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 .
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