Example sentences of "can [adv] have [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You clearly ca n't have sex with fellas you ai n't fond of .
2 We 're talking here of protection , of they ca n't have waiver of premium because of ill-health , they 're not going to be able to have living assurance , so it , it 's not an option really for them to have one without the other , because it 's an automatic protection that , that really should be the basis of somebody 's package of their health commitment to have it .
3 We ca n't have drama without people .
4 When everyone is being encouraged to have their say and chipping in , you can only have decision-making by consensus and that takes a lot of time .
5 Ms Botwin has found that a good clue to spotting a fear of intimacy is when someone can only have sex with people they do n't care about , but can confide and be intimate with people of the opposite sex who are seen as just good friends .
6 Talk about ‘ forging a new language ’ to describe new experiences forgets that an old language can sometimes express novelty better than any other ; and the case fails to notice , too , that life depends on contrasts : that you can not have informality without formality , bluntness without courtesy , indecorum without decorum .
7 With the usual kindly swat , and again directing his intellectual energy towards moral concerns , Johnson replies , ‘ No sir , he can not have pleasure in music , at least no power of producing music ; for he who can produce music may let it alone ; he who can play upon a fiddle may break it : such a man is not a machine . ’
8 At TECHNIQUEST you can really have fun with science !
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