Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | in the seventies but like er you can do it in the seventies you ca n't do it in the nineties . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's a long story and one I ca n't tell you in the street . |
| 3 | ‘ We ca n't burn it in the grate — Dad might come back , we might n't clean up in time . |
| 4 | ‘ You ca n't leave him in the dark like that , ’ Tina exploded indignantly . |
| 5 | I ca n't leave her in the lurch . ’ |
| 6 | But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year . |
| 7 | You ca n't stick it in the oven that 's plastic . |
| 8 | I suppose she 's just done one for you , no wonder you ca n't look me in the face . ’ |
| 9 | But he ca n't look me in the face . |
| 10 | That 's why you ca n't look me in the eyes . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't look you in the eye . ’ |
| 12 | I ca n't see her in the dark , but from the hushed swell of her breathing I could draw you the map of her body . |
| 13 | You ca n't see them in the basket . ’ |
| 14 | They do n't er , you ca n't see them in the same way you could go and see your parents . |
| 15 | Well I ca n't see them in the negotiating when he knows what 's going on . |
| 16 | And whilst you probably ca n't see it in the air . |
| 17 | They get bored easily , so if you ca n't excite them in the first 30 seconds of your record , you are probably in the wrong business . |
| 18 | I am spell-bound by the sound of French , infuriated when I ca n't read it in the books I am given . |
| 19 | But erm I mean , you know , she come in oh I ca n't have her in the morning anyway cos we 're we 're counting in the morning . |
| 20 | Erm no what coming out of this is that how that although one would assume in the south that the peasants ought to be more revolutionary , in actual fact it 's the reverse and why is this happening , is it because of the fact that the Communist Party were in the n that maybe essentially that the peasants in China er were reactionary and worked within the confines of moral economy , but because of the presence of the Communist Party in the north they became more revolutionary and that 's sort of suggested by the success of land reform there and the fact that how , that they ca n't implement it in the south . |
| 21 | The one time you see it is when a woman takes her clothes off and can not look you in the eyes ( as I could n't then ) . |