Example sentences of "we can [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to say that reading happens outside of the domain of politics , but that we ca n't easily conflate the two . |
| 2 | To work at that speed we ca n't even drink a cup of tea . |
| 3 | We ca n't even send mail without its being intercepted ! " |
| 4 | We ca n't even lay him to rest . |
| 5 | ‘ We ca n't even detain him any longer . |
| 6 | And we ca n't even get a decent piece of grub round this place now . |
| 7 | We ca n't even , and the worse thing is we ca n't even get a decent piece of grub round this place any more . |
| 8 | We ca n't even get a decent piece of grub . |
| 9 | I mean we ca n't even have a bonfire round our way now , can we , without them phoning the police . |
| 10 | It is hypocritical that we praise Gorbachev and perestroika , praise what is happening in Poland and Hungary , when we ca n't even amend basic policy . ’ |
| 11 | We ca n't even begin to understand something we do n't think exists . |
| 12 | We ca n't do that , we ca n't even keep ourselves informed too easily as to what 's happening . |
| 13 | There 's a forest fifty miles off , it 's outside our window because it 's not in this room and to come a little nearer home ther there 's a campus outside our window but we ca n't exactly see very much of it but we know it 's there and it 's got some birds in it , it 's probably got some little insects in it and there 's a woodpecker |
| 14 | ‘ I mean , we ca n't simply go from table to table asking , can we ? ’ |
| 15 | In the event of an emergency we ca n't simply shunt a patient off to the nearest available cardiac unit or casualty department . |
| 16 | We ca n't say that it occupies the same addresses in all species , because we ca n't meaningfully compare address labels across species . |
| 17 | ‘ There are things we ca n't yet contemplate doing because even if we did we do n't have the processing power to take advantage of them . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Both Mr and Mrs Wyndham have multiple injuries , and , although we 're quite confident that they 'll both pull through , we ca n't yet say whether there will be any permanent damage . |
| 19 | The same is true for the distribution of relative clauses , where we ca n't yet define the set of possible choices that the relative is selected from . |
| 20 | We ca n't just go haring off into the city like that . |
| 21 | ‘ We ca n't just go back . |
| 22 | Yeah , we ca n't just throw five hundred pounds , |
| 23 | " Because we ca n't just stay here . |
| 24 | While equally the white lesbian sister has got to understand that while she 's unified with this Asian lesbian sister there are differences , there are differences some of which are good and some of which are bad , and we have to be frank about them and to struggle around them because we ca n't just pretend that they do n't exist , then we 're not going to reach anywhere . |
| 25 | ’ We ca n't just deliver the phetam now we know it 's stolen . |
| 26 | But we know now that that 's not true : that there are many unconscious and subconscious mental processes which we ca n't just introspect , and that our mental life is far more complicated than we ourselves are ever aware of at the time . |
| 27 | cos we ca n't just stand by and watch her fade away can we ? |
| 28 | So we ca n't just realise the asset , dash out and build a house through a housing association because we have this crucial land problem . |
| 29 | Erm , we ca n't just ignore the responsibilities that we 've been given . |
| 30 | We ca n't just ignore it erm it is proper planning to try and do something about it . |