Example sentences of "ca [not/n't] [adv] do [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , but er I ca n't just do this with it ! |
| 2 | You ca n't always do that . |
| 3 | On scheduled passages , of course , you ca n't always do this , but Mr. Andrew and his father before him knew the trade so well that they generally managed it . |
| 4 | ‘ We ca n't possibly do that . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ We ca n't possibly do any more work today . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You ca n't possibly do more than an hour , not after a full day 's rehearsal . |
| 8 | You ca n't possibly do this job , ’ but his cases were always brought to a conclusion in the minimum time and , more importantly , with the minimum expense . |
| 9 | I 'd actually go a bit further and say yes we 'd like to do this , can we also look after road maintenance as well , because the road maintenance is sent out to contractors , contractors are so busy , they ca n't actually do half this work , they 've got a list as long as your arm , so pit pitfalls in in the pavements as well as as some of the motorways are n't being done because the contract 's been placed , but they 've placed it with the wrong people . |
| 10 | they ca n't actually do this , if they 're going to do it and we 're certainly not encouraging them to do it , but if they 're going to do it then there 's no reason why they could n't do it with adults . |
| 11 | ‘ We ca n't really do much , then ? ’ |
| 12 | Well I , I ca n't really do much about that tonight but if , if you can leave that with me , what I 'll do is I 'll have a word with er |
| 13 | And er you ca n't really do much because of the stone walls and there 's too much window and too much noise , and you get quite a few insects in them , and they 're just generally not very nice at all . |
| 14 | Well I , I ca n't really do much about it old chap ! |
| 15 | because er I ca n't really do much with my two anyway |
| 16 | So I mean erm I was going to say put money on the Grand National , but you ca n't really do that can you ? |
| 17 | You ca n't really do that though |
| 18 | Erm , the difficulty is that you ca n't really do that in work situations . |
| 19 | Yeah because the other thing is that although erm you might have all these sort of high flying ideas about what you wan na do and you do n't actually feel tied down by a relationship , actually you do live your life thinking well ca n't really do that because I wan na be with him . |
| 20 | It 's a trick you fall back on if you ca n't really do any original thinking — you devise a new research procedure to ‘ confirm ’ an already established theory . |
| 21 | So there is a drawback , in the sense that if you 're flitting around here there and everywhere , as I am , I ca n't readily do that if I know it 's engaged and it 's on call park , and I go off elsewhere , the call comes back to my handset , there 's nobody there , of course eventually , where would it go ? |