Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah , I find that , that I 've done it and I 've written down the answer and then I ca n't think which number does it go to , and by the time I 've got to number one they 're on about six , so I might as well , I 'm lost it completely , so I ca n't do that either and my project work , course work , goes towards certain percent of my marks and I ca n't think for the life of me why |
| 2 | So we 're gon na catch every traffic light on red now there was something I wanted to go into Wisbech for but I ca n't think for the life of me what it was , I must get stuck into this Christmas shopping again , really must so much to do and such little time to do it in oh he 's , he 's put that car down five hundred pounds , that price of that car was , that he got for sale on it seven , seven , nine , five , |
| 3 | Women might be able to scratch together the fees but they ca n't pay for the child cover . ’ |
| 4 | I ca n't speak for the others , but I do some of it each hour . |
| 5 | ‘ Ca n't speak for the food , that 's Kay 's department , but I think I can promise that the tipple will be up to par . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ No — but I 'm afraid I ca n't speak for the future . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I ca n't speak for the children though . ’ |
| 8 | complicated when you start it out , but if you ca n't remember for the life of you then , it 's quite |
| 9 | He admitted last night : ‘ I ca n't wait for the players to find their feet in the Premier League . ’ |
| 10 | Having used a good CAVOK day absorbing its contents , I ca n't wait for the chance to get out and put some of Harvey Plourde 's theories to the test in my Champ — Bob Grimstead . |
| 11 | Ha Ha Ha I ca n't wait for the bullshit to flow as they try to explain away this one . |
| 12 | I ca n't wait for the teacher 's watch to say 4.30 so I can go home . |
| 13 | ‘ Because you ca n't wait for the time when you 'll be a married woman ? ’ |
| 14 | I ca n't wait for the summer . |
| 15 | Ca n't wait for the dogs . |
| 16 | I ca n't imagine I can only say that from my knowledge of Herefordshire as a Herefordian myself , I ca n't imagine for the life of me that there are seven thousand people locally who could remotely afford a thousand pounds per share . |
| 17 | The Labour party had no place for pensioners in the past and no promises that it can properly meet for the future . |
| 18 | I can personally vouch for the usefulness of the information in guiding me to places where turn-of-the-century cyclists had rested on roadside verges — and lost money and valuables . |
| 19 | ‘ It was a first-past-the-post system and I can personally vouch for the result because I saw with my own eyes a clear majority for Prime Suspect . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It was a first-past-the-post system and I can personally vouch for the result because I saw with my own eyes a clear majority for Prime Suspect . ’ |
| 21 | And in that I can only speak for the Harrogate District erm but the situation may well apply to other districts . |
| 22 | very vigorously explained his view that er you you can only inset for the purposes of E Ten . |
| 23 | I can only race for the title when I 'm happy with the whole team around me . |
| 24 | One can only feel for the Jesuits : when their Order was dissolved in 1777 , they had only enjoyed the finished church for two years . |
| 25 | Technocratic versions of radical elite theory see emergent ‘ welfare — industrial , complexes as progressively developing in fields such as health care in the USA ( Kleinberg , 1973 ) , a pattern which new-right governments ’ ‘ privatization ’ efforts can only strengthen for the future ( Ascher , 1986 ) . |
| 26 | As Cati left , she continued , to Sabina , who was sprinkling flour into a basin and whirling it into a dough with her fist , ‘ But you can only wait for the storming to pass … . ’ |
| 27 | Plaatjes , who has given up his South African citizenship but can not compete for the United States until he has completed his five-year residential period next year , is the second-fastest man in the race behind Yakov Tolstikov , but his recent form is better than that of the Siberian runner . |
| 28 | ‘ I can not speak for the gods , but for myself I say this . |
| 29 | While we are happy to answer any queries about our own products , we can not answer for the content of other publisher 's works . |
| 30 | Each Home Secretary has in turn drawn back from taking the most obvious and practical steps with the excuse that they can not legislate for the judiciary — its independence is inviolable : |