Example sentences of "can not [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Get help if you ca n't sort yourselves out on your own .
2 We spend a decade conditioning ourselves to act in a certain way , with a certain decisiveness , caution , thoroughness , and the result is that we ca n't shake it off at half past six and revert to some more natural state .
3 Eventually her voice grated , ‘ You ca n't kick me out like this .
4 Of course he 's worth a lot of money , but you ca n't wrap him up in cotton wool . ’
5 BLACKBURN boss Kenny Dalglish takes his expensive collection of stars to rough and tumble Wimbledon today , insisting : ‘ I ca n't wrap them up in cotton wool . ’
6 That means that the two loans that he had , he ca n't sign them over to me
7 You actually , if they do n't do the r if they do n't actually put anything down then you ca n't conjure it out of nothing but as long as you can get the benefit of the doubt then you 'll prob y'know we 'll give it to you .
8 ‘ The regiment ca n't want you back after all these years . ’
9 If you ca n't plant them out at once , pot up the runners and plant out later .
10 A thousand leeches ca n't suck it out of him .
11 Well , I mean , really what he does is , apart from being a puppy and chewing things , you ca n't tell him off for doing it , because if you do then that 's when he shows , you know , his teeth come back and really he makes you frightened .
12 But Taylor retorted : ‘ You ca n't open yourself up against such a fine Brazilian side , otherwise they will tear you to shreds . ’
13 But if workmen are hammering outside your door , if the noise is intermittent and/or high-pitched , if you ca n't switch it off at will , you may find such noise psychologically distressing as well as distracting .
14 So picking the bones out of that , it 's size , composition , economic significance and locational requirement means that you ca n't bed it down in your ordinary I five allocation .
15 ‘ We ca n't throw him out in this kind of weather . ’
16 ca n't throw anything out on a stormy night
17 Aggie 's friend knows about him , but , as he said , they ca n't pin anything on to him ; they 've been tryin' for a long time .
18 So we ca n't send them up to your doctor .
19 So the way he 's , is n't it the way he 's dressed for that is fine , but you ca n't send him down to court like that .
20 Erm , I 'd much rather you put this in your daytimer of course , and then you ca n't send it back to me .
21 Noah 's Ark , that 's good , what do they do with the animals they ca n't make them out of
22 I saw Toby Latimer myself ; I confess I ca n't make him out at all .
23 You ca n't make anything out of them . ’
24 But we ca n't give it back to 'im , can we , not knowing who 'e is or where 'e lives . ’
25 No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life .
26 Erm , there 's no reason why you ca n't put them in at that price I mean they 're
27 It 's , you can put it in but you ca n't put it back with your fingers you do n't realize it when you go up and get it and you ai n't got enough
28 He 's got his cup of water and now he ca n't put it back on .
29 Now at the beginning of the year , I have no idea how this particular week in November is going to pan out , so I ca n't put it in for a specific day , but I put it in on the Sunday , because it 's specific to that week .
30 It 's two and a half miles from door to door and there are buses later on , but if she 's on the late shift and just misses one , Joelle is faced with another long walk if her mother ca n't pick her up by car .
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