Example sentences of "i ca [not/n't] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | That sounded wistful so she added robustly , ‘ I know I said I liked seeing the crowd in here but that does n't mean I ca n't manage on my own . |
2 | I 'm just plain and uninteresting and I ca n't compete with you , but I do want him so very much . |
3 | " You 've been lovely and I 'm leading you on but I ca n't deliver at the moment . |
4 | ‘ I ca n't sit through a whole film without a cigarette . ’ |
5 | ‘ I ca n't sit on my rear for long , hanging round this ancient hotel . |
6 | I ca n't sit on seat . |
7 | I ca n't sit under there . |
8 | I ca n't sit for much longer than an hour . |
9 | I 'll know when I ca n't sit in the blasted saddle . ’ |
10 | ‘ No , ’ she said , ‘ I ca n't sit in the kitchen . |
11 | But I ca n't sit in the car very long . |
12 | ‘ I ca n't conceive of making films without thinking about what I 'm doing . |
13 | " I shall make it plain to Howarth that you and I ca n't serve in the same Lab . |
14 | I ca n't talk to people , they 're too separate from me . |
15 | Obviously I ca n't talk to anyone about it . |
16 | I ca n't talk to them or anything so |
17 | ‘ I ca n't talk to something without ears , ’ she thought . |
18 | ‘ I ca n't talk to you while Jim 's there . ’ |
19 | ‘ I ca n't talk to you now . |
20 | I ca n't talk to him , not about private matters . |
21 | ‘ I ca n't talk to you now , Stella . |
22 | ‘ That does n't mean I ca n't talk to you , does it ? ’ |
23 | I ca n't talk to her . |
24 | I ca n't talk for other sports but I can stress again that we 've got the highest ratio of black members of any golf body in the world . |
25 | I 'm in a spot of trouble so I ca n't talk for long . |
26 | I 'm not , I 'm not just blaming them all the time , I mean , the situation is , when they go out on the field , they are their own men , I ca n't do anything about there , I ca n't talk for them out there ; I can only put it on in training , and when they get out there , they 've got to do it theirselves . |
27 | you know I ca n't talk with these things . |
28 | I ca n't talk about the tea-party tonight . |
29 | I ca n't talk about it now , because nobody I know is in the least bit interested . |
30 | I ca n't talk about the future . |