Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( PS The Editor 's brain ca n't manage the first teaser . |
| 2 | ‘ Do you know I ca n't remember the first bit , I 've been here so long . |
| 3 | I do n't know how much of it I remembered , cos I 've seen it so often now , mm , ca n't remember the first time I saw it Did n't know . |
| 4 | And you ca n't buy the first thing you 're offered ! |
| 5 | It is unlikely , though , that we can handle all these if we can not make the first distinction systematically ( and the alert reader can no doubt find mistakes of this sort within this book ) . |