Example sentences of "[pron] ca " in BNC.
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| 1 | When someone ca n't cope with panic attacks , agoraphobia is often the consequence and treating this condition requires specialist help . |
| 2 | Someone says something particularly stupid in a shop , or you wait half an hour in the British Rail canteen because someone ca n't decide whether they want some fruitcake or not . |
| 3 | If someone ca n't read aloud competently , this does not mean he ca n't read at all : consider the number of us who could read French silently and understand it , but who would find it very difficult to " sound it out " and read it aloud . |
| 4 | someone ca n't get hold of you . |
| 5 | I can go up once I get my ca n't I ? |
| 6 | Dad I wish I was you , laughing at the bar beach come here , misguided crew I could n't handle those things because I come in say this is my ca n't stand my brother boy |
| 7 | Many existing systems which do n't already heat the hot water can be adapted to do so , but if yours ca n't ( an early warm air system , say ) or if you 're installing one of the few types of system that does n't also heat the hot water ( such as electric storage radiators ) , you will have to choose the hot water system . |
| 8 | His ca n't be traced because he does n't have a licence for it . ’ |
| 9 | If I ca n't take him he will have a two-hour wait for an ambulance . |
| 10 | ‘ I ca n't cope with life … ’ |
| 11 | In his note he asked for medical help — some vitamins , eye-drops , ‘ as I ca n't go out ’ — and for some money . |
| 12 | I ca n't be sure . |
| 13 | In short : frankly , these days , without a theory to go with it , I ca n't see a painting . ’ |
| 14 | Like sunnink reely glamorous that everyone wants an' I ca n't see woss so wrong wiv vat. 'Cos I ai n't gonner get no kitchen wiv pitcher winders an' some geezer wiv a pipe like you was on abaht am I now ? |
| 15 | Perhaps radio will allow me to play all the unsuitable roles that I ca n't do visually in the theatre , where it 's just the voice and the character . |
| 16 | Having been lucky with the only real audition I did which was for the RSC , I ca n't really complain about it . |
| 17 | And , of course , working with professional directors who wo n't say things like ‘ Your uvula is n't relaxed enough ’ , but simply ‘ I ca n't hear you ’ . |
| 18 | I ca n't explain it more than that . |
| 19 | I ca n't escape it . |
| 20 | That 's why I ca n't go on with it . |
| 21 | ‘ I ca n't serve anything that needs thinking about when people are meeting to discuss big money deals — all fish must be filleted here , for example — but all the food must be good . ’ |
| 22 | How that girl can bring herself to sit there singing it I ca n't imagine . |
| 23 | If I ca n't find Mr Clancy , maybe David can coax it to work . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Constable Bewman here pointed out that each guest had their plate handed to them by Edith but I ca n't see how that would give the murderer any scope . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I ca n't tell you if Mrs Iverson had any port . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I ca n't remember now . |
| 27 | Truth be told , I ca n't really remember what I did do in those six months . |
| 28 | It may be that I ca n't help , but … ’ |
| 29 | I ca n't stand this any more . |
| 30 | ‘ I ca n't . ’ |