Example sentences of "ca [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She s a bit dodgy on her feet and I 'm a bit nervous about her , but she 's got to the stage now when she ca n't sit in all day without exercise . |
| 2 | Ca n't rely on that , ca n't rely on it . |
| 3 | Now , for a long time , because my children have grown up , and I do n't see them being , being young men , when the young men get married , you , mothers do n't see them , so I 'm on my own , and it 's , erm , I ca n't rely on that for company at all . |
| 4 | We 've learned that the government ca n't rely on enough support from its own back benchers to push through privatization on its own terms . |
| 5 | Yeah but how stupid can they be because I mean the less of you are you , I mean you ca n't serve as many as it 's , it 's stupid in n it ? |
| 6 | Or as Dr Dani Bevan , general manager of Powys health authority puts it : ‘ If we do n't get the communications right , we ca n't talk to each other . ’ |
| 7 | And I do n't intend to meddle in your family life — if you ca n't talk to each other , it 's none of my business . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Our branches ca n't talk to each other . |
| 9 | ‘ You know we ca n't talk to any outsiders , ’ replied the hijra , ‘ unless Chaman Guruji gives us permission . ’ |
| 10 | you know I ca n't talk with these things . |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't talk about that , ’ she said . |
| 12 | ‘ I ca n't talk about this , ’ says Mr Jarvis , 50 , who this week opened with his wife Rosalind Ayres in Alan Ayckbourn 's Just Between Ourselves at the Greenwich Theatre , south London . |
| 13 | ‘ Ca n't talk in that traffic . |
| 14 | And I ca n't talk like that any more either . ’ |
| 15 | You ca n't rat on that and give all those American lunatics — and I 'm quoting you — this kind of support . |
| 16 | The buses used to start from their to Hampton , and there used to be a place where they would leave newspapers and they put , put a er box there by that and people used to take out newspaper and put the money into the box and er , you ca n't dream of that sort of thing now . |
| 17 | Sometimes I feel I 'd like to pack a bag and just go … sometimes you think you ca n't manage for another minute . ’ |
| 18 | Sometimes you think you ca n't manage for another minute . ’ |
| 19 | You ca n't start like that , I 'm prepared to consider the matters which have been suggested by your Lordships th this afternoon to see if there is a way in which we can er meet that point . |
| 20 | I ca n't relate to that . |
| 21 | I , I ca n't comment on that Terry that is not something |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I ca n't comment on that . ’ |
| 23 | I ca n't comment on that |
| 24 | The police , if they want to say ‘ No comment ’ , they say , ‘ I 'm sure you 'll understand that I ca n't comment on that particular aspect , the matter is sub judice , you would n't wish me to prejudice the . |
| 25 | But if you prevaricate and say , ‘ I ca n't comment on this because I 'm an officer of the Council , ’ then they think , ‘ Oh , God , you know , what sort of person am I talking to ? ’ and you lose all your empathy and all the sympathy of the listeners , which is what you 're after . |
| 26 | The police say they ca n't comment at this stage . |
| 27 | She says they 're all very upset and will help the police but she ca n't comment beyond that . |
| 28 | Ca n't e you ca n't loose in this |
| 29 | ‘ As for rhythm guitar influences , I ca n't think of many better ones than the Stax/Volt records with Steve Cropper and Booker T & The MGs . |
| 30 | Brussels sprouts , baked potatoes , grated cheese , the variation of vegetables in the summer , a tin of vegetarian steak pudding on Sundays and a piece of fruit afterwards is a monotonous but healthy diet , and I ca n't think of many cheaper ways to feed two children and feel you 're doing your best for them at the same time . |