Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , when racism takes the form of violence , they ca n't fail to recognise it as an attack on themselves , and part of a value system they can not go along with . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , ’ Julia said with an expression on her face that he could not quite read , ‘ but the law is the law and one ca n't decide to apply it only to those whose motives and characters one dislikes . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's me mum , and I 'll try anything for me mum , and Lourdes is what she wants , and I 'm her only son , and I ca n't bear watching it . ’ |
| 4 | You can then wash the summer sheet regularly and the top when the outside gets do disgusting you ca n't bear to see it . |
| 5 | I ca n't bear to let it out of my hands — I shall have to carry it with me to my appointment at the Commission … |
| 6 | Maybe they just ca n't bear to contemplate it , or perhaps they 'll just be forced to wait . |
| 7 | No I ca n't stand to watch it . |
| 8 | These services of course have to be paid for and we do aim to keep the level of taxation as low as possible but of course we ca n't aim to bring it down as far as conservatives would want because we need , we in the city need , to spend money on things like the education fund without which it becomes a city less worth living in . |
| 9 | Erm , you ca n't choose to make it paid up , it has to be paid up because the premiums are n't being paid . |
| 10 | I just ca n't s-seem to help it , ’ she wept , unable to staunch the heavy flow of tears streaming down her pale cheeks . |
| 11 | Well you ca n't stop paying it now . |
| 12 | You ca n't expect to do it properly without ‘ staying current ’ . |
| 13 | You 've got a battle on your hands this week and , frankly , you ca n't expect to win it … ye ! |
| 14 | ‘ You ca n't expect to know it all on your first day . |
| 15 | White cell 007 nods : ‘ You ca n't help hearing it , the way he keeps on mooching about the house , hating everything and everyone . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't want to stand in your way , that 's why I said nothing but I ca n't help thinking it is closer to your measure . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't help thinking it must be huge to punch so big a hole in the star field . ’ |
| 18 | I ca n't help thinking it 'll be nicer now , when Mother comes back . ’ |
| 19 | I ca n't help thinking it had something to do with Angy 's murder , but we 'll never know now . |
| 20 | Now , I think there 's probably a very nice parallel here , I ca n't help thinking it was probably a bit better , must have been better organised in the Second World War , but there 's going to be a erm special exhibition here is n't there , on memories of change on Oxford in the Second World War , and of course there were a great many extra people there too . |
| 21 | It 's a world away from J. M. Barrie 's classic story — and you ca n't help feeling it could have been better if it had followed that more closely . |
| 22 | ‘ I ca n't help saying it strikes me as rather odd that you 've left it till now to start looking for her . ’ |
| 23 | You ca n't help doing it though can you ? |
| 24 | perhaps waiting for all the kids to school first perhaps ca n't see to do it in the dark |
| 25 | Probably , most people have been doing this for ages , but I ca n't remember seeing it , so if it helps anyone , great . |
| 26 | I ca n't remember seeing it this week but |
| 27 | I do n't I ca n't remember doing I ca n't remember taking it . |
| 28 | I ca n't remember unpacking it it 's not in the er in the ski bag . |
| 29 | See I never know whether they 're pulling , pulling a plonker or not you know , that 's the real , like I said I ca n't remember doing it , but , I would n't put it pass myself and I fucking get stupid , I do n't get aggressive or anything I just get stupid , you know , I do shit like that . |
| 30 | Do n't gallop through your speech as if you ca n't wait to finish it and get away . |