Example sentences of "i can not [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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1 | I ca n't smell anything now . |
2 | I ca n't smell anything |
3 | No , oh cos I ca n't smell anything . |
4 | ‘ I ca n't serve anything that needs thinking about when people are meeting to discuss big money deals — all fish must be filleted here , for example — but all the food must be good . ’ |
5 | But there 's some awkward ones and they 've got to concentrate on the awkward ones so that you get this impression I ca n't spell anything . |
6 | Thought I ca n't give one without the other . |
7 | Another feeling , which is much more likely if you talk about my character , would be that I ca n't give anything more to this ensemble , that it 's time for someone fresher to guide these people in the right direction . |
8 | It says I ca n't give anything away but that the show is show 's not a load of old cosh tonight |
9 | I ca n't bear anything else now . ’ |
10 | Nowadays I ca n't bear anything to do with football , kicking an air-filled pig 's bladder up and down a muddy pitch ai n't my idea of fun . |
11 | ‘ I ca n't bear anyone asking me for help . |
12 | No I ca n't eat one . |
13 | Ooh I ca n't eat one yet . |
14 | ‘ I ca n't eat anything , ’ he growled , putting his head in his hands . |
15 | no I 'm not no when I am I ca n't eat anything , if I was like that I just could n't bear to be even in the same room as anybody who 's eating , so no the urge of chocolate is possibly to do with fat |
16 | See I ca n't wear anything like that they 're all too bloody long on me . |
17 | I ca n't drink anything , smoke anything , I 'm through . |
18 | But I ca n't drink owt . |
19 | Once I had a pretty decent collection of films on tape , but I ca n't handle anything continuous any more . |
20 | Do you know what I mean it is erm it 's his car and I ca n't do nothing wrong with it . |
21 | Sometimes I get embarrassed if I ca n't do summat on my own . |
22 | If I ca n't do something that simple then I 'm not worthy to be called your partner ’ |
23 | Tomorrow , Jimmy I ca n't do everything . |
24 | I ca n't do everything properly you know ! |
25 | ‘ I ca n't do anything else , Bob , ’ Howard said quietly , ‘ except sit here on my tod , as you put it . |
26 | ‘ I ca n't do anything if the team does n't do things for me . ’ |
27 | I ca n't do anything . ’ |
28 | I ca n't do anything to please him . |
29 | He said : ‘ I could n't do anything about Auschwitz and Dachau — and I ca n't do anything in Bosnia . ’ |
30 | But I ca n't do anything with it because I lost the numbers . |