Example sentences of "can not [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just ca n't somehow seem to … to take it all in , ’ she gasped , the magnitude of the disastrous tragedy suddenly beginning to penetrate her stunned mind . |
| 2 | This is great news because everyone knows there are lots of things one can do to animals in the name of medical progress that one ca n't ethically do to people . |
| 3 | It was in some figure you ca n't even relate to . |
| 4 | I mean they ca n't even go to the shops sometimes and they 're not safe . |
| 5 | ‘ It grieves me think that these drivers , sometimes as many as 60 a week , have to pay to spend the night in this car park but ca n't even go to the loo , ’ she said . |
| 6 | I mean you ca n't , you ca n't go any , I mean you ca n't even go to the Bridge for er , erm , a meal under a fiver so |
| 7 | ‘ I hear things are so bad between the prince and princess , they ca n't even bear to be in the same room as one another , ’ said an estate worker . |
| 8 | seven thousand seven tho , seven now I ca n't even stretch to ! |
| 9 | I might just as well pack up and go if you ca n't even listen to things reasonably ! ’ |
| 10 | He writes in that same letter ‘ I ca n't hate anything ’ , and he admits he ca n't even own to ‘ despair ’ . |
| 11 | You ca n't even superimpose to that extent cos they 're slightly different ca n't even superimpose that my fingers ca n't superimpose cos they 're slightly different . |
| 12 | Cos you ca n't just write to someone , you have to want to write to them really . |
| 13 | Well the tom tiddlers of British political life I suppose write their memoirs for a couple of reasons because they ca n't ever admit to themselves they are tom tiddlers . |
| 14 | Yeah , she ca n't obviously talk to her husband about it because George is her ex-husband and he |
| 15 | Ca n't quite rise to that . |
| 16 | The point is Mr Chairman , some of us ca n't now get to other appointments we 've got to make phone calls . |
| 17 | stop worrying about you know , losing any try and put a couple of pounds on if you ca n't then come to us and we 'll find out what 's wrong |
| 18 | You ca n't really dance to it but you can stomp to it . |
| 19 | But , if they give up , they ca n't really contribute to the better quality of society . |
| 20 | I suppose my point is that if things are to get better ( or should I say keep getting better ) then we ca n't really look to the likes of Mel to come back . |
| 21 | I think the problem with a clear remit I ca n't really come to terms with that , precisely , competitive . |
| 22 | ‘ I ca n't really afford to , but what the hell ! ’ |
| 23 | With this particular letter I can not say why he chose not to , but he receives so many letters that he can not physically respond to all of them . ’ |
| 24 | With this particular letter I can not say why he chose not to , but he receives so many letters that he can not physically respond to all of them . ’ |
| 25 | We can not simply appeal to ‘ reality ’ and ‘ truth , as Miller and Swift do ; we can not root out prejudice by fiat nor make sexism disappear just by exposing it ; we have even less power to control what people say or mean than the prescriptivist defenders of sexist convention . |
| 26 | You can not simply propose to me with no more reason than the discovery that I happen to sleep with a woman and expect an instant answer . |
| 27 | Whereas the authentic socialist realist writer , by virtue of his/her ideological position , is able to " describe the forces working towards socialism from the inside " , the critical realist , although potentially capable in Lukacs 's terms of " grasping the new realities of the old order and of the old consciousness in their actual novelty and not as elements of disintegration of decay " can not ultimately accede to a socialist revelation of the world , trammelled as he/she is by vestiges of bourgeois ideology . |
| 28 | ‘ Perhaps I can rely upon the Merkuts , for they can not yet aspire to the throne . |
| 29 | You can not not react to Dorothy Heathcote . |
| 30 | ‘ If you act as a rubber stamp you can not also expect to be taken seriously as a watchdog . ’ |