Example sentences of "ca [not/n't] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said , we 'll have to do without our Rice Krispies , if we ca n't manage to get any . |
| 2 | I think we 'll do without our Rice Krispies , if we ca n't manage to get some . |
| 3 | However , people do often need more than just a diet , as there may be psychological reasons why they ca n't manage to stay slim . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Obviously , you ca n't continue to do all the work that a client would like you to do . |
| 5 | ‘ But we 've tried and Maureen ca n't bear to finish any more than I can . |
| 6 | ‘ I have broken up with my boyfriend and I ca n't bear to let any man touch me . |
| 7 | Oh I ca n't bear to throw those sticky bows away , when they 're not , they 're not |
| 8 | Calcraft adds : ‘ We ca n't hope to win many of those matches , even though they wo n't bring their top teams . |
| 9 | " I 'm afraid I ca n't claim to know much about knitting . " |
| 10 | There still is n't any heat up there ; we 're freezing to death and we ca n't see to play this absurd game . |
| 11 | Who are these people that the politicians ca n't trust to consider such questions and decide upon ? |
| 12 | I said I said oh I said I ca n't wait to lose this guts and those two were sitting there while I dressed and I said oh my guts and oh how I hate them , I said but if I lost them I mean |
| 13 | We ca n't wait to leave this theatre , this atmosphere , this trap . |
| 14 | I ca n't wait to allow all children to benefit from that eight million pound school up the road . |
| 15 | Oh good , I ca n't wait to have that |
| 16 | Unlike the creatures pursued by film-makers , which usually ca n't wait to get away from the camera crew , this lot ca n't wait to get close . |
| 17 | ‘ Right now this Capricorn ca n't wait to get one particular little Virgo into his bed — and do some research of his own ! ’ |
| 18 | Ca n't wait to get that Sierra ! |
| 19 | Ca n't wait to get this bedroom sorted out Do think I could have my desk ? |
| 20 | ‘ I ca n't wait to meet this Alice you both speak of so often , ’ Cora-Beth said thoughtfully . |
| 21 | Ooh , we ca n't wait to hear that ! |
| 22 | Mind you , with a hundred years of refinement and improvement behind it , you still ca n't afford to ignore good old ‘ Sutton Globe ’ . |
| 23 | I 'm sixty years of age and while I 'm prepared to plant the woods for my grandson , I 'd like to see some growth myself I ca n't afford to wait forty years . " |
| 24 | Appearing before the Congressional subcommittee that will eventually decide the NEA 's fate , she declared , ‘ If we find a proposal that does not have the widest audience … we just ca n't afford to fund that ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ We ca n't afford to do that kind of thing , ’ said Fagin . |
| 26 | We obviously ca n't afford to do that , on that scale , but what we can do , is fund into the regional scr er , screen commission at Birmingham , to their register , where they will hold details on what 's available , er , what houses , what large houses are available , things that can be set in , what lo what er , countryside there is , what facilities there are , what firms there are locally that can provide services to for a cost . |
| 27 | ‘ We ca n't afford to do that , ’ said Gustave , scandalized . |
| 28 | The Trust ca n't afford to do that , and tonight meets to discuss the manor 's sale to Paddy McNally , a millionaire friend of the Duchess of York , who already owns property in nearby Sevenhampton . |
| 29 | I said I 've got an invoice outstanding for October , and I said I ca n't afford to do that ! |
| 30 | Ca n't afford to do that |