Example sentences of "[pers pn] ca [adv] do a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | I ca n't do a thing with my carrots |
3 | I have to have the full eight hours or I ca n't do a thing the next morning , not a single thing . |
4 | Q My son is nine and I can honestly say I ca n't do a thing with him . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | ‘ I ca n't do a riding turn , darling , ’ said his wife . |
7 | but Martin you ca n't do a song about doggy-dos . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | You ca n't do a début again can you ? |
10 | 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 . |
11 | if you ca n't do a lot more work . |
12 | And you ca n't do a thing . |
13 | She ca n't do a thing around the house . |
14 | She ca n't do a thing about it . ’ |
15 | We 'd kill to have wash'n'wear hair , but we ca n't do a thing with our drooping rats ' tails . |
16 | If we ca n't put a clamp on it , then we we ca n't do a clamp . |
17 | He said : ‘ Admittedly we ca n't do a lot of big photo shoots and adventurous features which require the star 's co-operation . |
18 | He ca n't do a thing . |
19 | Well he ca n't do a thing about it ! |