Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't eat no animal fat at all |
| 2 | then I ca n't , if I eat the starter then the main meal I do I ca n't eat the rest . |
| 3 | You can eat the pink bits , mummy says , but you ca n't eat the rest . |
| 4 | Well yes , but there 's an awful lot of yolk and I do n't , really do n't see why you ca n't eat the white of the egg . |
| 5 | I ca n't eat the coleslaw . |
| 6 | You 're not working so hard you ca n't blow a couple of bars of ‘ Casey Jones ’ , are you ? ’ |
| 7 | Now it did n't mean that you build his war machine , but the Kuwaiti people being so close , or actually bordering , we helped the economy of Baghdad , we helped the economy of the Iraq , and we contributed thirteen billion dollars , just the government alone , to their economy and the people of Kuwait also helped with their own private donation to help the schools , the hospitals , the food , whatever they needed , and the country of Kuwait was erm trying to be , as my friend said , as neutral as possible because there is Irani interest in Kuwait , very great through trade , through Iranis who work in Kuwait , so we had a very difficult position with respect to keeping both parties erm sort of in sight , not lose sight of them from our humanistic point of view , but it was erm difficult to avoid being on the side of the Iraqui , mainly because they 're neighbours and they 're Arabs , and you 're part of the league of Arab states , so you ca n't draw the line and say the government was pro or against , but that was the atmosphere which we were leaving . |
| 8 | ‘ You ca n't sack a man because of his friends , ’ he said forthrightly , ‘ and Caretaker 's family have been in Medewich a long time . |
| 9 | If a Zener diode is connected across the d.c. output ( as shown dotted in Fig 1 ) then the voltage ca n't exceed the Zener voltage . |
| 10 | Still , you 'd have to say she ca n't cook a meatloaf . |
| 11 | ‘ You ca n't erase a lifetime of habit by spending two weeks in the sunshine . ’ |
| 12 | And , secondly , though I have studied the Bible , I ca n't recollect every verse . ’ |
| 13 | Again , Palin 's natural humour and ability to laugh at a situation is never far away , but I ca n't shake the feeling that we 've seen it all before somewhere . |
| 14 | In fact , it is desirable that they should meet and get to know each other for a day or two over a safe fence ( possibly a mesh that a horse ca n't kick a leg through ) before they are put in with each other . |
| 15 | He ca n't kick the door down this time . |
| 16 | She ought to be playing ten chukkas a day with really good players , and she ought to get miles away from you so she ca n't kick the shit out of you . ’ |
| 17 | They 're members of Wendy Jeffery 's tap dancing class , and they just ca n't kick the habit . |
| 18 | The couple who ca n't kick the habit . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're a high-powered businessman , though I ca n't guess the business . ’ |
| 20 | You 're lucky because I 'll tell you for why , you ca n't change a video if you buy . |
| 21 | ‘ You want to change the world and you ca n't change a washer . ’ |
| 22 | No , I mean that it comes as a surprise when you first experience it , and then after that you ca n't change the course of events . |
| 23 | For instance , you ca n't check out the card 's configuration just by looking at it , and you ca n't change the configuration if you do n't have the set-up utility . |
| 24 | ‘ You ca n't change the past , ’ said Jack . |
| 25 | You ca n't change the past but you can ruin a perfectly good present by worrying about the future . |
| 26 | We ca n't change the past , but we can all do our best to make the future perfect . ’ |
| 27 | Compaq area sales manager Bernard Schaffer commented ‘ We have some flexibility , but we ca n't change the world , ’ adding ‘ the government is definitely under pressure , but the rules will hurt everybody in the market and finally they will hurt Slovakia . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Well , ’ King George replied , ‘ you ca n't change the world if you sit by the fire . |
| 29 | Very often you ca n't change the situation immediately . |
| 30 | Delectable though you are , even you ca n't change the fact that Peter has never understood exactly what the word ‘ fidelity ’ means . ’ |