Example sentences of "we can n't [vb infin] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suppose we ca n't expect to be as spry as we were twenty years ago . ’ |
| 2 | We ca n't say er we ca n't ask to be in a different Division to Notts County and Derby and Leicester . |
| 3 | cos we ca n't seem to be , cos otherwise we look like flipping idiots |
| 4 | We ca n't afford to be annihilated . |
| 5 | We ca n't afford to be made fools of . ’ |
| 6 | We ca n't afford to be caught making what they would take as an act of aggression . ’ |
| 7 | After all , I am paying his salary , and we ca n't afford to be without him for six months . |