Example sentences of "ca [not/n't] afford " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ca n't afford a place like that . |
| 2 | I 've only eight working years left now and with all my savings gone , I simply ca n't afford to work for nothing . |
| 3 | Look at all this new technology there is around now , and then tell me we ca n't afford to give everyone a proper home . |
| 4 | But I ca n't afford it . |
| 5 | ‘ Now the Uridians ca n't afford to produce enough marioc for the government there to keep the Furus sweet . ’ |
| 6 | A very young man has shot himself and ‘ we ’ ride off in an inquisitive Gadarene ‘ cavalcade ’ ( ‘ our ladies had never seen a suicide ’ ) to view the corpse ; ‘ everything 's so boring ’ — recall Marya Lebyadkin 's words — ‘ one ca n't afford to be squeamish about one 's amusements so long as they are fun ’ ; and Lyamshin , the man who gets himself asked to parties to mimic women in labour , new-born babies , and peasants in the confessional , steals a bunch of grapes from the room of death . |
| 7 | If a man ca n't afford to go by automobile , and if he is content with eating and architecture , the world 's best ( as I have known it ) is afoot from Poitiers , from Brives , from Perigord or Limoges . |
| 8 | If you ca n't afford them , you will need to do both jobs . |
| 9 | The manager probably ca n't afford to get there . |
| 10 | There is nothing worse than playing a bass guitar — without an amp because you ca n't afford one yet — all on your jack up in your bedroom . |
| 11 | The government 's early arguments that ‘ we ca n't afford it ’ are less persuasive with the budget surplus accumulated in 1987 and 1988 and claims that tax cuts are better than greater state spending on social and health services have found fewer takers among the public ( see below p. 297 ) . |
| 12 | You ca n't afford the service industries unless you 've got a good manufacturing base . |
| 13 | The pay in laundries is very poor , they ca n't afford to pay more , that is what they say . |
| 14 | ‘ Not having any money is a very good formula for decorating , ’ Tim says , ‘ because you ca n't afford to make mistakes . ’ |
| 15 | Existing on a small pension , Doris ca n't afford a fridge and has to buy fresh food nearly every day . |
| 16 | It 's a sophisticated kind of machine and , like a machine , you ca n't afford to let it get rusty or it 'll seize up . ’ |
| 17 | Ca n't afford designer clothes ? |
| 18 | I do n't want to be ‘ kept ’ by him , so if I ca n't afford to go out we just stay in and read together or just watch television . |
| 19 | Betty Jackson may well be a designer whose clothes you admire but whose price tags you ca n't afford . |
| 20 | But nobody has their fridges repaired any more , they ca n't afford it . |
| 21 | But nobody has their fridges repaired any more , they ca n't afford it . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've had to be very , very careful and say ‘ you ca n't afford it ’ . ’ |
| 23 | I would love to have a chauffeured Cadillac but I ca n't afford it . ’ |
| 24 | They just ca n't afford it . |
| 25 | As one suburban employer in Chicago , whose staff deal with clients in the office , comments : ‘ I just ca n't afford to take on somebody who says the plural of ‘ woman ’ is ‘ womans ’ . ’ |
| 26 | I 've told you , we ca n't afford a penny more than the asking price . ’ |
| 27 | Because I said to myself , even if you ca n't afford no frock , ca n't afford no party , ca n't afford no bouquet , at least you can have a new hat . ’ |
| 28 | Because I said to myself , even if you ca n't afford no frock , ca n't afford no party , ca n't afford no bouquet , at least you can have a new hat . ’ |
| 29 | Because I said to myself , even if you ca n't afford no frock , ca n't afford no party , ca n't afford no bouquet , at least you can have a new hat . ’ |
| 30 | What do you do if you want a 250hp tractor but ca n't afford new and do n't want second-hand ? |