Example sentences of "[vb base] [subord] [pers pn] ca [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that 's their right and so you think of something else we you 're not allowed to take them out of a favourite lesson , you 're not allowed to say you are going to miss your football or a P E P E teachers and the football teachers , quite rightly , say if you ca n't keep discipline in your class why why should we be penalized ? |
| 2 | He must know I worry if I ca n't see it . |
| 3 | Tim , please stop cos I ca n't hear daddy think let alone hear him talk . |
| 4 | when the , when , when noise is too loud they just cut cos they ca n't cope with it . |
| 5 | There 's nothing he can do but hope because he ca n't put 30-year-old heads on young shoulders . |
| 6 | Except the brain is screaming for more dopamine , so you overdose because you ca n't accept that the drug is n't working any longer , and it 's then that cocaine starts doing its other things to you . |
| 7 | I mean if you ca n't get it quite quickly and get to grips with it , do n't waste time on it . |
| 8 | Now they 're taking the case up with the Department of Health , the Foreign Office and the Home Office to find out where they stand if he ca n't pay . |
| 9 | Well I 'll tomorrow morning phone them up find out exactly what time , and register you rather than me if it 's you know if I ca n't get to it . |
| 10 | Pass if you ca n't think of one . |
| 11 | Lentils coming from Ethiopia , you get wheat from the States , rice from the States , ap apples from France , tea from India , coffee from Brazil and Columbia , sugar from the Windward Islands , bananas from all over the place , you know those are the things that keep us alive , no , you know , whether we one think they are or not , but I mean them things are what keeps the economy alive for one , it 's also what keeps us personally alive if you do n't know why we take an interest in Third World issues , I would say that it 's that , we 're dependent on these countries , we could produce enough foods for our own needs , but we would n't have oranges , coffee , tea , sugar , you know cos we ca n't grow them in this country we , we really depend on those things to stay alive , and for that reason alone we should have some kind of interest , if you went to Kenya for example they would be staggered at how little you know about their country given how much they know about yours they know a lot about this country , a lot of it is a bit loopy , but then what you know about their country is probably a bit off centre as well , and you know I hope that this is something that we 're reversing in this section , our perceptions of the Third World or the south or whatever we choose to call it , colour a lot of the things that we think and do and say and it increases the amount of racism that there is around us all , all those kind of things , erm and I think that it is really important to look at what a perception is , you know , for example what 's your perception of this ? |
| 12 | Sometimes I get like I ca n't remember how I got some place . |
| 13 | Sometimes I panic because I ca n't remember what he looked like . |
| 14 | You know as you ca n't use a tennis court for anything else or bowling green for anything else . |
| 15 | Like when I ca n't get anything out of the hall , the audience , I turn into myself , close my eyes and try to find something there . ’ |
| 16 | It 's probably the wrong attitude , but I feel if I ca n't keep up , I ca n't keep up , so it does n't really worry me . |
| 17 | ‘ I masturbate when I ca n't get sex , and I weight train when I ca n't masturbate . ’ |
| 18 | Envy because we ca n't do them and horror because they might start doing them to us . |
| 19 | But the rest of the statues stay because they ca n't bear to go away . ’ |
| 20 | Just be very brief , chair , erm could I ask that we have a report before council on this , and I know it will be an extra two hours on the poor council debate , but I think this is so important , and it does affect the planet for hundreds of years to come , and I think if we ca n't have a discussion on this in full council , well , it 's the most important thing we 've had for years probably , and I think we should have a discussion before council sit . |
| 21 | Businesses fail because they ca n't pay their bills . |
| 22 | You paint because you ca n't help it even if you never make any money with it . ’ |
| 23 | He asked me to tell you , I think because he ca n't bear to talk about it . |
| 24 | Please help as we ca n't take her anywhere , she just goes mad ! |
| 25 | ‘ Come on , Miss Dyke , ’ said Jamie , ‘ let's have a ripalong-a-Lucy session and see if we ca n't shoosh you m-to a better frame of mind . |
| 26 | We ought to run things properly and see if we ca n't do things better in future . ’ |
| 27 | And since it looks as if we 're all goin' to the same place , why do n't we take our kit to the left luggage then see if we ca n't find that canteen ? ’ |
| 28 | Erm , what we have to do is to look at , if you like , the way in which A , we can improve what we do erm , and see if we ca n't get more out of the two of you than we do currently , I 'm sure you 'll enjoy what we 're doing . |
| 29 | See if they ca n't find it |
| 30 | I 'm going to investigate , see if I ca n't do a conv I do n't think for one minute I will but it 's possible do a conversion er into erm the box type . |