Example sentences of "can not [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether some of the more , shall I say , advanced judgments of the day will concur is something I ca n't guess at , but if you want to try and publish , go ahead and good luck to you . |
| 2 | She ca n't talk at the moment . |
| 3 | Ca n't wear at work . |
| 4 | The police say they ca n't comment at this stage . |
| 5 | If you ca n't launder at once , try interim measures : sprinkle talc on fresh , greasy stains ; scatter salt on coffee , fruit , wine and beetroot , to absorb colour and moisture ( not on carpets ) ; rinse nongreasy stains with cold water . |
| 6 | Right , Moxon , Metcalfe , Carrick , good old Arnie of course … er , that stocky lad who does n't move his feet properly … um , let me see now : um , oh yes , that fellow who keeps getting backache , and then that off-breaker who ca n't turn it , and that so-called seamer with the funny hairstyle who just ca n't bowl at all … |
| 7 | The Ex-Wives returns to the comic vein of some of her earlier writing : ‘ I wanted to entertain myself , I lay on the floor on my stomach , scribbling away and laughing — well , if I ca n't laugh at my own jokes , who else can ? ’ |
| 8 | Well , it 's a sad thing if you ca n't laugh at yourself is n't it , eh ? |
| 9 | Defensive kingpins Redmond and Pointon ca n't arrive at Boundary Park a moment too soon after last night 's embarrassing 4–2 friendly defeat at Stockport . |
| 10 | However , remember that in working with check lists it is n't crucial , to start with , if you ca n't arrive at an exact technical phonetic description straight off — as long as you can distinguish between same and different you can still make progress . |
| 11 | With something so idiosyncratic there are things it ca n't do at all well , and others it can perform superbly . |
| 12 | ‘ I know it all sounds good , ’ she says , ‘ but what I want most of all is to spend more time with my little girl — and that 's the one thing I ca n't do at the moment . ’ |
| 13 | and then pick her mother up cos she lives in Creep as well , she ca n't stay at her mother 's house cos she 's just |
| 14 | You ca n't move at more than about fifteen miles an hour maximum down Hurst Road anyway can you ? |
| 15 | " You 've been lovely and I 'm leading you on but I ca n't deliver at the moment . |
| 16 | What price the ‘ efficiency savings ’ made by day-surgery and early discharge when the patient leaves hospital with barely controlled pain and becomes infected , or simply ca n't cope at home and requires re-admission ? |
| 17 | I ca n't cope at all without a tin-opener — I 'm really hopeless — and of course it 's too late to start at my age . |
| 18 | Sufferers from Alzheimers Disease ca n't cope at home . |
| 19 | You ca n't stand at the front door and say no you ca n't come in at all apart from its being completely irrational erm the point would be that , because I have an obligation to carry out this work , I have a right to the means to fulfil that obligation . |
| 20 | ‘ You ca n't grow at 50% to 60% compound year-on-year [ as they are doing ] , ’ Mr Wood said . |
| 21 | ‘ I ca n't walk at all . |
| 22 | Huh , you ca n't complain at that can you ? |
| 23 | But you ca n't dance at all cos you 're just so packed are n't you ? |
| 24 | ‘ I ca n't sleep at night because I 'm worried : both about getting behind with my work , and about bouncing cheques , ’ he said . |
| 25 | I ca n't sleep at nights from thinking of those dreadful things you describe . |
| 26 | It 's maddening — like voices in a dream , I ca n't sleep at night , they taunt me ’ |
| 27 | I ca n't sleep at night for that baby crying , I ca n't breathe in the daytime for that stench of tallow coming out of their back door — and one of his customers brushed me into the dusty street the other day … |
| 28 | It 's not all fun — sometimes I ca n't sleep at night for worrying . ’ |
| 29 | Maybe someone will provide a 24-hour 0898 number which we can dial when we ca n't sleep at night for thinking about the copy of Milan Kundera 's Immortality lying untouched on the bedside table . |
| 30 | It 's , I ca n't sleep at night . |