Example sentences of "ca not [verb] i [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know those hangovers where you ca n't spell I 'm or you 're , let alone sorry or again ? |
| 2 | It 's just something that we ca n't do I 'm afraid so so we 're on five now |
| 3 | ‘ Well , you ca n't complain I 'm not honest , ’ Geoffrey was saying , his good humour restored by the cigarette which was now polluting the night air . |
| 4 | No because you 're erm not si you 're seventeen so you ca n't sing I 'm sixteen going on seventeen . |
| 5 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 6 | So you ca n't see me is that it ? |
| 7 | Er I ca n't remember I was n't with them but we , we were in a spot and erm some of the tanks were away down there and some were up here and we , the next move we went to . |
| 8 | Well I 've left that on because I ca n't guarantee I 'm gon na get me channel zero but |
| 9 | Asked about the four-hour operation , he smiled and replied : ‘ I ca n't say I 'm looking forward to it , but it 's essential , so it has to be done . |
| 10 | Mr Souness , who arrived at a Manchester hospital offering the comment : ‘ I ca n't say I 'm looking forward to it but it is essential so it has to be done , ’ broke the news to his players on the way back from Sunday 's semi-final which Liverpool rescued late in extra time through Ronnie Whelan . |
| 11 | ‘ Ca n't say I 'm very favourably impressed by his establishment . ’ |
| 12 | I ca n't say I 'm doing a Page-type thing in the studio , but he was someone who was able to make very soulful records , and that was something that generated excitement in me at the time . |
| 13 | I am sure it adds an extra frisson , but I ca n't say I 'm keen to try it . |
| 14 | Or at least , some of you may have been ; I contrived to stay in the departure lounge for all these Angst -ridden travelogues , and I ca n't say I 'm busting a gut to catch up with any of them . |
| 15 | The only reality of the event had been her mother 's reaction , which was silent , grim , and grudging to the last ; not a tear did she shed , and after the funeral , as she turned away from the graveside and started to walk slowly through the cemetery mud she set her mouth in that prophetic way , and straightened her thick body , and then , as she passed a gravestone announcing that death is but a separation , she opened her mouth and said , " Well , he 's gone , and I ca n't say I 'm sorry . " |
| 16 | ‘ I ca n't say I 'm surprised , ’ said Ivan . |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't say I 'm surprised . |
| 18 | Well , I ca n't say I 'm particularly surprised . |
| 19 | I ca n't say I 'm enchanted with this sugary scene . |
| 20 | I ca n't say I 'm surprised . |
| 21 | ‘ Ca n't say I 'm too awfully keen on this idea of going for the enemy pilot , ’ Blunt said . |
| 22 | ‘ I ca n't say I 'm exactly happy , ’ she replied . |
| 23 | As he swore and released her , she informed him angrily , ‘ I ca n't say I 'm sorry they 've taken your boat . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But I still ca n't say I 'm grateful for his behaviour regarding Silvia . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ And I ca n't say I 'm looking forward to tomorrow , either . |
| 26 | ‘ Ca n't say I 'm sorry . |
| 27 | ‘ I ca n't say I 'm unaware of rumours and difficulties , ’ he continued , ‘ but I do n't know more than that . ’ |
| 28 | I ca n't say I 'm looking forward to going back to bloody coal central heating either . |
| 29 | I ca n't say I 'm bothered . |
| 30 | I erm ca n't say I 'm sorry . |