Example sentences of "can not just " in BNC.
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| 1 | But of course you ca n't just go by character . ’ |
| 2 | A Napoleon is a non-person , a ‘ generalhuman ’ ; and although the word does n't appear in Crime and Punishment itself , the notebooks make the point that one ca n't just live ‘ the general life of humanity ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ You ca n't just dig a hole and bury them . |
| 4 | Even when told of the embassy 's closure , few seemed alarmed : ‘ Well , they ca n't just leave us here , and we 're not going back , so they 'll have to do something , ’ said one . |
| 5 | ‘ We ca n't just cut off our nose to spite our face , ’ he said . |
| 6 | I 'm not and I never have been a hippy , I ca n't just ‘ hang out ’ any more . |
| 7 | You ca n't just pull ideas out of the air . |
| 8 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 9 | I have brought them with me but I ca n't just keep them at home . |
| 10 | Rhys considers it unwise to attempt radically to alter taxes on large cars , as proposed by Labour : ‘ You ca n't just decimate the luxury car trade , ’ he says , ‘ Most big cars may well come from Germany but you have to consider how it would affect the dealer network . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But you ca n't just — ‘ |
| 12 | You ca n't just knock on the door and ask for him . |
| 13 | We ca n't just leave him there , watch him drown . ’ |
| 14 | But you ca n't just tell her what to wear . |
| 15 | However it ca n't just be bolted on to the tractor , and Mr Tomlinson had to spend further hours in the workshop matching it to the tractor 's backend and getting the gearing right . |
| 16 | I ca n't just remember now . |
| 17 | You ca n't just dig up a magnolia one July day and put it in the gap left by the camellia — it will die rather quickly . |
| 18 | You ca n't just sit here . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ SHe ca n't just have gone ! ’ she shouted in a deep , masculine voice , in response to her officers , discovery that no one had seen Crevecoeur since late afternoon , and certainly not in the act of leaving the building . |
| 20 | We ca n't just go haring off into the city like that . |
| 21 | You ca n't just go away and hope everything will fall into place . |
| 22 | ‘ A cold ca n't just disappear . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | You ca n't feel benevolent and sympathetic , you ca n't just want everything to be nice , as if Jack were a child , and as if I were a child . |
| 25 | ‘ But you must do something , you ca n't just take it . ’ |
| 26 | You ca n't just leave it up to the police , or to someone else — and ignoring it wo n't make it go away . |
| 27 | You need a philosophical position to do this , you ca n't just say ‘ I 'll write experimentally ’ , that does n't work . |
| 28 | He added : ‘ What I mean is , we ca n't just dump her , not now . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I ca n't just walk out on her . ’ |
| 30 | The point I 'm making is that you ca n't just interchange the words ‘ black ’ music and ‘ disco ’ music . |