Example sentences of "she can [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless she crawled to the edge of the embankment — I suppose it 's possible , but she ca n't have walked to the spot in the first place . ’ |
| 2 | She dried her off well and said , ‘ She ca n't have two washes ’ . |
| 3 | She ca n't have said that . |
| 4 | She ca n't have felt very much . |
| 5 | ‘ She ca n't have been more than seventy , ’ Barbara said with a hint of anxiety ; she herself was in her middle-sixties . |
| 6 | The eldest one could n't have children , and quarrels with her husband , and has gone dotty because she ca n't have children , and wanders around in a very odd coat all the time . |
| 7 | ‘ She ca n't have gone far , ’ said Connon . |
| 8 | But she ca n't have spent all evening on the loo , can she ? ’ |
| 9 | Next day , at the mum-and-toddler group , your gentle , chatty child turns into a little monster : she spitefully destroys another child 's sandcastle , throws a tantrum when she ca n't have the toy she wants , or screams in terror if you so much as walk across the room away from her . |
| 10 | Always comes over for the hunting — do n't know why , for she ca n't have ridden a horse for centuries ! — and leads poor Woolacombe a dog 's life . ’ |
| 11 | Here , too , to call a woman ‘ barren ’ , or even ‘ childless ’ , implies that — whether she ca n't have a child or simply does n't want one — she is somehow wrong and unnatural . |
| 12 | I 'm sure she ca n't have remembered them all . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ She ca n't have Guy , so no one else should either ? ’ |
| 14 | Cos if she , if she ca n't have chocolates ask Zoe what she likes . |
| 15 | And , because she ca n't have children and er this was what , last June it all happened ? |
| 16 | No she ca n't have them , they 're too hard . |
| 17 | Oh she ca n't have two that 's . |
| 18 | Everybody 's coming out again apart from er bumps she ca n't have the bumps . |
| 19 | She ca n't have any . |
| 20 | No , she ca n't have anything . |
| 21 | The only , I reckon the only reason she 's upset about it is because she ca n't have him , that 's wh you know when you ca n't have something then you want it . |
| 22 | She can rarely have travelled , for example , more than fifteen miles from Brackley , Northamptonshire , where she lived for most of her twenty-four years . |
| 23 | The child asks for something and is told she can not have it . |
| 24 | In academic , exploratory research where the results are not to be analysed and presented in statistical fashion a research worker may feel that he or she can not have an assistant to help with interviews since the whole approach is very subjective and non-statistical . |
| 25 | Amanda Piper , 24 , said daughter Cherie craves cigarettes so much that she screams if she can not have one . |
| 26 | She can not have changed . |
| 27 | She can not have failed to be aware of the situation as the land reeked of the smells and both water and land were often strikingly coloured . |
| 28 | She has been told by the local hospital that she can not have an appointment until June 1993 . |
| 29 | Her doctor says she can not have another operation as it would kill her . |
| 30 | What she can also have , which might at first glance seen off-putting , is great expertise in some abstruse art or science , though this should never of course be an unpleasant one . |