Example sentences of "ca n't [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ca n't sit here all day ! ’ |
| 2 | But I ca n't sit here all night . |
| 3 | She had booked a sleeper from Paris in terms of time — " I ca n't sit up all night " — not distance " I am going a long way south . " |
| 4 | That woman canes the girls , and the man birches the boys , and sometimes they ca n't sit down all day . |
| 5 | Say something , there 's a love — come on , you ca n't sit there all night … |
| 6 | No , no it 's affecting me now , I ca n't eat that much , because if I , like , I eat |
| 7 | Ca n't eat too many of them can she ? |
| 8 | ‘ Well , well — to think there are people in this world who ca n't guess how that will end . |
| 9 | I know it 's difficult , I know the City is highly congested and we ca n't plough down beautiful buildings in order to make better roads and so on , and that is n't what we want to do . |
| 10 | Consuelo ca n't carry on all day , when she 's stayed there all night . |
| 11 | I said , each person sitting in this room is entitled to their emotions and if you 're unhappy then you should do something about it , because you ca n't carry on this way with this tension , it 's not productive , it 's not fun … ‘ |
| 12 | There are a lot of older people who ca n't carry back big bottles . ’ |
| 13 | You and I ca n't manage even that to any extent . ’ |
| 14 | You ca n't drop out any more . |
| 15 | I ca n't think why all supermarkets do n't put GH at the checkout . |
| 16 | I ca n't think why pure-voiced sopranos like Emma Kirkby have n't also taken it up ; it would suit them very well . |
| 17 | I ca n't think how many megatons it is but I mean , compared to wh compared to the bombs that the super powers have today they 're literally like erm firing a catapult against a cannon , now , because the they 're so many hundreds of megatons these bombs , these sophisticated bombs that the super powers have now , one bomb is capable of blowing up a city a hundred times the size of Nagasaki now , Hiroshima |
| 18 | ‘ Incidentally , if I deliberately breached a power of attorney and exploited it for my own benefit — although I ca n't think how that would be possible — I would be struck off the Roll of Solicitors by the Law Society . ’ |
| 19 | Oh , you ca n't think how relieved I was when you phoned … ’ |
| 20 | This computer is a pretty pathetic one basically and it ca n't hold very much information programme and so once it 's had five records fed into it 's memory it 's full up which is pretty pathetic given the size of each record . |
| 21 | ‘ Words ca n't express how pleased I am . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Words ca n't express how pleased I am . ’ |
| 23 | I ca n't finish that much . |
| 24 | They are often unjustified criticism and aimed at an area you ca n't do too much about , like your appearance . |
| 25 | Keep that keep that running in that case because you ca n't do too much with it . |
| 26 | Yeah , I ca I ca n't do too much at once no well I mean but er |
| 27 | Well I hope she 'll be interested enough to , but , not really before she 's six , cos I asked him last couple of times ago , he said , what sort of age , cos obviously the size of the hands comes into it , they ca n't do too much , but he said he would n't consider before six and you ough t 'a have to take the parents into consideration , of a child that age you got ta have a parent who 's prepared to sit there and make sure the child does what he 's set them to do , because , oh Amy , you not getting any out of that . |
| 28 | No I , no , I mean you really respond very well , that Tchaikovsky was lovely , I understand at the present you ca n't do as much and admirable as you 're still doing . |
| 29 | If you think about a baby coming out bottom first , it ca n't do very much for its hips can it ? |
| 30 | He ca n't do very much short-term about the federal deficit , although he 's sharp enough to see that borrowing short-term cuts interest costs . |