Example sentences of "ca [adv] [vb infin] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't I ca n't eat a full meal though ! |
| 2 | We ca n't eat a full meal anyway and they charge |
| 3 | I can I ca n't eat a full yoghurt , so a little set yoghurt |
| 4 | You might say " I am no artist " , or " I ca n't draw a straight line " , or " I have n't drawn or painted since I left school . " . |
| 5 | You ca n't draw a hard line between international and national politics not these days . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's puzzled me for years that four times out of five the Wheel is recovered , but I ca n't recollect a single instance of the Scapegoat being brought in . ’ |
| 7 | I ca n't shake a lingering vision of her straining eagerly against Casey , and I half blame her for it as if it were true . |
| 8 | You ca n't link a whole range to a whole range , you can only have to one cell . |
| 9 | ‘ You ca n't waste a good supply of spliff ! ’ |
| 10 | Just as " big-step reductionism " can not work as an explanation of mechanism , and must be replaced by a series of small step-by-step peelings down through the hierarchy , so we ca n't explain a complex thing as originating in a single step . |
| 11 | In any event , if you ca n't manage a simpler case you are surely not going to succeed with the more difficult one . |
| 12 | Perhaps might not be it , ca n't , you ca n't wave a magic wand and say everything 's but they might not . |
| 13 | ‘ We ca n't fix a definite time of death until after the post mortem , but we 're working on the assumption that it was shortly after the time agreed for the rendezvous — midnight . |
| 14 | You ca n't fool a black audience . |
| 15 | Says one Norton executive : ‘ Even Honda ca n't design a new bike in a matter of months . |
| 16 | Eldorado creator who ca n't watch a single episode |
| 17 | As the day wears on they begin to mock each other , particularly Neil Strachan , the melancholy Presbyterian geologist , who keeps ruling out half their best ideas as bloody tectonic impossibilities , and who ca n't do a convincing German accent for the life of him . |
| 18 | Mr Fishbane is obsessed with sex and while I imagine he ca n't do a great deal about it any more , poor old boy , until he 's finished his breakfast he 's almost out of control if he spies an attractive girl . ’ |
| 19 | There 's a sense in which editors are very good at deciding what headlines are , and there 's , there 's a sense which you ca n't do a great deal about it . |
| 20 | You ca n't do a green all that |
| 21 | It may be that like the other NCT groups people do not feel the need to attend for more than a few months ( ca n't stay a New Mum for ever ! ! ! ) and at the moment no one needs the MiE group I do not know and I would like to find out . |
| 22 | Blanche : I ca n't stand a naked light bulb , any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action . |
| 23 | I do n't see why I ca n't lead a normal life , ’ says brave Joanna . |
| 24 | You see , he 's got such skill , his footwork , and he 's always in the right position , and he really was , I ca n't pay a higher tribute . |
| 25 | I ca n't pay a third of the wage in lodgings . ’ |
| 26 | It is a terrifying condemnation of the universal franchise that the nation 's government is determined by a few thousand self-satisfied oafs who ca n't tell a general election from the Eurovision Song Contest . |
| 27 | As Zelma is wont to say , ‘ You ca n't beat a good laugh . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You ca n't beat a good old draughty old church , ’ I said , smiling . |
| 29 | Now to me you ca n't beat a better that 's one of the best insurance people I 've ever been with . |
| 30 | Divorcee Margot says , ‘ You ca n't beat a younger man . |