Example sentences of "ca [not/n't] just [vb infin] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ You ca n't just damp these things down . ’ |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | I 'm sorry , Dad , but I ca n't just let this thing pass — sit back and pretend it has n't happened . |
| 5 | Because Neil plays very hard he produces a lot of power through the pickups , and he has recently realised that he ca n't just put any pickup with any EQ system , otherwise the signal from the bass simply overloads things … |