Example sentences of "[conj] i can not [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to have the full eight hours or I ca n't do a thing the next morning , not a single thing . |
| 2 | Although I can not give a date , we intend to proceed just as soon as we can resolve the question of the contract . |
| 3 | Unless there were special factors involved and although I can not recall a situation where we 've paid for a person to go into that 's for members to discuss , not me , but we have certainly paid an enhanced rate where somebody wanted to go to live near their daughter who was in and we felt that was a legitimate reason for paying a higher rate and , and , and we did do so , so there are other types of flexibility . |
| 4 | Exactly the same applies to applying columns to the text , although I can not find a way of having mixed numbers of columns without using frames — much like every DTP package I 've come across , as it happens . |
| 5 | Then her face changed and she told me something so terrible , so strange , so annihilating that I ca n't remember a word she said . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 7 | The thing about Martina is — the thing about Marina is that I ca n't find a voice to summon her with . |
| 8 | The sorts of experiences that you then get people talking about is really well I 've learnt to stand up for myself for the first time , erm I now know what I want to do , I know who I am , erm projects where I 've been involved , where you get women saying things like well two years ago I would never have dreamt of going and talking to the Council about my house , or my children , or that I ca n't get a job because I ca n't get child care , and I would n't have dreamt of doing that and people who now say well now I can do that , I know that I can go and stand up for myself and stand up for what I think is right , just as well as my husband can . |
| 9 | But having said that I ca n't see a job where you can just kind of swan in and you know and think about a million different things in one day or whatever . |
| 10 | One that I look a lot more like the Prime Minister wearing my reading glasses than the Prime Minister actually looks like the Prime Minister and two , the hidden benefits of wearing your reading glasses , group , here , is that I ca n't see a thing over there and for the first time in ten years I 'm gon na enjoy delivering a speech . |
| 11 | But simply that I can not see a case |
| 12 | ‘ No , he 's not coming this way , so I ca n't get a close look , but I 'm sure it 's not him . ’ |
| 13 | Sitting in my sitting in my crib with my dibby dibby dib mass up mash up crib , slap me in the face and I ca n't do a . |
| 14 | Come on man , I 've got Come with a nice young lady , intelligent In a cardboard box , informer lick your boom boom there lick your boom boom there with my dibby , dibby dob , police knock my door , they shout my crib , rough me up and I ca n't do a thing , pick up the when the telephone ring informer . |
| 15 | I 'm a keen dog owner and I ca n't recommend a dog enough for its constant company and affection . |
| 16 | It 's been a wonderful and rewarding 14 years generating an ever-widening circle of friends and customers , and I ca n't recall a refund . |
| 17 | And I ca n't remember a time when he said , ‘ Do n't play that ; play this . ’ |
| 18 | Fucking messing about something and I ca n't remember a thing about it . |
| 19 | Whatever it is , it 's not my property any more and I ca n't put a ‘ Kindly Keep Off The Grass ’ notice on it . |
| 20 | I 'm 33 now and I ca n't imagine a time when I would ever consider using it . |
| 21 | I love you , and I ca n't imagine a life where you are n't the centre of it . ’ |
| 22 | Dog 's gon na have a packet of biscuits and I ca n't have a Pick and Pix . |
| 23 | ‘ One of the safeguards to individuals against libel is the remedy by action ; and I can not conceive a proposition more dangerous than this , that because a company is incorporated they have no appeal to a court of justice if they are libelled . |
| 24 | ‘ One of the safeguards to individuals against libel is the remedy by action ; and I can not conceive a proposition more dangerous than this , that because a company is incorporated they have no appeal to a court of justice if they are libelled . |
| 25 | I do n't know — nobody does , and I can not resist a smile of despair every time I see one of those gardening page headlines that advise us to ‘ prune those roses now ’ and such like . |
| 26 | As I said before , Klemperer 's conducting invariably fuelled controversy , and I can not imagine a more controversial performance than his 1968 recording of Mahler 's Seventh Symphony , which comes in a boxed set with the appropriate coupling of Klemperer 's own Second Symphony and his Seventh String Quartet , the latter performed by the Philharmonia Quartet ( ) . |
| 27 | I 'm going to investigate , see if I ca n't do a conv I do n't think for one minute I will but it 's possible do a conversion er into erm the box type . |
| 28 | I draw Donald a lot if I ca n't get a hand or an angle of an arm right . |
| 29 | I draw Donald a lot if I ca n't get a hand or an angle of an arm right . |
| 30 | If I ca n't get a response from them soon I 'll force-feed 'em my old loin-cloths ! |