Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] [pers pn] just [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why could n't they just leave well alone and let pupils concentrate on the three Rs ? |
| 2 | Could n't they just ease up a little ? |
| 3 | ‘ Look , could n't we just go along to the pub and have a quiet drink and talk about fishing instead ? ’ he pleaded . |
| 4 | Could n't we just throw away our Filofaxes for one afternoon and live a little ? |
| 5 | I did n't think it would be a major operation — could n't we just rustle up something quickly ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Could n't you just drink occasionally when you need it — like at parties ? ’ |
| 7 | she could n't she just did n't smile every time like , she was it 's like , I think it 's something to do with , sounds like it 's something to do with the parents maybe . |
| 8 | Ca n't we just stay in and play ? |
| 9 | ‘ Then ca n't you just give in gracefully and save us all a lot of trouble ? ’ |
| 10 | Why ca n't you just stay home forever , daddy ? |
| 11 | It 's a glorious , peaceful summer day — why ca n't you just lie back like me and soak up some of those gorgeous golden rays ? ’ |
| 12 | Of course the answer is changing the myth would have made Moses Hebrew and not Egyptian , because if Moses had been the daughter of Pharaoh he would had to been Egyptian and that the Hebrews could n't tolerate because at a later stage their religion became strongly ethnic and racially divided , you really got to be born Jewish to be Jewish , so they could n't tolerate their , their founding fathers of not being anything but Jewish , so they altered it , they changed the records and they falsified the myth , but they left this glaring inconsistency in it , so the myth is no longer it 's er rewritten and this is one of the little bits of evidence and now of course erm if you do n't take psychoanalyst insights into the family romance seriously , that may not cut much ice for you , but if you erm appreciate the force of these unconscious stereotypes in creating this like this , it 's cert it 's a quite potent piece of evidence because you think well why should the , the Bible change the myth , why ca n't it just put up with the normal myth . |
| 13 | Wo n't you just sit down ! |
| 14 | So he wo n't you just do n't |