Example sentences of "[adv] but [pers pn] ca " in BNC.

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1 Quite rightly so but we ca n't get complacent health and safety is one of the most important issues of all affecting our members .
2 It still appears in the directory as Read Only but I ca n't read it , copy or delete it .
3 Any other and I put diabetes in there asthma is an illness which erm you may come across , it 's the clogging up , it 's something irri irritates the tubes , the windpipe and the bronchial tube and the person can not draw air in , well they can draw it in but they ca n't get it out and they 're , and they 're trying very hard and the noise , has anybody heard anybody with an asthma attack ?
4 It 's , you can put it in but you ca n't put it back with your fingers you do n't realize it when you go up and get it and you ai n't got enough
5 I had treaded in but you ca n't have treaded , still , oh a tyre is treaded is n't it ?
6 ‘ I would like to shut myself away but I ca n't .
7 ‘ We 've had a flurry of enquiries lately but we ca n't find any file on why the village was evacuated . ’
8 I wrote to Tim & Polly yesterday but I ca n't lay my hands on The Barbarton exploration Base address .
9 He added : ‘ I do n't want to see anyone sent off but you ca n't have tackles like that flying around . ’
10 Now clearly it makes no sense you might be up to producing the Toyota Corollas in a three hundred acre plant , erm , near Derby right but we ca n't employ the same techniques in production er when we 're making agricultural why not well essentially we 're using land , we 're using land intensively alright and there comes a point when , erm you reach dis-economies of scale and start er accruing dis-economies of scale in agricultural production and that scale of plant is very , very small but after about well it depends what type of production er what type of product you 're making but , you know , there are n't many farms over five thousand hectares , now five thousand hectares is a huge farm , it 's massive alright but it still only produces a fraction of , say U K output cos there 's several million hectares of erm but the reason why you do n't see these very large farms is that you just do n't reap the economies of scale alright , because essentially we need land erm and you 're farm gets so big that it would take you half the day to drive your combine harvester over to the , the other side of th your farm just to erm , to harvest the , the wheat right .
11 " You 've been lovely and I 'm leading you on but I ca n't deliver at the moment .
12 Oh well there 's one with lo two lovely flowers on but I ca n't see any on the , any of the other plants .
13 I got a toothbrush somewhere but I ca n't find it now everything 's changed .
14 Your father was chief cook to the Maharajah of Patiala or somewhere but I ca n't boil an egg . ’
15 I it 's up the hill somewhere but I ca n't find it .
16 gets past but he ca n't get past and Shrewsbury are breaking with it but they 're still inside their own half at the moment with Kevin who gave them the fighting chance with the original equalizer inside the first half .
17 Just trying to see if there was any , Ernie , I 'm trying to hunt Ernie up but I ca n't find him yet .
18 ‘ Seen you before but I ca n't think who you are ’ sort of look .
19 Erm we are renumbering some points in that one , erm we were trying to avoid it before but I ca n't seem any way of avoiding it here because these are major new things .
20 It was in one of New York City 's ‘ crowded sections ’ that Thrasher and Cressey found that ‘ the photoplay of Little Caesar seemed to have swept certain groups of boys — like a cyclone , leaving a host of consequences ’ and came across boys who swaggered , threw mock-punches , dressed , and ‘ smiled like Cagney ’ and who went around repeating phrases like ‘ You can dish it out but you ca n't take it . ’
21 Modern Rythmic Gymnastics is more about poise than power … its grace not gusto … is it a sport or is it art … theyre arguingthat one out but you ca n't deny its style and skill …
22 We tried to get a rubber that rubs , rubs ink out but you ca n't get one very well can you ?
23 he 's , he 's one of these people ta give it out but he ca n't take it .
24 I 've got loads really but I ca n't find them any where
25 It seems stupid now but you ca n't imagine what it was like stumbling about in the dark and then seeing him daubing away … whoever heard of painted flowers … ’
26 It would n't take long to do it now but I ca n't be bothered
27 I was gon na give it to Ian to take to college tonight , but he 's not in so I ca n't , so I 've got ta send it now but I ca n't address .
28 I 'd like to write back but I ca n't keep up with him .
29 It 's quite funny really because er I used to go off I had an agreement with the headmaster at that particular time and he 'd h I 'd been a full time teacher with him , and he needed somebody desperately , that was the only reason obviously he wanted me back , and er I said Well look I can come back but I ca n't get back in order to go to the assembly at first .
30 And when I last looked at it , one question on behaviour modification had managed to creep on there as well but I ca n't remember what the question is , so you 'd better pay attention for the whole of the rest of this lecture in case I in case I remember it .
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