Example sentences of "ca [not/n't] help " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Cousin Amy ca n't help being there . |
| 2 | It may be that I ca n't help , but … ’ |
| 3 | But when the time comes to leave , she ca n't help going in a showbiz way , negotiating the steps of the Ritz in her towering leopard-skin stilettos like she 's on the set of a Busby Berkeley musical . |
| 4 | He said , ‘ I ca n't help it . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You ca n't help but learn from people like Wayne Swinscoe and Frank Barlow and other great anglers who live in this area . |
| 7 | My previous car was a direct competitor to the Clio , namely the new Rover Metro in 1.4-litre guise , and I ca n't help making comparisons . |
| 8 | She 's encouraged him to cut his hair and lose weight , and still Andrew somehow ca n't help looking a little scruffy . |
| 9 | I ca n't help thinking things will only get worse when I have the baby . |
| 10 | I ca n't help asking myself if there 's blood and hair and brains in that sump , you know . |
| 11 | I try and keep a straight face , but I ca n't help grinning at myself . |
| 12 | I must n't get too excited , but I ca n't help it — I 'm going to be back home soon and everything 's going to be OK . |
| 13 | Noël Coward 's Cavalcade , for example , though Jack could see its merit , struck him as fundamentally cheap , ‘ a mere brutal assault on one 's emotions , using material which one ca n't help feeling intensely . |
| 14 | I do n't deliberately put my face in the sun — but you ca n't help picking up a slight tan from reflected sunlight , particularly if , like me , you swim a lot . |
| 15 | I ca n't help thinking about the past . ’ |
| 16 | But , nonetheless , I ca n't help but agree . ’ |
| 17 | For a man who always looks so morose when batting — ‘ I know I look a miserable sod out there , but I ca n't help it , ’ he once said — and whose captaincy had previously seemed rather ordinary , it was a revelation . |
| 18 | ‘ Ca n't help you I 'm afraid . |
| 19 | She ca n't help it . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I suppose she ca n't help it , ’ Alan , Jane 's neighbour , philosophised , ‘ it 's all a matter of how the genes , or the DNA or whatever it is , falls . |
| 21 | He says it 's my business — he ca n't help . |
| 22 | I know I ca n't help , but just to be there will make me feel I 'm fighting to get Liam back . |
| 23 | In me the need to talk is a primary impulse , and I ca n't help saying right off what comes to my tongue . |
| 24 | ‘ Ca n't help having a decent voice . |
| 25 | I ca n't help the clichés . |
| 26 | ‘ Ca n't help that . |
| 27 | ‘ Ca n't help that , sir . |
| 28 | Looking through her work you ca n't help but be impressed by the quality and her attention to detail — and I did just wonder if I was in the presence of someone who is going to be hailed the greatest canine painter of her era . |
| 29 | Presumably , he catches the scent of a bitch in season on the wind and ca n't help but follow it . |
| 30 | ‘ The reason I do what I do is because it 's something I ca n't help . |