Example sentences of "can [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , if he was repairing the machinery , it ca n't have been safe in the first place , can it ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Your precious George ca n't have done much good if the main burst again . ’ |
| 3 | I do n't see why we ca n't have a proper meal after a do . |
| 4 | ‘ No , I 'm sure I put it in my apron pocket , but I ca n't have done . |
| 5 | I 've had another word with Personnel and they say that even though I ca n't have any more full-timers , I can have a part-timer to help me with making the sandwiches in the morning and clearing up last thing at night . |
| 6 | ‘ You ca n't have . |
| 7 | ‘ There ca n't have been a toad . |
| 8 | You ca n't have any . |
| 9 | Ian Botham ca n't have been expecting to have such a free winter , but he 's certainly filling it innovatively with a national tour of his show , An Evening With Ian Botham . |
| 10 | The politician is the organ of society for having its cake and eating it , for escaping , if only for a moment , if only through a form of art — art is , after all , a means of escape — from the grimness of reality , from this grim fact that you ca n't have the cake and eat it , that you ca n't have public expenditure increased in excess of the rate of increase of the national product , unless private claims are correspondingly surrendered . |
| 11 | The politician is the organ of society for having its cake and eating it , for escaping , if only for a moment , if only through a form of art — art is , after all , a means of escape — from the grimness of reality , from this grim fact that you ca n't have the cake and eat it , that you ca n't have public expenditure increased in excess of the rate of increase of the national product , unless private claims are correspondingly surrendered . |
| 12 | You ca n't have a human society without crime . |
| 13 | You ca n't have law and order without lawlessness and disorder , just as you ca n't have light without darkness . |
| 14 | You ca n't have law and order without lawlessness and disorder , just as you ca n't have light without darkness . |
| 15 | Mr Power ca n't have done because now and then when rebellion stirred during overlong film repairs he rushed down the aisle cracking a whip . |
| 16 | We knew he was the owner of the club and — while he ca n't have been more than four-foot-nine inches tall — we knew that Soho was run by Maltese gangsters just like him . |
| 17 | Malcolm said OK , but even he ca n't have had any idea what Christopherson intended . |
| 18 | He ca n't have put it there for effect because he did n't know who was going to be there . |
| 19 | Seriously , coal does n't exist outside of a market condition , OK ? and you ca n't have a market condition without someone to extract the damn stuff . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | Often even young children ca n't have a comfortable nap during the day . |
| 22 | ‘ Ca n't have that , Jack . |
| 23 | A pretty pass we 've come to if a man ca n't have a friend without being labelled queer . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ They ca n't have felt a thing . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Chimpanzees are so like us intellectually and physiologically , it 's absurd to think that we ca n't have some kind of rapport . ’ |
| 26 | You ca n't have one without the other . ’ |
| 27 | Only then do you understand the heartache of women whose pregnancies end in disaster or those who ca n't have the baby they want . |
| 28 | ‘ You ca n't have a rash on your tongue . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Their sword cabinet routine ca n't have come from MFI ‘ because there are n't any bits left over ’ . |