Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ROM is used for a fixed repertoire of standard programs , which are needed again and again , and which you ca n't change even if you wanted to . |
| 2 | So it was easy , I was bathing in a calm sea where I could swim freely ; you ca n't swim freely when you get tangled up in roots . |
| 3 | ‘ Because I ca n't think straight when I 'm close to you . |
| 4 | ‘ I ca n't think straight if a room 's too warm . |
| 5 | You ca n't hold there because I need to be in the middle of it to push it . |
| 6 | I ca n't say , ca n't do more than that . |
| 7 | Er there was walking , there was cricket and er billiards , erm street games , things you ca n't do now because of traffic . |
| 8 | Pity they ca n't do inside as well ! |
| 9 | Reading around for background to Shakespeare is valuable , and you ca n't do better than begin with the Harley Granville Barker 's Prefaces to Shakespeare , which analyse the plays from both a scholarly and dramatic angle , without being ponderously academic . |
| 10 | Fourteen strategies were submitted For good measure Axelrod added a fifteenth , called Random , which simply played COOPERATE and DEFECT randomly , and served as a kind of baseline ‘ non-strategy ’ : if a strategy ca n't do better than Random , it must be pretty bad . |
| 11 | If you must , then you ca n't do better than to buy a plastic ‘ Snake ’ ; but we doubt if you 'll have the same degree of reverence for it as for our other suggestions in nylon . |
| 12 | So whatever level of runner you are you ca n't do better than get into the Mizuno powerhouse . |
| 13 | You ca n't do better than that , even in London , can you ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't you think that if after seven hundred years of London government , you ca n't do better than this , you ought to leave Ireland to govern itself , and get out with the best grace you may ? ’ |
| 15 | " But I ca n't stay here because he 'll come round . |
| 16 | It 's all the same stuff you know , we ca n't move forward unless it comes forward at the other end |
| 17 | The boats ca n't move now until the race begins . |
| 18 | There 's no need to nail the shelves down , as they ca n't move sideways because of the spacers . |
| 19 | They ca n't stand aside when confronted with evil and injustice . |
| 20 | But we 're OK if they ca n't aim better than this . ’ |
| 21 | I think it was about this time ( I ca n't tell exactly because my diary makes no reference at any point to the practice ) that I discovered purging . |
| 22 | But if you go in , if you walk in it 's free but you , you ca n't walk there because it 's well you 're talking about five mile out into the country . |
| 23 | You ca n't leave here because no other place would tolerate you or be able to support you . |
| 24 | Then I ca n't sleep properly because my body is in turmoil . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh no , they ca n't go faster than me , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Well you got me for the day today , cos I ca n't go now until I fetch the car . |
| 27 | ‘ I quite like that one , chief But I ca n't see exactly where it 's leading to . ’ |
| 28 | There 's also support for multiple columns , although you ca n't see more than one column at a time unless you 're in Page Preview mode . |
| 29 | You ca n't see further than your noses ; you never move out of this damn county . |
| 30 | I ca n't see further than twenty feet anyway , and I do n't need to live vicariously . |