Example sentences of "ca [adv] [verb] [pron] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can stick it for myself , but I ca n't bear it for you . |
| 2 | Ca n't do one for everything ! |
| 3 | ‘ She ca n't do everything for herself , ’ Tabitha said . |
| 4 | ‘ You ca n't do nothing for 'im . ’ |
| 5 | Well they ca n't do any they ca n't do anything for me I 'm an I 'm an awkward sod ! |
| 6 | He 's afraid of sleeping too , and we ca n't do anything for him . |
| 7 | Yeah but you say to her that they 're always on about how s Shrimpy ca n't do anything for himself , and it 's between Emma , it 's not between it was al even Scott said to me at the beginning oh it 's not between me , it 's nothing to do with me , it 's between Emma and Scott . |
| 8 | Lord , you remember me , I ca n't do anything for myself , will you remember me ? |
| 9 | ‘ We are declaring people homeless and then they are having to join a queue because we ca n't do anything for them , there is such a backlog . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I think when you first go into the Home , you 're frightened because you think you 'll be treated possibly as a cabbage or just somebody who ca n't do anything for themselves and that you may be completely dependent on people and you want to be independent . |
| 11 | Well of course , it 's not er , by chance the bible and God uses that picture because we 're , we are just like sheep in that sense , we ca n't do anything for ourselves . |
| 12 | And course it 's reached the point of no return now where she she ca n't do anything for herself . |
| 13 | there 's a thousand pound he said , you know , if you can make it right sort of over the next month but he said basically I can not do anything until erm the end of February , he said you come in the end of February he said and then we can start to sort it out , he said I ca n't do anything for you until then . |
| 14 | ‘ People do n't seem to understand that a hypnotherapist ca n't do it for them , and neither can any other magic ingredient . |
| 15 | Some of but you ca n't do it for something like a Medieval 's day or Roman |
| 16 | I ca n't do it for you . |
| 17 | I ca n't print anything for you . |
| 18 | dir : You ca n't blame me for your failure to secure funding . |
| 19 | You ca n't blame them for their nature . ’ |
| 20 | Walter , I know you were n't there Walter so we ca n't blame you for whatever 's happened but have you got a theory about it ? |
| 21 | For him to die of pneumonia was really a terrible waste and I think David harboured a little … you ca n't blame someone for something like a person dying tragically with pneumonia , but I think he felt his mother should have watched over him more carefully , but I suppose that 's like saying the cat got drowned , why was the puddle there ? |
| 22 | ‘ I ca n't make it for you . ’ |
| 23 | Maybe I 've misjudged you , but do n't you see , after all that , I ca n't feel anything for anyone any more ? |
| 24 | We ca n't repay you for what you 've done . |
| 25 | Yeah but they said we ca n't charge you for it he said we sell a new tube or sell you a new tyre he said we can charge you but we ca n't charge you labour . |
| 26 | Presumably you ca n't use it for anything else because it needs to be very smooth and perfect . |
| 27 | You can erm you ca n't use it for anything else but croquet ? |
| 28 | I mean the question that has to be faced is that when you talk about cutting the costs in local government you also have to talk about the services which councils deliver , and you ca n't get something for nothing . |
| 29 | I ca n't get it for you , without him . ’ |
| 30 | We ca n't take them for you . ’ |