Example sentences of "she ca [not/n't] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She ca n't stand idiots and inefficiency ; nor can I. So that was a bond between us . |
| 2 | ‘ She ca n't stand Brian , ’ said Constance . |
| 3 | ‘ Because if she ca n't make money from the senator 's charter , ’ he went on , ‘ I was thinking of offering her a job or two on my own behalf . |
| 4 | In everyday language we used phrases such as ‘ he behaved inappropriately ’ or ‘ she should know that she ca n't wear trousers here ’ , or even ‘ it 's not cricket ! ’ |
| 5 | She ca n't eat cheese if you 're a vegan . |
| 6 | She said she wanted to get engaged , so you see , she ca n't love Dunbar . |
| 7 | They do n't notice her new suit , she ca n't feel attention on her face like fingers . |
| 8 | She came in order to inform all the women present that ( 1 ) she likes saunas to be hot ( 2 ) she adores pride ( 3 ) she ca n't bear modesty ( 4 ) she loves cold showers ( 5 ) she hates hot showers . |
| 9 | Often she ca n't do PE at school and ca n't walk very far . |
| 10 | Well she ca n't do speech therapy cos she needs |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm sure she ca n't do justice to your designs . |
| 12 | ‘ She loves me , but she ca n't leave Sam ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But she ca n't leave Sam , ’ she said , hoping that the Doctor would contradict her . |
| 14 | She wwent to the High Court in August and won the riught to sue for malicious falsehood , a rare procedure , which she says she has to use because she ca n't afford libel proceedings . |
| 15 | SUPERSTAR Cher always pays for her purchases with cash … because she ca n't write cheques . |
| 16 | all the memory cells and it destroys recent ones so she ca n't remember things from recent but she can remember things from years and years and years ago , it 's really funny . |
| 17 | She ca n't hear beauty singing through them like I can ! |
| 18 | Cos if she , if she ca n't have chocolates ask Zoe what she likes . |
| 19 | The eldest one could n't have children , and quarrels with her husband , and has gone dotty because she ca n't have children , and wanders around in a very odd coat all the time . |
| 20 | And , because she ca n't have children and er this was what , last June it all happened ? |
| 21 | ‘ She ca n't have Guy , so no one else should either ? ’ |
| 22 | She ca n't believe photographers can get away with so much here , ’ said her manager during that visit to London , Jason 's trusted right hand man Richard East . |
| 23 | She ca n't say carnations ! |
| 24 | If their full bellies make me fail to recognise my communality with a woman of colour whose children who do not eat , because she ca n't find work ; or a woman who has no children because her insides are rotten from home abortions and sterilisation ; or if I fail to recognise the lesbian who chooses not to have children , or the woman who remains closeted because her homophobic community is her only life support ; the woman who chooses silence instead of another death ; the woman who is terrified lest any anger triggers the explosion of hers ; if I fail to recognise these women as other faces of myself , then I am contributing to each of their oppressions , but also to my own . |
| 25 | She ca n't see Howard often , because of her husband , whom she loves , and her children . |
| 26 | I know she does wrong things , she tries to organize other people 's lives , she ca n't see Mr Knightley is a man in a million . |
| 27 | I know she ca n't get ticket , do you know where to get them from ? |
| 28 | You say she 's got no friends or contacts here so she ca n't get work , and she ca n't get money — sooner or later , she 's going to surface . ’ |
| 29 | You say she 's got no friends or contacts here so she ca n't get work , and she ca n't get money — sooner or later , she 's going to surface . ’ |
| 30 | so that 's two jobs she 's qualified for and she ca n't get jobs in either |