Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [pron] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Charity , we ca n't pretend it did n't happen . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ She can do everything , but she ca n't decide what to do . ’ |
| 3 | I ca n't think what to do next , except the same things . |
| 4 | I ca n't think what to do next . |
| 5 | You get the child who just sits and ca n't think what to do . |
| 6 | He 's holding his hand out to me , yelling at me , but I 'm stuck there , terrified , screaming , and I do n't know what to do , ca n't think what to do , even while he 's yelling at me to help him , come out to him , get a branch , but I 'm petrified at the thought of setting foot on that white , treacherous surface and I ca n't imagine finding a branch , ca n't think what to do as I look one way towards the tall trees above the hidden gorge and the other along the shore of the loch towards the boat-house but there are no branches , there 's only snow everywhere , and then Andy stops struggling and slips under the whiteness . |
| 7 | He 's holding his hand out to me , yelling at me , but I 'm stuck there , terrified , screaming , and I do n't know what to do , ca n't think what to do , even while he 's yelling at me to help him , come out to him , get a branch , but I 'm petrified at the thought of setting foot on that white , treacherous surface and I ca n't imagine finding a branch , ca n't think what to do as I look one way towards the tall trees above the hidden gorge and the other along the shore of the loch towards the boat-house but there are no branches , there 's only snow everywhere , and then Andy stops struggling and slips under the whiteness . |
| 8 | Nowadays I ca n't bear anything to do with football , kicking an air-filled pig 's bladder up and down a muddy pitch ai n't my idea of fun . |
| 9 | World population , erm probably what I 'm gon na have to do is , although they , they said you ca n't do it do n't get any ideas about doing it with because it 's not possible . |
| 10 | You ca n't bring yourself to do it . |
| 11 | ‘ But I ca n't bring myself to do it now . |
| 12 | You ca n't pay anyone to do it for you . |
| 13 | review with them where they 're at , record how they 're doing , you know tra , I mean I ca n't tell them to do that , but actually ask them to spend five or ten minutes each session talking to different pupils and what they 've been doing and you know even if it 's a personal timetable some people wo n't get into it but it 's you know , trying to get them to be what are tutors are , you know , I 'd like them to do . |
| 14 | The first one is the erm , er , or so , when directs authority over somebody , will , we do n't , we ca n't tell them to do it , we have to influence or persuade them to do something . |
| 15 | ‘ I ca n't suggest they do that . ’ |
| 16 | You ca n't complain I do n't tell you things . ’ |
| 17 | Equipment out of reach so children ca n't choose what to do |
| 18 | you can only encourage them you ca n't make them do it . |
| 19 | You ca n't make me do anything against my will ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ He ca n't make you do it , you know . ’ |
| 21 | I bet you feel like a now , give them in when they ca n't truss them du n no . |
| 22 | Since they ca n't stop me doing that , I 've made my views on Welsh rugby very clear . |
| 23 | You 're not looking at the stream , you 're looking at the bloody quality and you ca n't stop yourself doing it . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 've given you the facts , gentlemen ; you ca n't expect me to do your embroidery for you . ’ |
| 25 | It 's as simple as that I mean we ca n't expect her to do it . |
| 26 | Yes if she 's coming out you mean you do n't , you do n't have to do it all tonight she wan might want to be talking about erm her grading a lot so you ca n't expect her to do any work until she 's got that out of her system she might want to go on for an hour or so . |
| 27 | They ca n't expect you to do everything overnight can they ? |
| 28 | Lewis laughed , ‘ Well , no , ca n't claim I do know , but I 'll take your word for it . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I ca n't allow you to do this . |
| 30 | Well I ca n't help I do n't know when |