Example sentences of "you ca n't [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You ca n't honestly believe that ! ’ he murmured in a low , hard voice . |
| 2 | Goodness me , are you both so young that you ca n't even share any thing ? |
| 3 | So you ca n't even say that . |
| 4 | All I ask of you is to make one phone call to firm up a social event , and you ca n't even get that together ! ’ |
| 5 | Well I was gon na ask you if you knew any girls , I mean for seven pound fifty you ca n't go wrong , you ca n't even get that in town with a hat |
| 6 | ‘ You ca n't even ask that without being obnoxious , ’ she spluttered . |
| 7 | You 've got to think about something , thinking is very hard , you ca n't just sit all day and do it , even religious solitaries read and say prayers , when the human mind goes beyond anything perceivable there 's no proof any more . |
| 8 | I do n't mind that , but you ca n't just have that . |
| 9 | ‘ You ca n't just have that for breakfast , dear . ’ |
| 10 | I 'll have a look , but I 've had him doing actual words , like first words er , you know erm , Ben and large and in and out and just the , the easy words and Luke and his own name , so he is already got the idea that when you write a letter you ca n't just write any letter , you 've got to make letters say something either as erm , as an alphabet or in the form of words , so of course she says to , would you all like to write me a sentence , well he 's already passed that stage , he thinks himself well I ca n't write a sentence , what he knows as a sentence consists of words that make sense , so they 're all sitting there going a N , N , N , Q , R , S , N , T , T , and they 're saying a sentence like I went to the shops with my nanny , well Alex has already passed that stage , he knows that that is n't sensible , so he must of turned to her and he said , I ca n't write like that , my mummy will shout at me |
| 11 | ‘ You ca n't just damp these things down . ’ |
| 12 | If you ca n't easily remember this , just close your eyes for a moment and recall a time when you felt really well . |
| 13 | But it , you ca n't then put that information together with other information because they 're actually telling us different things , if you see what I mean ? |
| 14 | You ca n't possibly do this job , ’ but his cases were always brought to a conclusion in the minimum time and , more importantly , with the minimum expense . |
| 15 | ‘ You ca n't possibly do more than an hour , not after a full day 's rehearsal . |
| 16 | I 'm sure it 'll cost more than a quid but seeing as you ca n't like get more than a mile long piece anyway so |
| 17 | You ca n't always do that . |
| 18 | On scheduled passages , of course , you ca n't always do this , but Mr. Andrew and his father before him knew the trade so well that they generally managed it . |
| 19 | There 's only half the class so you ca n't really throw many eggs and rotten tomatoes and things can you ? |
| 20 | I think one person who is in their thirty or forties or two people so , you know you ca n't really quantify that very easily . |
| 21 | You ca n't really mean that . ’ |
| 22 | And er you ca n't really do much because of the stone walls and there 's too much window and too much noise , and you get quite a few insects in them , and they 're just generally not very nice at all . |
| 23 | So I mean erm I was going to say put money on the Grand National , but you ca n't really do that can you ? |
| 24 | You ca n't really do that though |
| 25 | Erm , the difficulty is that you ca n't really do that in work situations . |
| 26 | It 's a trick you fall back on if you ca n't really do any original thinking — you devise a new research procedure to ‘ confirm ’ an already established theory . |
| 27 | But you ca n't really say that . |
| 28 | But after a few years of this , you ca n't really see any attraction in it , except the security , of course . |
| 29 | No I do n't think they will but you ca n't really believe all that you read in a newspaper can you ? |
| 30 | You ca n't really have that and these plates on that shelf . |