . |
3 | ‘ I ca n't talk about that , ’ she said . |
4 | ‘ Ca n't talk in that traffic . |
5 | And I ca n't talk like that any more either . ’ |
6 | You ca n't rat on that and give all those American lunatics — and I 'm quoting you — this kind of support . |
7 | The buses used to start from their to Hampton , and there used to be a place where they would leave newspapers and they put , put a er box there by that and people used to take out newspaper and put the money into the box and er , you ca n't dream of that sort of thing now . |
8 | You ca n't start like that , I 'm prepared to consider the matters which have been suggested by your Lordships th this afternoon to see if there is a way in which we can er meet that point . |
9 | I ca n't relate to that . |
10 | I , I ca n't comment on that Terry that is not something |
11 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I ca n't comment on that . ’ |
12 | I ca n't comment on that |
13 | The police , if they want to say ‘ No comment ’ , they say , ‘ I 'm sure you 'll understand that I ca n't comment on that particular aspect , the matter is sub judice , you would n't wish me to prejudice the . |
14 | She says they 're all very upset and will help the police but she ca n't comment beyond that . |
15 | I ca n't think of that name . |
16 | Oh I do n't know that , I ca n't think of that one |
17 | I ca n't think of that ! |
18 | ‘ I ca n't think about that . ’ |
19 | But you ca n't think about that because that is n't the point ; although you know it does matter , you ca n't allow it to matter , you ca n't let something like that stop you . |
20 | ‘ You ca n't think like that — and , anyway , since we 're not at war with Egypt , no one 's a traitor . |
21 | You ca n't think like that Has he died yet , sounds like you 're waiting for him to die ! |
22 | She snapped , ‘ I ca n't do with that . ’ |
23 | You ca n't aspire to that degree of quality , but Peter Kirsten , who was my schoolboy hero , … well I think I can get to his level as a fieldsman and , perhaps , batsman . ’ |
24 | Not do anything , but still you ca n't depend on that can you ? |
25 | I ca n't cope with that . |
26 | and the air ca n't cope with that , ca n't burn it all up , so what happens then ? |
27 | But I ca n't cope with that sort of thinking . ’ |
28 | But , of course , many clergy ca n't cope with that . |
29 | Ca n't cope with that ! |
30 | We ca n't pay for that out of the general population in the City of Oxford , we 've got to take it out of the people who live in council houses and are paying rent and this seems to me a most iniquitous way of erm financing our people on how incomes . |