Example sentences of "can n't [vb infin] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | You know if this was my business , I would have budgeted for this amount of advertising to be ab I mean you ca n't sit it by getting at home er you ca n't get it by sitting at home . |
2 | you ca n't draw it in yellow cos it do n't er take on this so I 'm going |
3 | Yeah , Oh you ca n't sack her for that ! |
4 | In general , you ca n't change one without changing the other . |
5 | I ca n't change everything at this stage . |
6 | What you ca n't do anything you ca n't change anything about your voice or your laugh . |
7 | You ca n't change you ca n't change anything on there because the guy 's signed it . |
8 | But it 's that side away from the river , you know , I I ca n't link it with the river . |
9 | Sir , we ought to have them nearby us , where we can see what they 're up to … where they ca n't betray us without destroying themselves as well . |
10 | ‘ I 'm very sorry I ca n't oblige you with cigarettes for her , sir . |
11 | He says he wishes Harry had a radio but he ca n't carry one without Oxygen . |
12 | I ca n't explain it to you . ’ |
13 | You 're probably quite prepared to stomach the fact that I 've slept with girls before you , you 'd think it odd if I had n't , but if you ca n't see that a baby makes a difference to how much other affairs matter , I ca n't explain it to you . " |
14 | erm you ca n't explain it with maths any more . |
15 | You ca n't explain it with the funny little rules that we have for how your potential and different things vary in your circuit . |
16 | And somehow , but I ca n't explain it in that moment that what community 's about it 's about the not yet as well your . |
17 | You ca n't treat me like that . |
18 | You ca n't treat me like this ! |
19 | And with a decent meal including large bottles of local beer for around £5 , there 's no reason why you ca n't treat yourself to the colourful ‘ Egyptian night out ’ with cabaret , belly dancing and a multi-course meal held regularly at the plush Ramses Hilton for about £25 . |
20 | they 're saying that their fixing figures by not putting people on the waiting list so the waiting lists are shorter , because they 're putting , not , they 're saying that to people we ca n't treat you for about two years so I 'm not going to put you on the list at the moment , so they 're , cooking the books , that 's what they reckon |
21 | The thing is , the trouble with that is when you try and understand or argue about something like that you ca n't treat it as a work of art cos it is n't it 's a functioning building |
22 | Yeah you ca n't set it by the book |
23 | We have more than 200 branches open on Saturdays from 9.30 am – 12.30 pm , so you can call in and discuss your needs if you ca n't manage it during the working week . |
24 | If I ca n't manage it in a quiet room , or a temporary study , I impose it on everyone at least for a short time . |
25 | As Sabra , a woman in her forties , told me ‘ If I go out I usually do have my Dupatta round me , but at work I ca n't wear it in case it gets caught up in the machines , so I just wear a scarf on my head when I leave the house — something is needed to save one 's Izzat ’ . |
26 | I ca n't wear it in November , she thought . |
27 | Tonight , here , now , we ca n't hurt anyone by making love . ’ |
28 | Shopkeepers have been told they ca n't protect themselves against ramraiders and smash and grab attacks because they 're in a conservation area . |
29 | The table is too heavy to move , so you ca n't ram him into the wall with it , and there are no other weapons around . |
30 | Instead of seeing the person depicted on the duckpond surface of the polaroids , he sees an amalgam : this one 's slightly dark upper lip , this one 's nervy legs , this one 's role in Le Médecin malgré lui at the Comédie Française ( where he has recently sat through an excruciating evening of seventeenth-century high camp ) , this one 's intensely white and brown eyes , this one 's professed love of Shakespeare , this one 's part in an erotic thriller ( he can remember her buttocks from that movie , but he ca n't fix them to the right actress without his notes ) . |