Example sentences of "it can [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After all , it ca n't matter if someone who knows us sees us together at this late stage , Luke . |
| 2 | And wh what tends to happen is the dreams are , are , are repetitive , although they often vary in small details , and the idea is , or this was Freud 's , Freud 's idea , and basically it 's the same as his explanation of anxiety dreams , that , that what is happening here is that the mind has got a very disturbing latent content that it ca n't forget . |
| 3 | ‘ It ca n't go on like this . |
| 4 | You can see yourself it ca n't go on . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It ca n't go far , it 's no use to us as it is and we may be able to pick it up some other time . ’ |
| 6 | It ca n't go on for ever because characters such as the Fat Slags ( right ) can only go on so long before the joke starts to wear thin . |
| 7 | ‘ Now the other kneeling-down human has said , ‘ Well , whatever it is , it 's behind this panel and it ca n't go anywhere . ’ ‘ |
| 8 | But it ca n't go on forever . |
| 9 | She thought , It ca n't go on . |
| 10 | It ca n't go on like this ! |
| 11 | It ca n't go on for ever . ’ |
| 12 | I just feel it ca n't go on much longer . |
| 13 | I think the way it should be tackled is speak to about it , say that we still believe that y'know it ca n't go on forever obviously it ca n't go on forever because I think the longer it goes on the worse it 'll become in all honesty |
| 14 | I think the way it should be tackled is speak to about it , say that we still believe that y'know it ca n't go on forever obviously it ca n't go on forever because I think the longer it goes on the worse it 'll become in all honesty |
| 15 | No it ca n't go up there . |
| 16 | Okay it ca n't go any further with the two or with the three . |
| 17 | it might be better to use like just wait on the edge of like a or something like that the other groundhog just hangs out there , it ca n't go back down in its hole . |
| 18 | If it does n't work , always try R star 1 again , it ca n't go wrong . |
| 19 | And it ca n't eat Glace/1 Mints . |
| 20 | EUROPEAN PERSONAL COMPUTER MARKET GREW 19% — BUT IT CA N'T CONTINUE — DATAQUEST |
| 21 | This seemed to us to have a very high priority but it ca n't continue to have a high priority if we 're pushing against a closed door . |
| 22 | And it ca n't feed itself . |
| 23 | ‘ It ca n't erase the injustices in the world . |
| 24 | It ca n't last for ever . |
| 25 | We 've been brought up to know that it ca n't last and we 're deeply suspicious of what we disdainfully see as decadent ‘ beach bimbos ’ . |
| 26 | And at each instant of its happening , its bitter-sweet wonder is that you know it ca n't last . |
| 27 | But anyway ’ — she nodded her head briskly now — ‘ it ca n't last for ever . |
| 28 | Jungle Boy and City Girl reach for the stars but it ca n't last , can it ? |
| 29 | It has it ca n't stop growing . |
| 30 | But the RSPCA says a loophole in the law means it ca n't stop one of the worst offenders from owning animals , despite his appalling record . |