Example sentences of "[pron] ca [adv] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ca n't be be'ind that counter all the time . |
| 2 | Oh , drop that , I ca n't be Suzanne , never was Suzanne , never will be . |
| 3 | You ca n't be Nora . |
| 4 | In business , you ca n't be expert at everything . |
| 5 | You ca n't be Matthew . |
| 6 | You ca n't be Walter in a pram . |
| 7 | You ca n't be Walter until you 're about seventy-five in my view . |
| 8 | F—ing hell , she ca n't be Elton John every day ! |
| 9 | Peter tried to rouse his countrymen from their aboriginal stupor and turn them into Europeans ; but a Russian is n't and ca n't be a German or a Frenchman , and the result of Peter 's efforts was to produce an educated class who ca n't be Russians either . |
| 10 | I said to her : ‘ Sabine , we ca n't be friends if we are n't working together . ’ |
| 11 | But is there any reason why we ca n't be friends ? ’ |
| 12 | What a pity we ca n't be friends . ’ |
| 13 | I mean , we ca n't be Fontainebleau or Versailles ! |
| 14 | We ca n't be robots ’ . |
| 15 | So if erm , if they 're not used , they 've got to be thrown away , they ca n't be sort of used again the next day , the veg . |
| 16 | They ca n't be alwayth a learning , nor yet they ca n't be alwayth a working , they a n't made for it ’ . |
| 17 | They ca n't be alwayth a learning , nor yet they ca n't be alwayth a working , they a n't made for it ’ . |
| 18 | Well it ca n't be B because Stephanie pisses standing up |
| 19 | If it was not Bradley Hall , it ca n't be Bradley Hall again , they 're always going in there ! |
| 20 | It is n't Robina — it ca n't be Bina ? ’ |
| 21 | It ca n't be love . |
| 22 | I looked very puzzled and shook my head a lot and said No it ca n't be thkarni because this is thkarni ( no I did n't pull it out or anything — just pointed ) . |
| 23 | It ca n't be Friend . |
| 24 | ‘ And it ca n't be rats , ’ she said . |
| 25 | It ca n't be Magnus ! ’ |
| 26 | Ah , that 's the passing of a , erm , er , erm , something , no it ca n't be osmosis , cos it 's a part of membrane . |
| 27 | Belinda no it ca n't be Belinda , that 's er |
| 28 | It ca n't be Rachel , it wo n't be Jancey , and if it 's Victor I 'm not at home . |
| 29 | ‘ It ca n't be Signor Diomede — he 's far too young . ’ |
| 30 | Then not ungently , ‘ I ought to tell you , they did talk to me about him , it ca n't be news to you what they are saying , that Michel has run off with your mother and that he wants to marry her . |