Example sentences of "ca [not/n't] [vb infin] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm sure she ca n't do justice to your designs . |
| 2 | But words ca n't do justice to Jan Ormerod 's wonderful animal pictures , which make each spread in this large-format picture a joy to look at . |
| 3 | I think we ca n't do justice to the point you 've raised in the time at our disposal , but it is a very important issue . |
| 4 | ‘ We felt it was a worthwhile cause as we ca n't stand cruelty to animals of any sort . |
| 5 | WHAT sort of country is it where we are told we ca n't pay tribute to our heroes ? |
| 6 | ‘ Listen , Annie , you ca n't tell lies to old liars . ’ |
| 7 | We Brits may have invented cricket , tennis , football , rugby , golf , darts and bowls but we ca n't lay claim to baseball , ice hockey , American football , ten-pin bowling , rhythmic gymnastics , synchro swimming or sumo wrestling . |
| 8 | We ca n't send Karen to the boring Isle of Man with anything less than a nineteen-carat hangover , can we ? ’ |
| 9 | Hairshafts are totally dead , so cutting them ca n't send messages to the hair roots . |
| 10 | I ca n't make love to you the way I want to — not here . |
| 11 | His green eyes pools of limpid clarity and wholly deceptive depth , but his swift grin wicked , Michele replied provocatively , ‘ I ca n't make love to a housekeeper or beat her into submission the way I could a wife , and , as I prefer my domestic arrangements to run without a hitch , I have to tread circumspectly . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You ca n't make love to me like that and then expect me to carry on as if nothing 's happened . |
| 13 | Erm in so that it 's our fault really that we ca n't give work to our our er people . |
| 14 | ‘ You ca n't give prominence to everything , ’ he says . |
| 15 | When you actually abolish these things , you ca n't expect behaviour to be totally unchanged . |
| 16 | ‘ I do listen to contemporary music but it tends to be electronic stuff that I ca n't put names to . |
| 17 | And install a cattle trough which is , as far as we ho as far as we believe , vandal-proof , in that it 'll be a self-filling c er cistern filled cattle trough which the , the erm the , the ball float is actually contained in a erm a metal box so you ca n't get access to it . |
| 18 | A ninety day account you ca n't get access to . |
| 19 | They ca n't take children to the school door . |
| 20 | K : ‘ The evenings are a very special time but I ca n't take Chloe to the park because there is a hostel for down-and-outs by it and they sit on the park benches drinking and shouting abuse . |
| 21 | Ca n't abide traitors to class or country . ’ |
| 22 | YOU CA N'T PROVIDE HOMECARE TO THE HOMELESS |