Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Murray overseas , ca n't quote today , first thing Monday . |
| 2 | We ca n't sit here all day ! ’ |
| 3 | You ca n't sit here laughing like this , you know . |
| 4 | ‘ We ca n't sit here forever , ’ Donna said finally . |
| 5 | But I ca n't sit here all night . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm aware of that , but I ca n't sit here and await their pleasure . |
| 7 | We bought these two sloping chairs right and Tony , where our seats were there was a big light in the ceiling , a big round light there , and it shone straight in the side of me eye I said we ca n't sit here . |
| 8 | I mean it 's , it 's general I suppose I mean if it would be better to switch it on and off which you can do and er , you know , I mean we ca n't sit here continually talking |
| 9 | She had booked a sleeper from Paris in terms of time — " I ca n't sit up all night " — not distance " I am going a long way south . " |
| 10 | But seriously , folks , we ca n't sit around here all day entertaining the troops , there 's a war to be won . |
| 11 | You ca n't sit around for ever . |
| 12 | I know you 're unhappy , but you ca n't sit indoors and brood about it all day . ’ |
| 13 | Because usually you go off to a restaurant and if there 's twenty of you you ca n't sit together can you ? |
| 14 | That woman canes the girls , and the man birches the boys , and sometimes they ca n't sit down all day . |
| 15 | The floor is only ten inches square so you ca n't sit down or squat in it . |
| 16 | Mr you see various people are giving evidence , and Mr wants to ask the right person , certain questions , namely the person who er devised those words and er you are er somebody in a very important position er and er he 's trying to get it from you , and as he 's pointed out to you a company ca n't sit down and produce in some corporate way a phrase someone or two human beings or more have got to do it and he wants to know if you can help us er who , who that was , that 's , that 's all you see , he does n't want to ask you about it , no doubt er , er in the same way as he 'd want to ask a person that actually devised a word , d' ya see ? |
| 17 | Oh you ca n't sit down , do you want another one ? |
| 18 | She said she ca n't sit down , ca n't stand up . |
| 19 | Yes , yes well we ca n't talk you see , we do n't know , we do n't know what 's happening , but she 's been suffering a lot with her back just now and she put that off you know that because she 's not attending the meetings , she ca n't sit , and if she comes to the meetings she ca n't sit down , she stands up , props herself against the wall and stand up right at the back so , we do n't know you see |
| 20 | I 'm sorry , I 'm not going to tell you what to do because you are under test , I ca n't sit down and say do this , do that , you 've got to make a decision yourself to go for it . |
| 21 | So I ca n't sit there and observe someone bringing in my stuff . |
| 22 | Say something , there 's a love — come on , you ca n't sit there all night … |
| 23 | No Clayton you ca n't sit there . |
| 24 | Besides , there 's a lot of rain , even I ca n't sit out in that . |
| 25 | ‘ You really have to use your brain , you have to anticipate things and you ca n't sit back and think it will all be all right . ’ |
| 26 | I ca n't sit back and let Liz get on with it . ’ |
| 27 | Come on then , you ca n't sit back there , ooh oh you wan na stand up then , come on then , come on ooh , go on then , we 'll go and see daddy , come on then come on then , come on then , come on move it move it , come on move your foot , over there I think come on then , come on , oh rrrm , rrrm , rrrm , rrrm , rrrm , who 's that ? |
| 28 | And he ca n't sit quietly and talk to people now . |
| 29 | ca n't sit in |
| 30 | I am underweight and I look underweight , but still I ca n't eat normally — that is , eat enough to gain weight . |