Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] [adv prt] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The floor is only ten inches square so you ca n't sit down or squat in it . |
| 2 | I 'm sorry , I 'm not going to tell you what to do because you are under test , I ca n't sit down and say do this , do that , you 've got to make a decision yourself to go for it . |
| 3 | Mr you see various people are giving evidence , and Mr wants to ask the right person , certain questions , namely the person who er devised those words and er you are er somebody in a very important position er and er he 's trying to get it from you , and as he 's pointed out to you a company ca n't sit down and produce in some corporate way a phrase someone or two human beings or more have got to do it and he wants to know if you can help us er who , who that was , that 's , that 's all you see , he does n't want to ask you about it , no doubt er , er in the same way as he 'd want to ask a person that actually devised a word , d' ya see ? |
| 4 | ‘ You really have to use your brain , you have to anticipate things and you ca n't sit back and think it will all be all right . ’ |
| 5 | I ca n't sit back and let Liz get on with it . ’ |
| 6 | We ca n't stand up and lecture them on self-reliance and personal responsibility and then wade in and take over as soon as they show signs of doing what we want . |
| 7 | It is the only way the women of West Belfast are able to actually able to take on further education and if you ca n't stand up and fight for that then West Belfast is not working . |
| 8 | And do n't get so drunk that you ca n't stand up and have to sit down in the middle or , worse still , can not speak at all . |
| 9 | ‘ I know what you say is true , Melody , but I ca n't stand by and allow this wedding to go ahead . |
| 10 | Should 've sorted out I mean I ca n't go up , I ca n't go up and give him any more help cos I 'm working tonight and tomorrow night . |
| 11 | On a personal level I ca n't go off and say ‘ Bye darling ’ , I 'll see you in a few years . |
| 12 | If you 're low level in a valley you ca n't go back and do it again |
| 13 | Yeah you w you would be saying , if there 's a husband and wife there and you said you died yesterday and if the , if the husband butts in you say you 're dead , you say nothing , all the plans you 're gon na do you never did , right , so you 're dead , you keep quiet you ca n't go back and have a reincarnation . |
| 14 | He used to say you ca n't go out and kick your boots up ! |
| 15 | He was saying they ca n't do their job they ca n't go out and get these proper bloody criminals |
| 16 | you ca n't get new stuff , you ca n't go out and get something new like that , to that quality |
| 17 | We are not going to use violence , we are not going to tell girls they ca n't go out and play in the streets , that they have to stay at home . |
| 18 | Most of the family were present when Anne asked her mother if she could have her dress altered , and after she had gone to see the Misses Dolan Tony said , ‘ I think it 's a shame Anne ca n't go out and enjoy herself . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's such a pity , ’ she gabbled on , ‘ one ca n't go out and buy a new husband or wife the next day , like you do with puppies or kittens . |
| 20 | So he said I ca n't go along and bother a busy man when it 's feeling much better . |
| 21 | 1a ) You ca n't patch up or inlay veneer without the repair being obvious . |
| 22 | ‘ I ca n't look back and say , ‘ hey , maybe I should have stayed at school ’ . |
| 23 | Claire Carlton ca n't pick up and hug her two year old son . |
| 24 | Yes , yes , but erm , you know , I have had to say to the chaps , one of them came in and he said he 'd been spoiled down at the cedar and I said oh well , I , I 've been cooking a breakfast for Neil of course by the operation of sods law , Neil suddenly goes off the idea of having breakfast , so I find myself cooking breakfast for this other lump , who is as idol and selfish as anybody ever met in all the born days , and I said to him just recently , I said , I , I ca n't get up and do breakfast 's in the morning any more , well he says he come 's down and does he 's own , you see they can when they feel that they want too . |
| 25 | I do n't care if they 're hallucinating purple snakes and blue baboons , because the whole point of putting them on a boat is that they ca n't get off and swim home , and they ca n't get drugs on board , and they ca n't bribe you to take them to land , and that means they 'll have no damned choice but to get cured . ’ |
| 26 | There 's nothing for you here , she 'd say , nothing here that you ca n't come back and buy . |
| 27 | That 's the idea cos when it 's the exam I ca n't come in and do it for you or show you how to do it . |
| 28 | We ca n't turn round and say , sorry we ca n't afford to assess you , there is a requirement that if somebody presents themselves , we have to assess their needs . |
| 29 | like before the break when you want to have a permanent record of what you 'd done so that you ca n't turn round and say well I do n't remember them conversation |
| 30 | They asked for it they got it , they ca n't turn around and say we 're too busy to deal with it it was their idea |