Example sentences of "[pron] mean you can not [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 I mean you ca n't paint till you
2 You know if this was my business , I would have budgeted for this amount of advertising to be ab I mean you ca n't sit it by getting at home er you ca n't get it by sitting at home .
3 Yeah you ca n't , I mean you ca n't sit there being an immature little
4 So I mean you ca n't talk , the problem with me is I I will always listen to the other person 's point of view as
5 Yes , I , I mean you ca n't carry all
6 I mean you ca n't compare it can you ?
7 I ca n't do much about that , I mean you ca n't go sticking in other people 's noses .
8 I mean you ca n't go to a pub without singing .
9 Yeah but how stupid can they be because I mean the less of you are you , I mean you ca n't serve as many as it 's , it 's stupid in n it ?
10 I mean you ca n't draw
11 I mean you ca n't tell a burglar
12 I mean you ca n't expect them to be quiet , just sit and do nothing all that time .
13 I mean you ca n't do that there is no correlation between you ca n't say that all the activists are extroverts cos are actually quite about the way they but they do like to have a go and it does n't say all the reflectors cos they 're sitting back and thinking and they 're actually quiet reflectors .
14 But also I mean you ca n't do without a .
15 cock up in , you know in Britain and it would just be the laughing stock , I mean you ca n't do that , you ca n't shelter everybody
16 erm yes , I mean you ca n't deny the fact that one should always try and work towards achieving higher standards and the comparisons between different hotels erm are obvious , because one personally one 's personal experience is bound to come into play .
17 I mean you ca n't guarantee that
18 I mean you ca n't claw the money the back if you get a bit short in five or ten years time .
19 Cos the staircase has got ta be lit , I mean you ca n't get
20 Well I mean you ca n't get it with fat , can you ?
21 I mean you ca n't put that settee here because it it blocks that door .
22 I mean you ca n't have .
23 I mean you ca n't have it both ways
24 You ca n't have , I mean you ca n't have all this stuff .
25 Well I mean you ca n't have rules without a police force , can you , and since there 's no poets ' union from which you could be expelled , clearly whether there are any rules depends entirely on the poets themselves and their readers , and everybody knows that until about the end of the nineteenth century almost all poetry was written in regular metre and regular patterns and , except for blank verse , in regular rhyme , and that this is no longer so and now you would either be deliberately old fashioned or you would have some special purpose , I think , if you wrote your poems in traditional rhyming schemes .
26 Yes well erm I mean you ca n't help being aware of past experiences .
27 I mean you ca n't see their face
28 I better walk on tip-toes to right well , you know now let's just give , you know , I mean you ca n't see Zane 's bum .
29 that political argument seems , I mean you ca n't win in this game can you ?
30 And they do n't really want to go on using you as a a sort of prop , because I mean you ca n't afford that because you 've got lots of other clients and you , you know really the aim is to try and get them back to self-sufficiency .
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