Example sentences of "they can [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teenagers may begin to take drugs to help them escape from adolescent problems they ca n't cope with . |
| 2 | In this mode of attribution young people are not spoken of as having tragic love affairs , rather it is said that ‘ they ca n't cope with physical sexual experiences ’ . |
| 3 | Some of the criticisms which are voiced by service planners and professionals when thinking about ordinary housing for long-term patients is that it is ‘ too expensive ’ , or that ‘ They ca n't cope on their own , ’ or that ‘ They 'll be affected by the same stresses and strains that put them in hospital in the first place . ’ |
| 4 | They ca n't cope with real life and kill themselves . |
| 5 | then n you know they ca n't cope with it . |
| 6 | And they ca n't cope |
| 7 | Meanwhile council officers in Swindon say they ca n't cope with any more terrapins . |
| 8 | Hearing dogs for the deaf have become increasingly popular over the past ten years — now the staff who train them say they ca n't cope with the demand . |
| 9 | they ca n't cope with the usual |
| 10 | and it goes through their , for the rest of their twenties , the rest of their thirties and most of their forties and then suddenly bang maybe something ghastly seems to be happening which they are absolutely unaware of , you know , they do n't know why they are crying or , or er unable to cope with whatever they ca n't cope with and that 's it , that 's them off and they start worrying about er osteoporosis and you know an enormous number of , of now medically defined problems of the menopause , and they may start going on to all sorts of things like hormone replacement therapy or even primrose oil or whatever the hell and they 're sitting there at an age when they are fairly loaded up with experience and maturity and all the rest of it and they do n't know what they are doing . |
| 11 | Well no even his mum , you know they ca n't cope with two . |
| 12 | when the , when , when noise is too loud they just cut cos they ca n't cope with it . |
| 13 | It 's one of the advantages of a bar , they ca n't bug them all . |
| 14 | They ca n't gas you no . |
| 15 | They ca n't gas you they ca n't chair you they can keep you away from your parents for the rest of your life . |
| 16 | Some teachers say that they ca n't leave out attractive or valuable items on open display in classrooms and corridors in case of theft or damage . |
| 17 | And it bounces it comes in through the atmosphere , through all the gasses , they ca n't leave again , as it usually can . |
| 18 | How often Mother used to say ‘ They ca n't leave Swindon under ten minutes , no matter how late we are ’ . |
| 19 | They ca n't leave the business . |
| 20 | Of course , this is something that private schools already do , but it is interesting that , even in the public sector , some ‘ magnet ’ schools , upset by their relatively poor performance in examination results , are asking if they ca n't exclude children who come to them on placing requests from deprived areas . |
| 21 | We do n't care if they ca n't dance , we still love them and they 're bald . |
| 22 | no especially wearing glasses like that they ca n't knock it down , but they 've got to move it , well how they gon na do that then ? |
| 23 | ‘ Ach , I 've always got my newspaper for when they ca n't reverse . |
| 24 | I do n't care if they 're hallucinating purple snakes and blue baboons , because the whole point of putting them on a boat is that they ca n't get off and swim home , and they ca n't get drugs on board , and they ca n't bribe you to take them to land , and that means they 'll have no damned choice but to get cured . ’ |
| 25 | If they get that worked up , they ca n't calm down can they ? |
| 26 | Even if they ca n't inflict any wounds they can still swamp him with weight of numbers . |
| 27 | They would certainly have time to get to the river Almond and cut off any interference from the garrisons there at Perth and at Scone , even if they ca n't overwhelm them . |
| 28 | I think it 's a stigma that a lot of men feel they ca n't show that they 're depressed or they 've got a problem so they 'll pick up a ph , a phone . |
| 29 | ‘ I mean that without evidence , they ca n't bring a charge . ’ |
| 30 | They ca n't fool me with that ‘ powdering my nose ’ act . |