Example sentences of "can n't [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I ca n't stay on this doorstep all day — I 've got the lunches to supervise . |
| 32 | Alamena knows we ca n't stay in each other 's company for longer than a minute or two without quarrelling . ’ |
| 33 | We ca n't stay in this house . |
| 34 | You ca n't aspire to that degree of quality , but Peter Kirsten , who was my schoolboy hero , … well I think I can get to his level as a fieldsman and , perhaps , batsman . ’ |
| 35 | But I ca n't cope with that sort of thinking . ’ |
| 36 | I ca n't cope with another person yet . |
| 37 | She just ca n't cope with this sort of thing . |
| 38 | I really ca n't cope with this mountain of admin , ’ and it 's amazing how many men ca n't wait to wade in to rescue me . ’ |
| 39 | Merlyn said , irritably : ‘ Well , come on , Ben , we ca n't stand in this passage for ever . ’ |
| 40 | Although I do n't think it 's impossible that it ca n't be the other way , that two people ca n't grow toward each other . |
| 41 | ‘ Ca n't tell from this distance . ’ |
| 42 | Well the the situation is also that it 's confusing in terms of Apex , Supersavers , Savers , Nonsavers er you ca n't travel on these trains at certain times , you 've got to plan your journey three months ahead if you want to get the maximum savings and all the rest of it . |
| 43 | We ca n't travel in this cold . |
| 44 | I 'm afraid he ca n't settle to any business else ’ . |
| 45 | But even the milkman 's timing ca n't compare with those supremos who have perfected the art of appearing at the door at the most irritating time possible — the Jehovah Witnesses . |
| 46 | Even though you start from that corner , you ca n't go through that hoop . |
| 47 | He ca n't go into some shops in the city , because of his disability . |
| 48 | He ca n't go into some shops in the city , because of his disability . |
| 49 | He ca n't go into some shops in the city , because of his disability . |
| 50 | So you know once you 've gone to them No once you 've gone to them for advertising you ca n't go to that person for something else . |
| 51 | ‘ We ca n't go on this way . ’ |
| 52 | You ca n't go near that place ! ’ |
| 53 | ‘ We ca n't go in this weather , ’ Julie said , looking out of the window . |
| 54 | that political argument seems , I mean you ca n't win in this game can you ? |
| 55 | ‘ Mr Holmes , the best detective in the world ca n't help with some things , ’ said Mortimer . |
| 56 | ‘ No , but you ca n't see into that cove from the way I came . |
| 57 | You know I ca n't see from that distance I thought John had a snowman badge on today , when I got close it 's an owl and it said I am the vet . |
| 58 | You know erm I ca n't understand to this day why he did it . |
| 59 | Ex-alignment maps are vital to good railway understanding while on the walk and I really ca n't understand in these days of easily accomplished and cheap computer graphic why Martin plumped for his own blobbing pen . |
| 60 | You ca n't dispose of such pieces wholesale . |