Example sentences of "ca [not/n't] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that , and I still ca n't get a mortgage . |
| 2 | The VAT returns for the last quarter are due in , and that big ( very profitable ) convention which took over the hotel for three weeks last year is imminent but you ca n't get at your data . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , she ca n't get off the island , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ Daddy would have loved to have come as I said , but he just ca n't get any time off at all at the moment . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , why not leave the keys with us and then if you ca n't get away , you can perhaps come back here — or if everything goes OK we 'll use it as a playroom or something . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Ca n't get a wink . ’ |
| 7 | For , she thinks , if privileged spoiled people like her ca n't get off their backsides and put their money where their mouth is … |
| 8 | Just thought you ought to know before you sell your soul ; you ca n't get it back . |
| 9 | If you ca n't get treated timber , soak it in a simple preservative-filled trough made of bricks covered by a heavy gauge polythene sheet . |
| 10 | No matter how much they eat of their current food , they just ca n't get enough energy from it . |
| 11 | If , after that , you ca n't get it to live amicably in a domestic situation , there is not much hope left , although Graham stressed he has had some success with temperament improvements by castrating the males . |
| 12 | He only knows that he needs air and ca n't get it ; a state evinced by his terminal boredom , and by single sovereign descriptive strokes like the fact that his eyes are ‘ a little too blue ’ leaving the reader to imagine a pair of empty summer-sky souls , very bright and staring in pain . |
| 13 | She knows he ca n't , as does Porfiry who will soon rephrase her question in statement form : ‘ You ca n't get on without us . ’ |
| 14 | Crime and Punishment naturalizes the mystic brazenness of Sonya 's statement , as it does Porfiry 's ‘ You ca n't get on without us ' . |
| 15 | You ca n't get away with that any more . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ These deals have slowly been finding out that they just ca n't get financing , ’ said William Lefebvre , a market analyst with New York 's Advest group . |
| 17 | I find I ca n't get away from the job . |
| 18 | I ca n't get away from it . |
| 19 | The trouble was , although they 'd got me to do it — maybe because they knew it would save them money , or maybe because you ca n't get that kind of work done by your usual process shop — I did n't know how to do colour separations . |
| 20 | You ca n't get many into London ! |
| 21 | We ca n't get you better on our own . ’ |
| 22 | Mind you , I 've been keeping up the ice dance so all the canals are frozen and he ca n't get a match to fish , ’ joked Dave , who runs Midlands Angling Products . |
| 23 | You ca n't get 4wd handling and muscular performance at anything like the low prices these cars fetch on the used car market . |
| 24 | I spect she ca n't get another job or summat . |
| 25 | I ca n't get any words out . |
| 26 | I ai n't got a hankie or nothing so I try and lick it off with my tongue , but I ca n't get all of it . |
| 27 | But when I get to the other side I ca n't get onto the platform cos of this other gate . |
| 28 | I spect he 's fallen over and ca n't get up . |
| 29 | I want to shout out and stop her , but I ca n't get no sound out . |
| 30 | I ca n't get in . |