Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] for this " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Poor Dora , she ca n't wait for this week to be over , ’ Melissa remarked .
2 I ca n't vouch for this hotel but it looked wonderful for a romantic weekend .
3 With us all jockeying for position in the status stakes , we ca n't afford for this to happen .
4 Even the closer links with local farmers can not compensate for this , since few farmers and farm workers share their leisure activities or meet socially off the farm .
5 Bouch can not vouch for this but suggests the number of visitors might have exceeded the available accommodation which in turn put prices up .
6 I can not vouch for this .
7 Evidently the unique thoroughness of its muster book was complemented by a more rigorous standard of assessment than in most shires , since in 1522 personal wealth there averaged £97 per thousand acres , compared with as little as £61.7 in 1515 and £64 in 1524 , and , mostly having less than average wealth , the sixty-nine additional men roped in in 1522 can not account for this difference .
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