Example sentences of "ca not [verb] [pron] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know if this was my business , I would have budgeted for this amount of advertising to be ab I mean you ca n't sit it by getting at home er you ca n't get it by sitting at home . |
| 2 | In general , you ca n't change one without changing the other . |
| 3 | Sir , we ought to have them nearby us , where we can see what they 're up to … where they ca n't betray us without destroying themselves as well . |
| 4 | Tonight , here , now , we ca n't hurt anyone by making love . ’ |
| 5 | If Hilary Robarts thinks she has been libelled and seeks redress I ca n't prevent her from going to law . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You ca n't scare me into telling you what you want to hear ! ’ |
| 7 | What er Newstat does though is something quite interesting he says well we all know , well I hope you all know , that there are limits on presidential power and we all know that the president ca n't direct congress , we know the president ca n't appoint anybody without consulting congress , we know the president ca n't control the supreme court , we know all these limitations but nevertheless , leaving that to one side , pushing that to one side , there are major powers here . |
| 8 | Besides , I want to protect the remains of my privacy ; I do n't want to appear cold-hearted or stubborn ; but I know that when I try to make my life give me its answers to how I have come to my current concerns , I ca n't do it without feeling that I am on the edge of a dangerous fiction of self-description . |
| 9 | ‘ So you ca n't accuse me of hiding anything . ’ |
| 10 | erm , I , well I ca n't commit myself to going down to that to , I mean if it 's , if I can I 'll give you a ring because with Cherry being off as well it 's , I mean it 's gon na be unfair if I start , cos I 've been so much |
| 11 | You ca n't blame me for trying . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm delighted to hear it , ’ Mike agreed , ‘ although after this latest little fracas you ca n't blame me for wondering , now can you ? ’ |
| 13 | But you have to admit you do look very young and innocent , so you ca n't blame me for putting on the Big Daddy bit . ’ |
| 14 | It would be nice if the NHS could do this , but you ca n't blame them for trying to raise money in other ways . |
| 15 | And he ca n't blame us for singing ‘ You 're Only Here For The Money etc ’ when we travel to Ewood Park . |
| 16 | ‘ Ye ca n't blame us for trying . ’ |
| 17 | " I have , of course , contributed to the difficulty by taking my suspicions to the police — I ca n't blame you for wanting to get to the bottom of things . |
| 18 | Ca n't blame you for getting away from everyone . |
| 19 | ‘ Now listen , you ca n't stop me from rescuing my own daughter ! ’ |
| 20 | you ca n't stop them from using everything in time |
| 21 | I sprinted across the open square outside the station , jacket over head , dodging tramcars with split-second , if largely inadvertent , precision , skirted a large puddle , feinted between two parked cars , head-faked a lamppost and two startled elderly shoppers ( once I start running , I ca n't stop myself from pretending I 'm returning a kick-off for the Chicago Bears ; it 's a compulsion — a sort of Tourette 's syndrome of the feet ) . |
| 22 | I ca n't stop myself from laughing and clapping my hands . |
| 23 | The problem is , the problem is though , half the time you put into a situation , where , I , I , I was due er , a week 's holiday , and two weeks previous to that , I was actually changed contract so I was there on this new contract , and in a fortnight I was going to take a holiday , and sort of , well I ca n't stop you from taking your holiday , but you know , it 's , that sort of problem is n't it . |
| 24 | You ca n't win it by changing the parameters er if you do change the parameters of course then you 'll be fighting a different war and your objectives then become different . |
| 25 | His typically unspecific and floated ‘ us ’ is the human family which Raskolnikov must rejoin , and he ca n't rejoin it without accepting suffering . |
| 26 | I ca n't fault it in performing the basic functions that you can reasonably expect from a spreadsheet , but I do feel that Lotus has tried to sell 1-2-3 for Windows on the back of the original DOS version , which misses the point of an Windows spreadsheet entirely . |
| 27 | You know if this was my business , I would have budgeted for this amount of advertising to be ab I mean you ca n't sit it by getting at home er you ca n't get it by sitting at home . |
| 28 | You ca n't get it through your skin — so you ca n't get it from touching someone with HIV . |
| 29 | Noticing a badly dressed woman while driving in Knightsbridge , she ca n't restrain herself from rolling down the window and crying out ‘ Why ? ’ in sheer exasperation . |
| 30 | ‘ I still ca n't read it without starting to cry , it was so moving . |