Example sentences of "ca n't [vb infin] [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | So I settled for the fact that you ca n't devote the time which I feel you would need to give to the job . |
2 | When you ca n't do the time , do n't do the crime turn to criminology you must be prepared to accept the punishment when they get caught |
3 | In the old films erm the saying was from one conduct to another , ‘ Do n't do the crime if you ca n't do the time . ’ |
4 | Kovacs finishes off by saying , — So what if you ca n't tell the time . |
5 | Just in case you ca n't tell the time . |
6 | Mr Foggerty was agreeably surprised , but when Nutty reminded him of the standard required , he relapsed into grim gloom and stood on the side of the bath in his white T-shirt and jeans looking at his watch and saying , ‘ I ca n't spare the time to do this three nights a week for the next year , which is what is required . |
7 | I wo n't do defended cases because I ca n't spare the time , not because I do n't feel competent . |
8 | Yet even if there is a little textural variety in the CD as a whole , in performances as polished as these you ca n't begrudge the time spent listening to such uniformly lovely music — it just does n't take to end-to-end listening . |
9 | Yeah that 's right no reflection on you it 's just that I 'm thinking oh I ca I just ca n't see the time when I would ever drive through a gap like that that confidently that 's all . |
10 | And I ca n't remember a time when he said , ‘ Do n't play that ; play this . ’ |
11 | Looking back , I ca n't remember a time when I did n't love you . |
12 | ‘ It 's what I 've wanted to do for a long time , so long that I ca n't remember a time when the name Tony Radcliffe did n't send me into a violent rage ! ’ |
13 | you know trouble is it 's , it 's either May weekend or it 's I ca n't get the time off |
14 | I mean she might suddenly find that she ca n't get the time off the hotel , or she changes her mind , I do n't know . |
15 | I 'm 33 now and I ca n't imagine a time when I would ever consider using it . |
16 | Our minds ca n't imagine a time span as short as a picosecond , but we can do calculations about picoseconds , and we can build computers that can complete calculations within picoseconds . |