Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Money ca n't mek yu happy |
| 2 | Money ca n't mek yu happy , yu happiness is paper thin |
| 3 | One thing it ca n't spot is the amount of video RAM on your VGA card . |
| 4 | All that 's doing is for the senior associates , saying well look , I 've got such a large client bank I ca n't service them myself , so what should I be thinking of doing ? |
| 5 | You ca n't isolate stress from the general management context . ’ |
| 6 | annoying cos I sort of flared up with them and said , Well quote me the law , and they ca n't quote you the law I mean they it 's just someone who they seem to be we do it . |
| 7 | Murray overseas , ca n't quote today , first thing Monday . |
| 8 | We ca n't sit here all day ! ’ |
| 9 | Marie gets all excited when she gets a good idea — suddenly she 's all full of energy and she ca n't sit still . |
| 10 | I know you 're unhappy , but you ca n't sit indoors and brood about it all day . ’ |
| 11 | She s a bit dodgy on her feet and I 'm a bit nervous about her , but she 's got to the stage now when she ca n't sit in all day without exercise . |
| 12 | The weather ca n't be controlled and I hate sitting around waiting for it to clear up because I ca n't sit still for too long ! |
| 13 | So I ca n't sit there and observe someone bringing in my stuff . |
| 14 | You ca n't sit here laughing like this , you know . |
| 15 | ‘ You really have to use your brain , you have to anticipate things and you ca n't sit back and think it will all be all right . ’ |
| 16 | That woman canes the girls , and the man birches the boys , and sometimes they ca n't sit down all day . |
| 17 | I 'll know when I ca n't sit in the blasted saddle . ’ |
| 18 | I ca n't sit still . ’ |
| 19 | The floor is only ten inches square so you ca n't sit down or squat in it . |
| 20 | ‘ I ca n't sit on my rear for long , hanging round this ancient hotel . |
| 21 | " Fiver , you ca n't sit crying here . |
| 22 | But it was true , what Jim said , in business you ca n't stand still , you go up or you go down , you ca n't just sit comfortably in your own 1972 executive four-bedroomed plate-glass-windowed centrally heated wall-to-wall-carpeted gadget-equipped house , with your Rover and your wife 's Mini in the two-car garage , and your pot plants in your loggia , and your electric lawn mower in the shed : you ca n't sit still and enjoy it , you ca n't call it a day and call a halt when you own it all and do n't owe anyone a penny , you have to go on and on , relentlessly onwards , juggling with larger and larger sums , owing more , paying out more , until finally perhaps the whole thing comes tumbling round your head like a pack of cards . |
| 23 | Say something , there 's a love — come on , you ca n't sit there all night … |
| 24 | 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 . " |
| 25 | Besides , there 's a lot of rain , even I ca n't sit out in that . |
| 26 | Joanne ca n't sit still long enough to feed her , but I love it . |
| 27 | ‘ We ca n't sit here forever , ’ Donna said finally . |
| 28 | But I ca n't sit here all night . |
| 29 | I ca n't sit back and let Liz get on with it . ’ |
| 30 | And he ca n't sit quietly and talk to people now . |