Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I ca n't eat all that .
2 Then she added : ‘ I ca n't eat any more .
3 Darius is struggling to finish his , and he 's smearing it round the bowl so it looks like he 's ate it , and I say I ca n't eat any more because I got to stay sober tonight .
4 It 's just that I — I ca n't eat any more , ’ she admitted while becoming aware of the misery growing within her and feeling perilously near tears .
5 Ca n't eat any more !
6 I ca n't eat any more oh dear
7 I ca n't eat any more of that .
8 ca n't ca n't eat any more .
9 I ca n't eat any more of that breakfast mum .
10 Papers like the NME and the Guardian ca n't ignore these masculine genres , but find it hard to understand or reinterpret them : instead they 've devised several strategies for skirting round them .
11 I mean you 've got to stop and think I ca n't carry any more .
12 Even if the foremost authority in the world ca n't explain some remarkable biological phenomenon , this does n't mean that it is inexplicable .
13 If you 're arthritic and ca n't manage those child-proof tops , your pharmacist will give you an ordinary bottle to use .
14 I ca n't manage any more I 'm afraid mummy .
15 ‘ You ca n't start any more shooting . ’
16 The Norton Antivirus can detect all the common viruses in the field , but while version 2.1 might claim to be able to detect all 1,400 viruses known to the NCSA , it still ca n't detect many old , well-known , ‘ laboratory ’ viruses such as Pogue , Starship , Slovakia or Slovakia-2 .
17 Sorry , my my my other point is about about Ryedale , and and and its its and its its unde its relationship to Southern Ryedale , and erm Mr Smith said that erm as far as Ryedale Council are concerned they ca n't identify any more land within Southern Ryedale , well of course they would say that because was there position at the Southern Ryedale plan , but the fact of the matter is that there was a great dispute at the York greenbelt Southern Ryedale plan enquiry , revol resolving around the issue of what were the bits of the greenbelt which made up the historic character and thereby what were you left with that potentially could be developed , albeit it might be reserved as white land in the first place , but could potentially be developed , and a great deal of this land on the disputed side lay in Southern Ryedale , that in that in fact there was a view around the table not only sh not only shared by by the developers side , but erm that large parts of Osbaldwick and Huntingdon did n't fall within the definition of greenbelt as as set out by by the County Council in their N Y Two Two document , now that matter clearly has got to be something left to the Inspector and the Greenbelt Inquiry , but I think it 's fair to point out that there is actually a difference of view , so it 's not an absolute position , that you ca n't identify more land within within Southern Ryedale , and indeed , erm , not that I want to raise the Local Government Commission 's head again , but of course the Local Government Commission is proposing that York be a unitary authority expanded , and once Yor , if York does become a unitary authority expanded then some of these areas will fall within their area , and they may have a different view than er the Ryedale current Ryedale district council does , and therefore I think it is a little unsafe to take just at pure se pure face value , that there is no more land within Southern Ryedale that could be developed .
18 I ca n't think that one person in a car on their own would want to go to MacDonalds too often .
19 Really is good Saw it first time when it was out last year I ca n't think that twenty more days and I 'm a fucking away .
20 I ca n't hold that Just hold the trolley with the bags in there .
21 I find it difficult to believe that a bank like the NatWest ca n't offer any more appropriate type of account than this ‘ small business account ’
22 Paul ( 4.8 ) : You ca n't reach this high , Ceri .
23 But as well as all the companies — and there is a host of Cambex Corps and IPL Systems Incs just under the tall poppies of the IBM marketplace , there are thousands and thousands of individuals who must now feel devalued in a deeply demoralising way , people that have made it their life 's work to understand everything there is to know and understand about IBM and its mainframe products , who now find that all that hard-won knowledge is a rapidly wasting asset — not just industry commentators and pundits who will soon find that the market ca n't bear any more ‘ Into the Big Blue Yonder : the Decline and Fall of an American Icon ’ books , but an unsung army of data processing managers who now feel they are too old to start again and learn something new and fundamentally different virtually from scratch , and will instead sink back into the anonymity of early retirement .
24 ‘ I ca n't bear those two who run it — English gentlewomen with a vengeance , I always think — the kind that have made England what she is . ’
25 If you ca n't do all this , the probability is that you do n't have any talented people around ( in which case there 's no way you 'll be successful and profitable tomorrow ) .
26 I ca n't do all those things . ’
27 You ca n't do much more violence to sense and language in one sentence than that .
28 and they are helping with the children in the house , I mean , they ca n't do much more !
29 But it 's not as if , you ca n't do much more though you know ?
30 They s they seriously ca n't do much more than if they catch you they suspend you there 's not a lot more that they can do .
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