Example sentences of "and we can [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we have n't got the money , Anna thought , putting the telephone down , and we ca n't borrow it , we must make it . |
| 2 | Many secondary teachers are worried about it because they say ‘ The children are coming into the secondary school having perhaps used computers and we ca n't offer them computing for two or three years , erm you know and they 're going to be very frustrated , erm and so perhaps they should n't go into primary ’ . |
| 3 | And we ca n't give you any over five horses . |
| 4 | He ( she ? ) — I never can tell with cats ) is obviously used to people and we think he must have a home somewhere , but he 's always absolutely ravenous , and we ca n't refuse him food . |
| 5 | He 'll be waiting at the station and we ca n't make it now . |
| 6 | ‘ They 're all over us in the air , and we ca n't stop them on the ground . |
| 7 | I help him ; we lift the rusting grating up at one end but the far side is still secured by an iron pin and we ca n't shift it any further . |
| 8 | ‘ But that is part of the game and we ca n't do anything about it . ’ |
| 9 | He 's afraid of sleeping too , and we ca n't do anything for him . |
| 10 | I ca n't do it , and when we try and do it , we 're no good at it , and we ca n't do it . |
| 11 | To start giving them new projects is unrealistic and we ca n't authorise it . |
| 12 | I do n't want him shaken to death , and we ca n't take him off these things . |
| 13 | Children who do come in to care are placed with other families where possible and again is fortunate in having an experienced network of foster parents and link carers and we ca n't thank them enough . |
| 14 | As you know , the hangman is always allowed to keep the rope , and we ca n't find it anywhere . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ They have gone and we ca n't get them back . |
| 16 | We wish we had n't done this as they are valuable now and we ca n't get them out ! " |
| 17 | I 'm not gon na go over t what my colleague has said but what I do wan na know is when are the Labour Party gon na get hold of some issue and make some sort of mileage out of it , because we 've got a number of sponsored MPs and we ca n't get 'em off the doorstep at election time , but when it comes about doing summat for us and consider the fact that it affects many many people and we talk about the links that the Labour Party and the trade union has , I think the Labour Party 's already severed 'em , as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 18 | down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday |
| 19 | The VAT man is in and we ca n't get our accounts . |
| 20 | And we ca n't turn it round anyway we tried all ways |
| 21 | Erm , there are a number of issues , there are three separate issues there 's the C A B issue , which I remember for years trying to get additional staff funded in the North Wiltshire C A B from from this council and we could n't afford it then and we ca n't afford it now . |
| 22 | If we ca n't get anything else and we ca n't afford anything else we 've just got to go on paying it but |
| 23 | er obviously what you 're saying with it 's already in use and we ca n't have it ? |
| 24 | We ca n't say now , now , now we can give you these new services and we ca n't say we will give you the services as , as we 're just promising . |
| 25 | In short our national standards are high and we can largely choose what they should be . |
| 26 | Yet some are dangerous to our cause , and we can not brook their contumelious conspiracies against us . |
| 27 | Furthermore , the problems , as well as the delights , of diversity of views exist , and we can not pretend they do not . |
| 28 | Peregrine said : " We do not know the effect of waves and we can not estimate what we should build " . |
| 29 | The Soviet Union , so the story goes , is simply a different type of state , and we can not expect it to live peacefully or comfortably with its main adversary . |
| 30 | The spiritual care of the bereaved demands a book all on its own and we can not do it justice here since we have been more concerned with the human experiences that people undergo . |