Example sentences of "ca [not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's n I still ca n't reconcile why it was kept secret cos surely this is a fundamental point cos it is because they ca n't openly declare that how that they are moving away from the United Front , but if they 're trying to show that they 're moving in line with the peasants ' demands surely they want to show that to the peasants an so there , there 's it 's more that how th the Party cadres have been acting out of step rather than them making it clear to the peasants . |
| 2 | ‘ You ca n't honestly believe that ! ’ he murmured in a low , hard voice . |
| 3 | We 'll let it lie for now , and if we do get any kind of a big response then maybe we can think about scheduling another programme , but I ca n't honestly see that happening . ’ |
| 4 | I mean I ca n't even read that . |
| 5 | Nothing , ca n't even read that one through , go with this one . |
| 6 | ‘ You ca n't even ask that without being obnoxious , ’ she spluttered . |
| 7 | All I ask of you is to make one phone call to firm up a social event , and you ca n't even get that together ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I ca n't even get that right . |
| 9 | Well I was gon na ask you if you knew any girls , I mean for seven pound fifty you ca n't go wrong , you ca n't even get that in town with a hat |
| 10 | So you ca n't even say that . |
| 11 | A , an annual gay party in Sidney , B , a oh I ca n't even say that word , hang on |
| 12 | You say you dream of him : I ca n't even have that . |
| 13 | Because we ca n't just accept that , that manufacturers will look after it for us , because as you 've , already said by the Chief , they 'll move the factory where it |
| 14 | I do n't mind that , but you ca n't just have that . |
| 15 | ‘ You ca n't just have that for breakfast , dear . ’ |
| 16 | I have to laugh , I ca n't not picture that old , what do you call him , Wilfrid Brambell was n't it , mind the time he lost his false teeth in the bath and Harold goes ‘ oh you dirty old man ’ … ? |
| 17 | Yeah , but I ca n't exactly write that down , can I ? |
| 18 | ‘ I ca n't live like that — not now I know for sure . |
| 19 | Well , I ca n't live like that . |
| 20 | Well , I think they must get out , I mean they ca n't live like that . |
| 21 | They ca n't live like that , neither can we live like that . |
| 22 | You ca n't always do that . |
| 23 | He grew up in a depressed community and would never forget what he saw there : ‘ I used to watch the wheel of the pit spin round year after year , after school and Saturdays and Sundays ; and then from 1926 on I watched it not turning at all , and I ca n't ever get that wheel out of my mind . ’ |
| 24 | The incoherence I think is that you ca n't ever say that anyone has lost because you do n't know what 's happening in the second and third and fourth erm batch , so I ca n't see how this system is meant to work , Mill seems to be fairly confident that it will . |
| 25 | ‘ She ca n't possibly wear that ! ’ |
| 26 | Robbie ca n't possibly wear that . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We ca n't possibly do that . ’ |
| 28 | The following month the government say oh we ca n't possibly do that , and four or five months later they hap they happen to do it . |
| 29 | ‘ I ca n't possibly understand that . |
| 30 | ask it questions , it 's obviously on the telephone because you can ask what the balance is and it will tell you , and it ca n't possibly know that and Cleethorpes , when you put the card in the Cleethorpes thing , that , you know , your bank balance at Nottingham is so it 's obviously on the telephone erm and it 's on the telephone to a central computer which holds quite a lot of information , it accesses |