Example sentences of "can [adv] [vb infin] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know if this was my business , I would have budgeted for this amount of advertising to be ab I mean you ca n't sit it by getting at home er you ca n't get it by sitting at home . |
| 2 | If you ca n't eat it or , better , drink it then they do n't want it . |
| 3 | I 'm really not a great buyer — if I ca n't wear it and I ca n't eat it , then I 'm not that bothered . |
| 4 | I ca n't eat it . ’ |
| 5 | Aye , oh yes , when you ca n't , when you ca n't eat it 's not much fun . |
| 6 | You 've either got to eat the cake , in which case you no longer have the cake , or you decide to preserve the cake , in which case you ca n't eat it . |
| 7 | Occasionally I might buy him the big third Mac , the third Big Mac , just to prove to him he ca n't eat it , and this establishes in the superego a , that the , the superego to some extent speaks for reality and , and the reality sense is part of the , is part of the standards which are built into , which are built into the superego , and to , and therefore to a large extent the superego opposes the pleasure principle that operates in the id . |
| 8 | I ca n't eat it . |
| 9 | No you ca n't eat it . |
| 10 | no , no , ca n't eat it yet |
| 11 | You ca n't eat it all |
| 12 | I ca n't eat it plain . |
| 13 | I ca n't eat it I do n't think so he had a big lunch |
| 14 | Ca n't eat it . |
| 15 | It 's abso , I ca n't eat it now |
| 16 | No , I ca n't , it 'll , if you do n't take the head of it I ca n't eat it , I could n't even , I have prawn cocktail and you have a prawn , they put , they put a prawn on top whole , I could n't eat that , I could have peeled it , I looked at it and I thought about it , no , I can eat them when there done |
| 17 | Ca n't eat it properly |
| 18 | Oh no , it 's like , it 's like with chocolate as well , I cut it up into little pieces , because I ca n't eat it all at once . |
| 19 | If it 's a bank account where you 've both got to sign before you can draw the money , one dies the other ca n't draw it out because you ca n't have two signatures so it 's tenants in common and it would be split in accordance with whatever the agreed proportions were . |
| 20 | you ca n't draw it in yellow cos it do n't er take on this so I 'm going |
| 21 | You chose , I ca n't sort it out I ai n't playing no more , it 's damn boring ! |
| 22 | One day she was looking rather appalled about something each of us had done , which she thought very silly , and said , ‘ Thank goodness I ca n't inherit it ! , ’ |
| 23 | You ca n't harness it . ’ |
| 24 | We spend a decade conditioning ourselves to act in a certain way , with a certain decisiveness , caution , thoroughness , and the result is that we ca n't shake it off at half past six and revert to some more natural state . |
| 25 | I do n't know but he ca n't shake it off . |
| 26 | We ca n't shrug it off . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ When you take your finger off , you ca n't change it , you know . |
| 28 | Everything is , is , whether it 's pollution or anything else erm you ca n't , you ca n't change it . |
| 29 | You ca n't change it can you ? |
| 30 | Do you think that that 's just the way things are and they ca n't change it and society gives me more economic power and he has more natural strength , so this is an on-going battle that wo n't change very much ? |