Example sentences of "he ca [adv] [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , he calmly surveys them , holds his hands up for silence — and I know for a fact he ca n't speak a word of Japanese . ’ |
| 2 | He is a really sober person , he ca n't handle a drink at all . |
| 3 | He ca n't marry an actress . ’ |
| 4 | But he ca n't repress a shudder as he recalls the day he learned of his wife 's death , at first being told that she had drowned . |
| 5 | ‘ He ca n't knock a nail in a wall , ’ his mother had said before they married . |
| 6 | He ca n't do a thing . |
| 7 | Well he ca n't do a thing about it ! |
| 8 | In a small number of cases the defendant will have deliberately driven without a licence because he ca n't pass a test ; he is a visitor to Britain and because he has been granted leave to stay , he now requires a licence etc. , i.e. within 12 months for a visitor . |
| 9 | If he ca n't make a go of them , nobody can . ’ |
| 10 | She said , Well , she said , The truth is you know we keep bringing sticks in and that , but he 's got no er he 's got no fire , he 's got no coal , he ca n't he ca n't make a fire . |
| 11 | So he puts it on the table and tries to squash it into shape , and by the time he 's got his mouth full of that he ca n't make a sound . |
| 12 | Well there 's the fact that he might have borrowed the money for a ten million pound project , and he ca n't have a use of it because it 's named and he 's paying interest |
| 13 | If he ca n't afford a Solicitor and he feels he ought to be represented by a Solicitor , he may apply for Legal Aid , and of course it 's public money concerned so I suppose in an ideal society everybody would be legally assisted who wanted to be , but obviously we ca n't afford that as a country , so that erm generally erm his application would be judged according to certain criteria erm which would suggest perhaps he needed to be represented . |
| 14 | ‘ He ca n't afford a lawyer . |
| 15 | If he ca n't understand a man 's obliga-tion to a friend , how can he understand a man 's love for a woman ? |
| 16 | ‘ One of the things he ca n't do , he ca n't ride a horse , ’ he said . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , do n't worry about him , ’ he continued , ‘ he ca n't hear a word we 're saying , in a world of his own he is . ’ |
| 18 | He says that he 's fed up of going round in circles — how can he make a fresh start when he ca n't get a grant for clothing , and so ca n't then tunr up for job interviews ? |
| 19 | ‘ I 've phoned the agent in Palermo , but he ca n't get a replacement set sent down before tomorrow afternoon . ’ |
| 20 | Mind you , I 've been keeping up the ice dance so all the canals are frozen and he ca n't get a match to fish , ’ joked Dave , who runs Midlands Angling Products . |
| 21 | But he ca n't get a job — because he 's blind and deaf . |
| 22 | He ca n't get a job . |
| 23 | His brother has lent him some for the time being , but Mr Szuluk says without proper clothes , he ca n't get a job . |
| 24 | Times are hard for Alan Soden and his family — he ca n't get a job and his family have to live on state benifits . |
| 25 | He ca n't abide a woman in trousers . |
| 26 | He said , when he come , he said , he ca n't take a photograph just yet , 'cos it 's erm , weather 's not good enough . |
| 27 | Will the criminal have to climb down from the roof ( in which case he ca n't take a lot with him ) , or can he go downstairs and let himself out of the house ? |
| 28 | ‘ He ca n't believe a Minister would do that . |
| 29 | This dirge is delivered with such programmed monotony surely he ca n't believe a bit of it himself . |
| 30 | ‘ Poor old Colonel — he does love his cricket and of course he ca n't drive a car at the moment . |