Example sentences of "we can [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't see why we ca n't have a proper meal after a do . |
| 2 | They said ‘ We ca n't have anything of the sort , we do n't run separate facilities for Asians , and not only that , we are not going to allow you to use the Health Clinic for anything that is solely for Asians . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Chimpanzees are so like us intellectually and physiologically , it 's absurd to think that we ca n't have some kind of rapport . ’ |
| 4 | In Southend , where 3,000 of the 50,000 adult males are reckoned to be Masons , it went into the case of what you might call Preferential Allocation of Council Property , and the battle of one councillor , Christopher Hudson , to break the grip of the men on the Square : ‘ We ca n't have a secret society operating within the framework of a democracy , ’ he said . |
| 5 | The tunnels , given to us by Victorians and Edwardians , are slim , with no twin-tracking-that 's why we ca n't have an all-night service like New York 's ; the tracks have to be walked for maintenance and defluffing nightly . |
| 6 | ‘ And all the guy could say to me was , ‘ We ca n't have gambling ! ’ |
| 7 | We ca n't have more Jewish babies ; we 've got our work cut out liquidating those already polluting our lands . ’ |
| 8 | We ca n't have our cake and eat it . ’ |
| 9 | We ca n't have a scandal like this made public . |
| 10 | ‘ I … we ca n't have … have her here . |
| 11 | I says , ‘ We ca n't have that — we 'll have to get the feller . |
| 12 | ‘ Mrs Duncan 's family pay well to keep her here but we ca n't have her attacking the other patients . |
| 13 | ‘ However , we ca n't have players leaping over defenders , tackling head-on or high tackling . |
| 14 | ‘ We ca n't use paintings full of busy detail , or delicate etchings and watercolours ; we also try to avoid lots of open blank space , because it invites graffiti ; and we ca n't have nudity or bad taste . |
| 15 | We ca n't have two romantic leads . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We ca n't have this sort of thing in Riverbank . |
| 17 | ‘ We ca n't have him dying of thirst before his flesh has been mortified enough to appease the Dark Ones , ’ said Wiggs . |
| 18 | ‘ Now , I want to put a bit of steel through the side and remind them we ca n't have nice games all the time . |
| 19 | Which I think would be a good idea if we got it because I do n't know about you but I 'm always having arguments with people who say oh we ca n't have the whole country covered in windmills and |
| 20 | ‘ We ca n't have books because there might be some kind of secret coded messages written in them . ’ |
| 21 | The other day he was ratty and saying " all I hear is you are the breadwinner and we 've got to be careful , we ca n't have this or that because we ca n't afford it " . |
| 22 | " We ca n't have you fainting away every time we go to an auto-da-fé . " |
| 23 | Yes this is brilliant my goodness , you come to school and you 're doing something brilliant , we ca n't have that |
| 24 | alright , they move it out of Switzerland but if we ca n't have it here we 'll have it in Pakistan or somewhere where they want the money ! |
| 25 | Er who , well we ca n't have everybody shouting out . |
| 26 | We ca n't have Karel planting his creatures willy-nilly through the Company , let alone giving them who knows what orders through his little black boxes . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Then we ca n't have any supper , ’ said Phyllis , unhappily . |
| 28 | ‘ We ca n't have fires in June , ’ said Mother . |
| 29 | We ca n't have that , |
| 30 | we ca n't have that . |