Example sentences of "i ca not [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told you about the pains , ’ — she is holding her stomach — ‘ and the thing I ca n't bear is this week the children have them too . ’ |
| 2 | I ca n't bear being dependent upon other people . |
| 3 | The previous year she had read about energy-efficient homes — ‘ being Australian , I ca n't bear being cold , ’ she says . |
| 4 | ‘ I ca n't bear being deserted . |
| 5 | The one thing I ca n't stand is cynicism . |
| 6 | For a band now irritated by most dance music — ‘ most of it 's cack , I hate going into bars where they 've got it blaring out from everywhere , you ca n't hear yourself think ’ — and uncomfortable with the accoutrements of clubbing — ‘ I ca n't stand being under strobes no more , do me head in , make me lose my balance ’ — it was inevitable the Mondays would rake up their rock roots , ‘ mature ’ their sound and make a major musical transition . |
| 7 | ‘ I ca n't stand being spied on , ’ she explains . |
| 8 | Erm and then I thought , now , what I ca n't do is I I ca n't do what we did last year a and really put a photograph and a des and a description of it . |
| 9 | But what I ca n't do is to look back and saying you 've been , you are like this now but |
| 10 | I tell you what I ca n't do is carve |
| 11 | The problem I ca n't leave is what do I do if Dickie just passes ? |
| 12 | ‘ I ca n't imagine being like that , when I 'm old . ’ |
| 13 | But I ca n't imagine being without her , so I do n't really regret it . " |
| 14 | I have to admit that after three years of using Q&A I have n't memorized all of the mainly function key-driven keyboard shortcuts , but those that I ca n't remember are easily brought back to mind with a tap of the F1 key which lists them . |
| 15 | Right so it 's very awkward erm really you just think , I ca n't remember is it I E , E I . |
| 16 | I ca n't remember being so unhappy — not ever . |
| 17 | Well , could do , what I ca n't forgive is that she was so spiteful to my daughter , she 's a sun shiny little sole and she 's so full of love for everybody she 's so generous |
| 18 | But very often I think tabloid journalism is interesting in terms of language because it 's very punchy it 's succinct because i i in some of our terms you might find people into a three minute reader and a thirty minute reader because in attention span and intellectual capacity are quite different but to actually condense something into meaningful short bursts , even if they are politically biased actually requires a certain amount of skill I would suspect the clarity index which I ca n't find is the process that I mentioned the other night where you take erm some people call it the fog index a correct me if I 'm wrong in my figures , but I think it 's a piece of something like two hundred or three hundred words you count the number of suc erm colons and full stops or is it only full stops ? |
| 19 | What I ca n't reconcile is what was the rich peasant . |
| 20 | saying , there 's someone sitting outside Sally 's , and old boy , that 's and I ca n't I ca n't resist is Nick there , is Jason there , is Brian there ? |
| 21 | Home-grown teenagers look at their parents and think , ‘ I ca n't have been produced by them ! |
| 22 | I ca n't have been there . ’ |
| 23 | Margaret Drabble 's novels were a success from the start ( this one was published in 1964 ) , so I ca n't have been the only new mother to feel she was speaking for me . |
| 24 | ‘ I ca n't have been making for Gullholm , though , can I ? ’ |
| 25 | I ca n't help being … . |
| 26 | It 's not the buying them that 's cunning , it 's just that I ca n't help being grateful ( I did n't actually say I was grateful , but I was n't sharp ) , it 's that he presents them so humbly , with such an air of please-don't-thank-me and I-deserve-it-all . |
| 27 | ‘ In the depths of my heart I ca n't help being convinced that my dear fellow-men , with a few exceptions , are worthless . ’ |
| 28 | I ca n't help being thankful I did n't have to cope with it . |
| 29 | I ca n't help being curly . |
| 30 | What I ca n't understand is who she thanks when she wants to be thankful , for example when her son was born . |