Example sentences of "i can n't [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ca n't disappoint the children , you know . |
| 2 | I ca n't smell the good ones . |
| 3 | ‘ Where is he ? ’ she said practically , and then , ‘ Oh , shoot , I ca n't send the boy ; he 's broken his arm today . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I ca n't open the door . |
| 5 | ‘ I ca n't open the gate with you standing there . ’ |
| 6 | I ca n't open the door of the canteen … |
| 7 | I ca n't cos I ca n't open the door . |
| 8 | I ca n't replace them , I ca n't rent out rooms and I ca n't pay the mortgage . |
| 9 | She said sometimes , of school , ‘ But I ca n't make the right conversation , ’ and it was true . |
| 10 | ‘ I want to keep playing well , and if I ca n't make the team then I want to be in a position to give myself a real chance in America in two years time . ’ |
| 11 | I ca n't make the East Mainland very well . |
| 12 | I 'm not , positively not going to mess things up by telling him I ca n't make the only date he has offered . |
| 13 | I ca n't make the appointment . |
| 14 | I ca n't make the appointment . |
| 15 | Oh I 'll do n't know I pastry , I ca n't do that , I can do the rest but I ca n't make the pastry . |
| 16 | I ca n't make the machine go any bloody quicker , well I can , but I so what 's the point in that come and have a look at it and then they said come back and do it when you on the skin , you know the skin bring it forward well it do n't go back , it just gets all tangled . |
| 17 | Yes , but I ca n't make the . |
| 18 | ‘ In very strong winds I ca n't prevent the sail from lifting me out of the water . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I ca n't reach the top . |
| 20 | And I 've managed to do up two of the buttons at the back , but I ca n't reach the top two . |
| 21 | But I ca n't reach the window by myself . |
| 22 | But I ca n't reach the pizzas . |
| 23 | I ca n't reach the big one . |
| 24 | I 'm sorry , I know you think I 'm old-fashioned , but I ca n't bear the thought of you not marrying in church — not having God 's blessing upon the pair of you . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I ca n't bear the thought of sitting here watching him . |
| 26 | I ca n't bear the suspense . " |
| 27 | I have so many indelible impressions of that day : of cutting a soldier 's clothes off his body with scissors as he screamed with pain ; of a young man seizing my hand with an iron grip as he groaned ‘ I 'm dying — I ca n't bear the pain ’ ; of a baby girl less than two years old just staring ahead as the blood soaked into her clothes ; of the terrible vacant look caused by shell-shock on the faces of teenage soldiers ; of the stench of human excrement , urine and blood as the nurses and nuns struggled to clean up the patients . |
| 28 | I ca n't bear the thought of Batty playing against Leeds . |
| 29 | " I do n't want to think of anything happening to Great-Aunt Alicia to begin with — and I ca n't bear the thought of selling Moor-lake . " |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't think any sentence would really be appropriate but I ca n't bear the thought that he is going to be out one day , and that day is going to be sooner than I thought . |