Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] just take " in BNC.

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1 It is i i I I we have a wide range of changes that would flow out from that so you could n't just take a change to Cornwall which would then create an oversized Devon seat , I quite accept that and we 've argued from the first that this would have to be part of the review as a whole .
2 I just went over there and said it was okay , th I 'd put in a letter and they still could n't just take it off .
3 As for that girl , if it was my father , he would n't just take you to the CRE , he would also give you a good thump .
4 I thought how , how can I swear an oath to god in all honestly if I 'm not sure there is one , I thought yeah blimming right , I mean , she would n't just take , say it so she obviously said , she obviously said the right theories
5 ‘ But you must do something , you ca n't just take it . ’
6 I mean , they ca n't just take your house away ! ’
7 Obviously you ca n't just take a vocal line from some traditional Japanese album and put it straight into a heavy metal song because it 's not going to work !
8 And these days you ca n't just take the speedometer out and fiddle the numbers back like you used to ten years ago .
9 ‘ I ca n't just take what I want , ’ he said thickly .
10 I ca n't just take it for nothing can I ?
11 or for any You ca n't just take it from any time ?
12 So erm and I , I ca n't just take a flexi-day because I 'm already , I 've already got leave to use .
13 There 's erm there 's always a tension for those of us who are parents , particularly those of us who erm send our children to the state schools , as to erm what 's in the best interests of our own particular individual child and what might be in the best interests of all the children in the area in which we live , and erm this vote was an invitation to think only , very selfishly , of what might be the situation for our children , and I 'm very glad that erm many parents in Banbury thought of children in general living in North Oxfordshire and erm realise that you ca n't just take one limb of an education service and send it off spinning into its own orbit and not expect the rest to suffer .
14 There are also pitfalls of training ; you ca n't just take someone on , on test and say ‘ you are on test on the motorway ’ , that there 's got to be training .
15 Thus , you can not just take any necessary action depending on the error and return to where you were because BBCBASIC(Z80) no longer knows where you were .
16 I mean when Rutherford did his experiments years and years ago he produced his planetary model of the nucleus , of the atom where the nucleus plays the role of the sun and the electrons play the role of the planets , and people said well why do n't they just spiral in an erm Rutherford had actually no answer to this , but the answer to this was produced by the Danish physicist Nils Bore , who said ‘ Well they do n't spiral in because erm electrons can not just take up any orbit , they can take up certain specified orbits which he called stationary states , and there is a lowest one of these , and when the electron gets down there it can not go any further .
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