Example sentences of "[adv] ca not [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ca n't have that , and especially ca n't have it while you 're still on the sick list . |
| 2 | For example , I obviously ca n't tell you anything unless and until you hear what I 've said or see what I 've written . |
| 3 | Now obviously you can translate the idea of something being a preventative about illness or sickness , but it 's very difficult to suggest in idiomatic modern English that roses can be a protection against evils , because you really , we really do n't have that kind of concept , normally now , although there are many uses of erm , groups of people who might retain such a concept , and if something like that arises , you obviously ca n't make it idiomatic , because there 's just no way it 's going to work idiomatically in English . |
| 4 | So you obviously ca n't edit it can you , or you should n't it 'll be pointless |
| 5 | Yes , and a whole new way of thinking about doing abstract things with abstract ideas , which probably at that age you suddenly realize it is abstract and , help , you suddenly ca n't do it any more . |
| 6 | ‘ Too tied up for sight-seeing ’ , Tracey had written , ‘ so ca n't tell you much about what Berlin is like . |
| 7 | ‘ Fucking let you down , fucking ca n't do their fucking job ! |
| 8 | ‘ In a way , — I 'm not in the least surprised , but on the other hand , I somehow ca n't see you as one of these modern , independent career women . |
| 9 | But if you just ca n't manage it 's her fault ! |
| 10 | He just ca n't stand it if things do n't work . |
| 11 | I just ca n't stand it at times , but they ca n't give me anything for it . |
| 12 | Neighbour Sue Read said : ‘ He just ca n't face it . ’ |
| 13 | They have good days and bad days : days when things seem relatively easy , they are on the ball , and a lot gets done , and days when they just ca n't face it and phone in sick — only to feel much perkier half-an-hour after putting down the phone , and a little guilty that ‘ I could have gone in if I 'd really had to ’ . |
| 14 | My own home , and I love it , and I just ca n't face it ! |
| 15 | Often I just ca n't fit everything in . |
| 16 | ‘ I just ca n't watch myself , ’ he said in Santander yesterday where he has joined up with the England team to watch tonight 's match against Spain . |
| 17 | Well you just ca n't do nothing ! |
| 18 | You see all these things go by ; it 's like having no hands or feet , you just ca n't do anything . |
| 19 | Malcolm , who is statemented , and has ‘ severe learning difficulties ’ ( as the educational psychologist puts it ) or who is ‘ dyslexic ’ ( as his parents , encouraged by the local Dyslexia Institute , put it ) or whom ‘ you just ca n't do anything with ’ ( as several of his teachers have put it ) , mouths the words as Beth reads and smiles broadly as she finishes . |
| 20 | I just ca n't do anything else . |
| 21 | Now , I ca n't sing — I 've never sung for anyone , I just ca n't do it . |
| 22 | We could do a lot of things but without the finance you just ca n't do it ! |
| 23 | I just ca n't do it ! ’ |
| 24 | Yes that 's been crocheted this one , yeah I ca n't do it , that , that one 's a knitted one , but I ca n't erm I just ca n't crochet , I can knit I 've tried , but I 've tried I just ca n't do it I do n't know why I take the hobby my plants , I 've , I grow those violets from leaves , look behind |
| 25 | very smart answer to that but erm I 've got to carry a shotgun in one hand and handcuffs in the other and still deal with en e eventuality , I just ca n't do it . |
| 26 | Er you know and keep your , and I just ca n't do it . |
| 27 | so I was started work then and I said well look I just ca n't do it and then |
| 28 | we want so much and we just ca n't do it , it 's frustrating John , I mean |
| 29 | It 'll be ideal to do it , but you , actually say you just ca n't do it all . |
| 30 | You just ca n't do it . |