Example sentences of "ca [not/n't] [verb] about " in BNC.
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1 | We ca n't lounge about chatting . ’ |
2 | We ca n't talk about anything else . |
3 | I ca n't talk about the tea-party tonight . |
4 | ‘ Ca n't talk about what he was working on , ’ Howard said stiffly . |
5 | ‘ Ye ca n't talk about Da like that ! ’ he rasped . |
6 | I ca n't talk about it now , because nobody I know is in the least bit interested . |
7 | I ca n't talk about the future . |
8 | ‘ I ca n't talk about that , ’ she said . |
9 | ‘ There are things you ca n't talk about ; things you keep inside you — memories , mostly . ’ |
10 | ‘ I ca n't talk about this , ’ says Mr Jarvis , 50 , who this week opened with his wife Rosalind Ayres in Alan Ayckbourn 's Just Between Ourselves at the Greenwich Theatre , south London . |
11 | You ca n't talk about painting because talking or writing and painting are two different … it 's another language , is n't it ? |
12 | ‘ We ca n't talk about a cinema audience in general any more . |
13 | I do n't know what it is , so no wonder I ca n't talk about it . |
14 | ‘ I think it 's good news , but I ca n't talk about it on the telephone . |
15 | " I ca n't talk about it . " |
16 | You ca n't talk about it with him because the word ‘ art ’ starts off a whole series of shocked , guilty ideas in him . |
17 | ‘ Charles , I ca n't talk about it now . |
18 | No , I ca n't talk about football with Celon . ’ |
19 | I feel we are acting furtively , hurrying it out of sight , we ca n't talk about it , except for the momentary panic when we think we have included my father 's jacket . |
20 | J.S. Oh , they think it 's a bit low brow and they ca n't talk about it and , as you say , they 're not in their bodies . |
21 | Erm , otherwise I just think it 's very tricky when you , when you , when you try and take away the layers that you 're going to just end up with the one that you ca n't talk about anyway . |
22 | Well tell me what you think you can talk about or ca n't talk about in schools . |
23 | You ca n't talk about present day , right . |
24 | It was awful , I ca n't talk about it |
25 | Speaking at home , Mr Samson said : ‘ I ca n't talk about it too much because it is still the subject of an inquiry , but I was still conscious after it went off . |
26 | We ca n't talk about school , it 's boring |
27 | You ca n't niggle about detail after that . |
28 | ‘ We ca n't think about the future now , ’ he says . |
29 | ‘ I ca n't think about that . ’ |
30 | I ca n't think about Frederico . |