Example sentences of "one can [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose one ca n't blame the regular officer trained in peacetime for being orthodox and cautious . |
| 2 | One ca n't blame her for faults in the system . ’ |
| 3 | A sense of balance is lost : one ca n't tell what is important or what really matters . |
| 4 | ‘ One ca n't give cast-iron guarantees , just as you ca n't give me guarantees about my safety if I was to go to Birmingham , ’ Mr Thomas replied . |
| 5 | Of course , one ca n't hold it against him . |
| 6 | It 's it makes it so easy that the staff , one ca n't dress any better than the other . |
| 7 | One ca n't avoid them all . |
| 8 | ’ One ca n't avoid them all , ’ she often said . |
| 9 | A hundred years ago a ‘ piss-maker ’ was a great drinker ; to ‘ piss one 's tallow ’ meant to sweat ; a ‘ vinegar-pisser ’ was a miser ; to ‘ piss out of a dozen holes ’ was to have syphilis ; and to ‘ piss when one ca n't whistle ’ was to be hanged . |
| 10 | But I suppose one ca n't do things like that . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | I 've tried choosing one ca n't decide what I want , that 's my trouble ! |
| 13 | They discover things that because they have a power for good have an equal power for bad — one ca n't exist without the other — and then say , ‘ Here it is , do what you like with it . |
| 14 | I do n't feel up to coming and looking for you and it 's quite worrying alone up here when one ca n't move around . |
| 15 | Mais je me dis , des enfants c'est des enfants , on peut pas les faire penser comme des adultes , on peut pas — ‘ I tell myself , children are children ; one ca n't make them think like adults — one just ca n't ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It 's such a pity , ’ she gabbled on , ‘ one ca n't go out and buy a new husband or wife the next day , like you do with puppies or kittens . |
| 17 | ‘ One ca n't go writing letters to the papers , like you . |
| 18 | And I think that the alternative of the new settlement is by far the best solution , provided it is mixed with some peripheral development , one ca n't go into a position where there is all peripheral development or all new settlement , it has to be in perfect balance , because some needs can not of course be met by the new settlement . |
| 19 | And you know they ca n't go , this one ca n't go earlier than that one because we 've got the sequence and so if we got through these steps , I think that those steps are the same steps that we go through on any project . |
| 20 | ‘ One ca n't think of everything . |
| 21 | Well , of course , it is inevitable that one thinks of it from that angle from the way one has been brought up but actually one ca n't think of anything more barbaric than the Crucifixion and that way of killing somebody . |
| 22 | try as one might , one ca n't change the group , but , but clearly these are not th the examples that Freud chooses are really big groups where the kind of factors he 's talking about comes through very clearly because y y you can not explain what happens in the Catholic Church or an army . |
| 23 | I 'm very much afraid one ca n't last the night , and I 've ugly doubts about another . |
| 24 | One ca n't choose one 's times , you see . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Look at this , Sal ’ , he would say , ‘ this one ca n't sink , even if it 's broken in half ! ’ |
| 26 | Piano clusters , multi-divided strings , glissandi in harps , in brass , in timpani , semi-aleatoric sections , players breathing through wind instruments : one ca n't list them all , but they 're packed with bewildering rapidity and truly remarkable skill into a comparatively small structural space . |
| 27 | Many of these have survived , but the quality is so poor that one ca n't get much from them . |
| 28 | She brings home everything except potatoes and anyone who says that one ca n't get fresh vegetables in London must do her shopping by telephone , she is convinced . |
| 29 | ‘ One ca n't get rid of the emotion , one ca n't get rid of the sorrow that this has happened . |
| 30 | ‘ One ca n't get rid of the emotion , one ca n't get rid of the sorrow that this has happened . |