Example sentences of "he ca not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ He ca n't just disappear . ’ |
2 | Well no it ca n't Angela ask him somebody ask him , he ca n't just arrive and start doing things . |
3 | Because Neil plays very hard he produces a lot of power through the pickups , and he has recently realised that he ca n't just put any pickup with any EQ system , otherwise the signal from the bass simply overloads things … |
4 | And the fact he ca n't just accept things , he has to question things . |
5 | Of course he ca n't just come out with it . |
6 | ‘ He ca n't even sort himself out . ’ |
7 | ‘ He ca n't even hunt , the poor bastard … ’ |
8 | He says he ca n't even play with his grandchildren because he 's in so much pain . |
9 | NEW council housing supremo Arnold Phillips admitted yesterday that the market is so depressed he ca n't even find a home for himself . |
10 | He writes in that same letter ‘ I ca n't hate anything ’ , and he admits he ca n't even own to ‘ despair ’ . |
11 | We think back to the antihero of Notes from Underground lamenting that he ca n't even call himself a lazy man , and we think sideways to Svidrigailov : ‘ Believe me , if only I were something ; a landowner , say , or a father , a cavalry officer , a photographer , a journalist say — but I 'm nothing , I 've no speciality . ’ |
12 | I 'd just been talking to the guard , twelve hour shifts , sixty hours a week and he ca n't even have any time off for tea breaks or meal breaks . |
13 | Must be ill must n't he , if he ca n't even have visitors ? |
14 | Look at him , he ca n't even pronounce it . |
15 | Well , that 's Danny for you ; he ca n't even faint without saying goodbye in C.B. |
16 | One terrific running joke through the film involves Munny , who is so rusty in the saddle he ca n't even mount up any more . |
17 | He ca n't even cross the road by himself . |
18 | And he ca n't even ride a bike … |
19 | You know I mean if he ca n't even remember |
20 | he ca n't honestly spare time to go down there |
21 | And we 've we 've proven that er some people have said , Oh well he wo n't come on he ca n't either afford it or he does n't want to . |
22 | He ca n't only have been Donald the Great Doctor . |
23 | He did n't want a job that 's what he had said he wanted to have time out he did n't want a job he could get a job when he wanted to , he ca n't now turn round and blame it on |
24 | Obviously he ca n't quite speak in complete sentences yet , and his pronunciation is a bit poor sometimes , but he 's got a good grasp of the facts . |
25 | A sore spot is what I 've hit , I muse , as he begins a defence he ca n't quite decide should be serious or silly . |
26 | It 's made of red plastic , and there 's something familiar about it which he ca n't quite identify ; something about the feel of its grained texture , and of the shiny red popper button on the flap … |
27 | Or , finally , knowing you always loved him and enjoying the sense of power this gave him , he ca n't quite believe that he does n't count any more . |
28 | And he ca n't erm he ca n't quite live with that . |
29 | He 's a good man who 's done much for our people , but he ca n't quite let go of the life he and our forefathers have always known . |
30 | Fat women and bald-headed men standing in the doorways of tiny shops make jokes to him which he ca n't quite understand , and shout ribaldries to each other about him clapping him on the shoulder to indicate they 're not serious , and cutting slices of cheese and sausage for him to try . |