Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | But as long as we 've got ca n't enjoy myself , ca n't even have a fag , might as well have , not be going ! |
| 32 | I ca n't even have a bet on , on Saturday |
| 33 | Ooh I 've been listening really carefully an I I ca n't even have a hazard a guess at this one . |
| 34 | See you ca n't even have a civilized con |
| 35 | I ca n't even have a |
| 36 | And he ca n't even ride a bike … |
| 37 | I mean if , if you live on your own you ca n't even peel a potato |
| 38 | " You ca n't just threaten a man like that , " the ex-soldier said . |
| 39 | ‘ You ca n't just make a performance of everything you have seen . |
| 40 | ‘ You ca n't just rent a villa or a flat overlooking the Med and install yourself for a peppercorn rent like people used to . |
| 41 | ‘ At the same time , you ca n't just give a heap of numbers . |
| 42 | ‘ You ca n't just dig a hole and bury them . |
| 43 | I ca n't just exorcize a person because he tells a lie . " |
| 44 | Obviously you ca n't just take a vocal line from some traditional Japanese album and put it straight into a heavy metal song because it 's not going to work ! |
| 45 | So erm and I , I ca n't just take a flexi-day because I 'm already , I 've already got leave to use . |
| 46 | I ca n't just let a human take over . |
| 47 | You ca n't just put a speed hump down everywhere . |
| 48 | Er and when nobody is there I ca n't just put a tape machine on the desk and leave it running ! |
| 49 | ‘ I did n't know Alex well but you ca n't not know a lad who lives in the same street . ’ |
| 50 | I play in all types of weather and very few people play tennis anyway so you ca n't always get a game . |
| 51 | Yes , the difference of course is that in two day cricket you ca n't necessarily guarantee a result er and forcing wins was what we did n't quite manage to do , it was er it was a season of what might have been for the County Cricket Club er a very good season but not quite as successful as last year . |
| 52 | And , and , erm just as the changing headmastership of , of a , a big school never alters the character of the school for years and years because it 's like a ship which has got momentum going through the water , you ca n't suddenly change a thing with so many passengers , erm so many tonnes and so on . |
| 53 | ‘ But I ca n't ever remember a storm like this one ever having occurred in this area before , ’ said Cardiff . |
| 54 | ‘ You must have so much to talk about that you ca n't possibly want a stranger , ’ said Julia . |
| 55 | ‘ You ca n't possibly bring a woman along . |
| 56 | I do n't like those very specialist audiences , the kind that you get at festivals , where you ca n't possibly play a Scott Joplin encore , in case you offend someone . |
| 57 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 58 | Chris Patten was saying that he ca n't actually put a figure on how much all of this is likely to cost because he 's still in the middle of the public sector borrowing grant and , this is all part of his negotiation with the Treasury , but do you think he has actually lost the battle with the Treasury . |
| 59 | Well , you ca n't actually see a curve can you , when you look around . |
| 60 | If it was seen like that you ca n't actually solve a erm a linear problem which occurs between these two sets of units . |