Example sentences of "[pron] ca [adv] have [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Why can I , er I ca n't have hiccup ?
2 I ca n't have mayhem round my premises . ’
3 I ca n't have marmalade .
4 And if I ca n't have happiness , I want pleasure , even if it 's wrong . ’
5 I ca n't have lemonade so
6 The theme of his unhappiness was that ‘ I ca n't have continuity , and I need continuity for my work ’ .
7 My dad says I ca n't have sweets because I had to have some teeth out .
8 You seem like a respectable sort of a lady , really , but I ca n't have people laughing like that and screaming and abusing in my pub .
9 I ca n't have people ask me where my husband is .
10 Well , if I ca n't have Heathcliff as my friend , if Edgar is going to be mean and jealous , I 'll try to break both their hearts by breaking my own .
11 You ca n't have Amy 's .
12 Well I mean you ca n't have rules without a police force , can you , and since there 's no poets ' union from which you could be expelled , clearly whether there are any rules depends entirely on the poets themselves and their readers , and everybody knows that until about the end of the nineteenth century almost all poetry was written in regular metre and regular patterns and , except for blank verse , in regular rhyme , and that this is no longer so and now you would either be deliberately old fashioned or you would have some special purpose , I think , if you wrote your poems in traditional rhyming schemes .
13 I think for those of you who do n't live here , if you fancy a hot dog , you ca n't have onions with it if you buy it in the city centre , because the smell of cooking onions is banned .
14 You ca n't have ups all the time in football , there has to be a down side as well , although three defeats in a row is hard to take .
15 Yes I think it 's perhaps worth making the point erm to Rosemary that although , as you say , i it 's six feet high , that it does n't spread all that wide and it 's , it 's a mistake in a small garden to think that you ca n't have things that are on the tall side .
16 You ca n't have women there .
17 Well , I still believe in and I do n't pushed around and say , no you ca n't have money , no you ca n't get insured , and so that means others .
18 came back and said well you ca n't have chicken cos they only they do n't do chicken and er
19 You ca n't have law and order without lawlessness and disorder , just as you ca n't have light without darkness .
20 ‘ Without trust you ca n't have friends . ’
21 The theatres were closed — you ca n't have plays when a queen is dying — and we were all at Henry Condell 's house .
22 Yeah , because you ca n't have trial and error without a lot of practice .
23 he said , you ca n't have Thunderbirds and , and he said no you could n't he said
24 And if it 's freestanding then you ca n't have coalescence , acceptable or otherwise surely , can you .
25 Yeah I know , it 's two years , but it 's still the seating you ca n't have seating can you .
26 It 's in there because you ca n't have executive style cabinet government in local government unless you pay executive councillors executive salaries , it 's got nothing to do with the idea of you getting thirty five pounds rather than thirty three if we stay here all day erm I would just , I 'm really wisely advised to make one point er Mr er was c wondering why this did n't have majority support actually most of it did I think Mr will confirm that he and his colleagues were happy to support all of the proposed responses from A to J on page thirty and thirty one but were not happy with response B and I would like to er that erm that er when our responses do go forward it is made clear that apart from little paragraph B there was all party support because I really feel that our local authority associates need to know that and erm I hope that will be little B was er a piece that erm certainly I and my colleagues supported er , rather .
27 Just because it 's not warm it does n't mean you ca n't have custard with it .
28 You ca n't have drama which does n't refer to other curriculum areas .
29 IF YOU ca n't have Mr Major at your election night party then there is always the next best thing : Mrs Thatcher .
30 Sorry you ca n't have children .
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