Example sentences of "[vb base] we ca [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They realise we ca n't afford to pay contract money , ’ Lowe said . |
| 2 | I think for me , one of the main questions is how we enter into joint activity with the British Labour Movement , or do we just turn our backs on it and say we ca n't do it , they are too racist , they are too imperialist . |
| 3 | And it 's easier to get along with brother so and so and sister so and so , but for goodness me I find , I find it ever so difficult to talk to sister so and so and there 's an area perhaps that we can er think about , stay awake by being respectful and obedient and that 's something that is very important because it 's completely opposite in the world today , respect for all authority and obedience to it is absolutely gone by the ways I find refrain from criticism and careless talk so there are the main points , but as we say we ca n't go into them all , well , so what we 're going to do is to try and just highlight one or two little areas which we could er enlarge on or put the magnifying glass on , so shall we do that ? |
| 4 | Yeah , but the trouble with it there is that very often you get , you get half of them say we ca n't come Tuesday , but we can come Wednesday |
| 5 | ‘ We say we ca n't keep an eye on them all the time , but the girls are under strict control . ’ |
| 6 | When Dick 's lads are down to seven and a half hours which they are in the erm summertime , I mean we s the lads 'll come in I mean we ca n't pull them off now , but those lads 'll come in and clean up . |
| 7 | If you 're form two they always look to you to , I mean we ca n't do our thing by ourselves but soon as something needs done , doing they look to us . |
| 8 | That 's something we , we , that 's what we found and one of the things we have got is this youth bus actually operating in the town and it erm , it 's running three nights a week , we ca n't cover every bit of the town , but it goes to different area 's of the town , The Stow , and Old Harlow , I mean we 've actually got quite good relationship 's with , with , with the young people in Old Harlow , but erm , I mean we ca n't cover every night , I mean there is a problem , of erm , you know , you you get from a position where you recognise it , you , you , you need to start catering for a particular group and it takes a long time getting there . |
| 9 | I mean we ca n't go into the private market and expect them or asking them to provide houses erm affordable houses as I say the question is what 's an affordable house , who 's got the money to buy the house I would presume , but obviously we know the situation is it 's the lower rent of market , the lower income groups and the unemployed that are suffering very much reasonable accommodation at a rent or at a price they can afford and I reckon this is what hopefully the government was after to say whether we 'll put in our policy and hope that we can get things . |
| 10 | It 's as simple as that I mean we ca n't expect her to do it . |
| 11 | I mean it 's , it 's general I suppose I mean if it would be better to switch it on and off which you can do and er , you know , I mean we ca n't sit here continually talking |
| 12 | No I 've made , it 's made an awful lot of difference to me the New Town I mean we 've got and the Council are very , very good to us , I mean we ca n't say they 're not , they 've had a , I 've had the gas central heating put in , I 've had a shower put in since I 've been here and I mean they do they look after us well , the only thing I 'm upset about that I 've put off the ambulance to go to Leah Manning on a Wednesday because they want me to go on a Tuesday and I can not go on a Tuesday because I have my friend come down which does all odd jobs for me you know , on a Tuesday dear and I just can not so I had to see Mr is it ? |
| 13 | Well when I say Christmas I mean that 's actually decision , I mean we ca n't hurry the meeting that you 've had and we ca n't hurry the meetings one we get |
| 14 | I mean we ca n't grumble , I mean Sheila give |
| 15 | I mean we ca n't keep going shopping every week for , erm providing like all the meal or do we ? |
| 16 | Well , ca n't be helped , I mean we ca n't have water coming through that , that 's down the soil pipe , ca n't have that open for ever |
| 17 | Well that 's the thing with our , I mean we ca n't have one of these erm |
| 18 | You know we ca n't stop him wandering . |
| 19 | But I mean that 's the sort of thing we 've just got to deal with you know we ca n't do anything about that . |
| 20 | ‘ You know we ca n't talk to any outsiders , ’ replied the hijra , ‘ unless Chaman Guruji gives us permission . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You know we ca n't afford it , Len . ’ |
| 22 | And for the women you know I mean it 's i in a situation you probably I do n't know you know this comment that , Oh my my wife 's gon na nag me back to work , or whatever that was made in the beginning probably could be that the women were saying , Oh my God you know we ca n't afford to have you on strike just accept it you know just I 'm definitely not I think really they have felt they have really changed fund fundamentally they 've found a self confidence that they can say no you know it 's not good enough . |
| 23 | But we know we ca n't get into Spain because of the 1992 Olympics . " |
| 24 | You know , I do , I know we ca n't take that . |
| 25 | I know we ca n't have it . |
| 26 | ‘ I suppose we ca n't do anything about it at this stage . |
| 27 | This is — I suppose we ca n't do other than let it happen . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I suppose we ca n't expect to be as spry as we were twenty years ago . ’ |
| 29 | Suppose we ca n't get in . ’ |
| 30 | I said , ‘ I suppose we ca n't believe , any longer , that the purely physical thing matters so much . ’ |