Example sentences of "ca [not/n't] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wo n't be offended if you ca n't make it . ’ |
| 2 | You ca n't make love at pistol point … her being filled with remorse , and she checked herself from flinging her arms round Lucy : steady , Jay , she told herself , we 're only seconds away from no , nay , never . |
| 3 | ‘ There can be no collapse in the property market because sellers have a real reluctance to sell if they ca n't make last year 's prices . |
| 4 | If you ca n't make this date , Star Trek V opens on 20 Oct . |
| 5 | If you ca n't make it to Plymouth , you can check out their own latest musical production , Buddy , which is playing in preview at London 's Victoria Place . |
| 6 | It was a coup d'etat. ’ -Margaret Thatcher ‘ As for the leaders of the former Alliance parties , I will say no more than this : they have never learned what every woman knows — that you ca n't make a souffle rise twice . ’ |
| 7 | Bands ca n't make it alone . |
| 8 | I ca n't make it , I 've got to go and see a mate . |
| 9 | Oh they ( the TUC ) talk — they make rules and regulations ; we ca n't make any hunger strike , we ca n't make any demonstration , we ca n't make any mass picket , ca n't do anything . |
| 10 | Oh they ( the TUC ) talk — they make rules and regulations ; we ca n't make any hunger strike , we ca n't make any demonstration , we ca n't make any mass picket , ca n't do anything . |
| 11 | Oh they ( the TUC ) talk — they make rules and regulations ; we ca n't make any hunger strike , we ca n't make any demonstration , we ca n't make any mass picket , ca n't do anything . |
| 12 | The lighting cameraman may have been going through a bad patch , or simply been driven crazy by the sort of director who ca n't make up their mind about anything . |
| 13 | ‘ Does n't the Prime Minister realise that she is the only person in this whole shameful episode that ca n't make the excuse that I was only obeying orders , because she was the person giving the orders — and the orders are tyrannical . ’ |
| 14 | No matter whether it 's the ‘ Yes ’ bank , the action bank , the thoroughbred bank , the listening bank , or the bank to which all points , you ca n't make a friend of your bank manager unless you 've got loadsamoney . |
| 15 | Then I had to come back — and into this — and do you know — ’ ( he leant towards her ) ‘ even now I close my eyes and think of her , otherwise I ca n't make love — ’ He was still living on that charmed island of experience in the past . |
| 16 | Alan ca n't make it . ’ |
| 17 | The Corporation ca n't make an exception in your case . ’ |
| 18 | You see , he ca n't make Bumface take you back . |
| 19 | He 'll be waiting at the station and we ca n't make it now . |
| 20 | ‘ If I ca n't make it , take Elinor . ’ |
| 21 | But then these bands do n't realise they ca n't make records as good as the Stones . |
| 22 | You ca n't make chemistry happen , you ca n't say : ‘ You and you are going to be so and so . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You ca n't make him . ’ |
| 24 | I ca n't make these decisions on my own , removed from the rest of BBC Radio ; but I have a clear idea of what Radio 3 is about . |
| 25 | ‘ Dagenham is going flat out , and we ca n't make enough diesel engines , ’ says Lawrence . |
| 26 | ‘ They ca n't make me go there . ’ |
| 27 | I ca n't make this out , Lex . |
| 28 | ‘ I ca n't make it for you . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I ca n't make it ! ’ she shouted . |
| 30 | ‘ I ca n't make you out . |