Example sentences of "[that] [pron] could not just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well there was always the parlour , you must have the parlour and er you , you had two living rooms and the one was the parlour and there was a cellar underneath the parlour and er the stairs used to come in from the back and go up , up the stairs over the entrance to the cellar but the stairs used to run up there underneath the stairs was the entrance to the cellar , there was a door , so that you could n't just walk down the cellar without opening the door you see , but apart from that there was er there was just the two , two bedrooms . |
| 2 | You know his father had started the company and the men , the older men in the quarry had been there from day one with him , you know from when they were producing next to nothing to being quite a profitable concern , and he realized the value of these men , and that you could n't just say , oh because they disagree with you just well , down the road pal . |
| 3 | Just the hint of a vengeful smile accompanied the massage that we could n't just walk off with that there dog — we 'd have to take him to the parcels office and sign for him . |
| 4 | But she heard herself saying , still in shrewish style , that on the contrary there was n't any time in the morning , that she had to go to a psychoanalytical conference in the Metropole Hotel with a bunch of Japanese in the morning , that she wanted to talk now , that he could n't just announce that he wanted to get divorced and then decide he was too tired to talk about it . |
| 5 | Something about them made him feel deeply afraid , but he knew that he could n't just stand there . |