Example sentences of "[Wh pn] ca [not/n't] keep " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scottish football is pockmarked with what the Everton and Scotland winger Pat Nevin once described as ‘ the ego in the boardroom , ’ that irrepressible businessman in the size 48 club blazer who ca n't keep his fingers out of football . |
| 2 | Popular culture gives us plenty of female verbal incontinence ( cf the Andy Capp joke : ‘ when two wives get together , who has the last word ? ’ ) and illogical women who ca n't keep to the point ( as a character in the soap opera Coronation Street comments , ‘ you might as well try to knit fog as follow what 's in a woman 's mind ’ ) . |
| 3 | Men who ca n't keep their minds on their job , or their hands to themselves . ’ |
| 4 | I could n't possibly allow my wife to work for men who ca n't keep their minds on the job and their hands to themselves . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've got a dozy scouse striker who ca n't keep off the pies . |
| 6 | The Presley fans who ca n't keep away . |
| 7 | The recession may be hurting many businesses , but there 's one craftsman who ca n't keep up with demand . |