Example sentences of "can n't [verb] [pers pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He ca n't lend you money . |
| 2 | ‘ Ca n't offer you alcohol , ’ she says with a smile . |
| 3 | I ca n't do it mummy ! |
| 4 | See it sounds hokey , I ca n't do it justice . |
| 5 | Even those of us who have it , we ca n't control it Life gets poor-mouthed all the time , yet you seldom hear an unkind word about money . |
| 6 | No you ca n't miss it man . |
| 7 | So I said well Janet 's a vegetarian I said , I ca n't give us lot roast lamb and give her you know . |
| 8 | So you ca n't give it fertiliser . |
| 9 | He ( she ? ) — I never can tell with cats ) is obviously used to people and we think he must have a home somewhere , but he 's always absolutely ravenous , and we ca n't refuse him food . |
| 10 | I said no you see she 's she 's a perfectionist , I mean being a perfectionist being halfhearted erm , you ca n't help it sort of thing , I suppose that , you know |
| 11 | Asked about comments by Mr Sugar that if Mr Venables went and Spurs topped the League early next season , people would soon forget him , she said : ‘ I ca n't see us being top of the League without Terry Venables to be honest , and we would n't forget him anyway . ’ |
| 12 | I ca n't see it dad . |
| 13 | He rings you up and goes he goes hello it 's Jonathan and you go oh right hello Jonathan and he does n't say anything so you talk to him for about half an hour or so and then you go alright Jonathan , better go , you know and then he goes no no I 've got something to tell you and you go oh alright what is it then and he goes I ca n't remember it man , just talk to me for a bit longer and I 'll remember it then and it goes on like that for hours and hours and it 's so boring . |
| 14 | I ca n't hear you sweetheart , speak up . |
| 15 | if the worse thing is , you ca n't shorten it to anything decent , you ca n't call him slob |
| 16 | You ca n't call it knowledge . |
| 17 | In my mind you can make up anything you want in your notebooks , but you ca n't call it fraud if it was n't published . |
| 18 | Marlon : Hey , we ca n't call you Ant , anymore ; we 'll have to call you Nicholas . |
| 19 | His nibs here was doing his solo piece , the stage to himself and the old people were comparatively quiet , until the one with the hearing aid asked in no small voice , ‘ I ca n't get me aid to work ; what 's he playin' ? ’ |
| 20 | When you look at the small print , most of the items that are going to go wrong are excluded , and people get very upset and complain to our department when they ca n't get it book right . |
| 21 | Well I ca n't afford it mother ! |
| 22 | Well you ca n't have it love . |
| 23 | Ca n't Buy Me Love . |
| 24 | The week 's singles listing shows the Fabs occupying the complete Top Five , with ‘ Twist And Shout ’ at Number One , followed by ‘ Ca n't Buy Me Love ’ ( 2 ) , ‘ She Loves You ’ ( 3 ) , ‘ I Want To Hold Your Hand ’ ( 4 ) and ‘ Please , Please Me ’ ( 5 ) . |
| 25 | He opened and closed the back door , taking care to slam it , and returned to the hall , whistling a Beatles ' song , ‘ Ca n't Buy Me Love ’ . |
| 26 | there is a tendency to standardize different time-scales — but in fact different musical types , and sometimes different pieces within a type , may sell at different rates over different time-spans ; thus the Beatles ' ‘ Ca n't Buy Me Love ’ sold a million copies in a week while Ken Dodd 's ‘ Tears ’ took five months to do the same ( Harker 1980 : 98–9 ) . |
| 27 | They strode along bravely , and the tune they played was ‘ Ca n't Buy Me Love ’ . |
| 28 | Martin plays a great set , we encore , duetting on Teenage Kicks , Blank Generation and Ca n't Buy Me Love , and I 'm lapsing into rockspeak : Great vibe . |
| 29 | Plus I ca n't buy my kids t the first wife , I ca n't buy them stuff now . |
| 30 | Or , from Viz 's phoney letters column , a reader from Dagenham writes : ‘ It 's true that money ca n't buy you happiness . |