Example sentences of "[pers pn] can not do a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't do a thing with my carrots |
| 2 | I have to have the full eight hours or I ca n't do a thing the next morning , not a single thing . |
| 3 | Q My son is nine and I can honestly say I ca n't do a thing with him . |
| 4 | ‘ I ca n't do a riding turn , darling , ’ said his wife . |
| 5 | I 'd love to be back in Bishop Auckland just now , if only for the gossip , but I ca n't do a day 's canvassing and sometimes feel a bit of a passenger . |
| 6 | Why ca n't they give us I mean Christ I ca n't do a up there |
| 7 | See it might have reached temperature before I mean I do n't know , I ca n't do a |
| 8 | I 'm going to investigate , see if I ca n't do a conv I do n't think for one minute I will but it 's possible do a conversion er into erm the box type . |
| 9 | Sitting in my sitting in my crib with my dibby dibby dib mass up mash up crib , slap me in the face and I ca n't do a . |
| 10 | Come on man , I 've got Come with a nice young lady , intelligent In a cardboard box , informer lick your boom boom there lick your boom boom there with my dibby , dibby dob , police knock my door , they shout my crib , rough me up and I ca n't do a thing , pick up the when the telephone ring informer . |
| 11 | I can not do a good job from a chair on a table ! |
| 12 | You ca n't do a début again can you ? |
| 13 | I do n't think he minded , for once he said to me , ‘ You ca n't do a job like mine unless you 're fascinated by it ’ , and I was n't . |
| 14 | if you ca n't do a lot more work . |
| 15 | When I left school I would n't go on with me dad at first , I said I wanted to play football and me dad did n't want me to play football and he said you ca n't do a milkround and play football . |
| 16 | And you ca n't do a thing . |
| 17 | but Martin you ca n't do a song about doggy-dos . |
| 18 | You ca n't do a green all that |
| 19 | There 's a sense in which editors are very good at deciding what headlines are , and there 's , there 's a sense which you ca n't do a great deal about it . |
| 20 | She ca n't do a thing around the house . |
| 21 | She ca n't do a thing about it . ’ |
| 22 | While writing this article , I have realised that it is actually a very general problem-solving technique , of which there are many other instances in mathematics and science : If you can not do a problem , transform it to a problem that you can do and then transform the answer back to reach the solution to the original problem . |
| 23 | If we ca n't put a clamp on it , then we we ca n't do a clamp . |
| 24 | We 'd kill to have wash'n'wear hair , but we ca n't do a thing with our drooping rats ' tails . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ Admittedly we ca n't do a lot of big photo shoots and adventurous features which require the star 's co-operation . |
| 26 | Mr Fishbane is obsessed with sex and while I imagine he ca n't do a great deal about it any more , poor old boy , until he 's finished his breakfast he 's almost out of control if he spies an attractive girl . ’ |
| 27 | He ca n't do a thing . |
| 28 | Well he ca n't do a thing about it ! |