Example sentences of "you [verb] you can [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought you mean you ca n't dance about the Washington and nowhere else . |
| 2 | You mean you ca n't see it to put round the corner here like this ? |
| 3 | ‘ You mean you ca n't accept any more of his money ? ’ |
| 4 | When we pointed the ending out to them , some said " You mean you can sometimes tell what a chapter is about by looking at the end " and others said " 0 Lord , how many times have I been told ! " |
| 5 | ‘ How dare you think you can just barge into my property ! |
| 6 | You can you know you ca n't do it |
| 7 | Just been to stupid Nettos , do you know you ca n't cash a cheque ? |
| 8 | The reasoning behind that is that come from a lower class generally if you ca n't you know you ca n't go to a nursery school cos you have to pay for nursery school education in this country . |
| 9 | It goes quickly and then you realise you ca n't remember what you 've been thinking about . |
| 10 | You say you ca n't make anything of the photographs ? ’ |
| 11 | In order that I can make my recommendations realistic , how much do you feel you can comfortably invest on a monthly basis to protect your wife and family and make provision for your retirement ? |
| 12 | Oh well I 'll keep the insurance company er I w er we will send them a little note in that case , saying look , you know , this is the case , it appears to be an innocent lesion she 's just been finely checked over on the eighth of October , do you feel you can now proceed ? |
| 13 | ‘ However , if you imagine you can now buy them back I would advise you to forget all about it . |
| 14 | The could be if you pop yourself there , he sits there and she sits there , you 're asking him a question , he 's not sure , he looks at her , so if you look you ca n't see what you 're doing , you want to be able to maintain eye contact with them both , yeah , one of the effective ways , well they 're going to be aware of the layout of the living room , this is their , this is their stage . |
| 15 | Erm you , you did , you know , you did summarize with what you thought you , you 'd established erm you went through to , to get your second appointment Steve threw , you know , the objection in about sending it in the post and what have you erm er and , and you o you overcame that erm successfully but I think the other thing that , that with , with the ANNA it , it unless you get that authority the rest of it is meaningless because you know you ca n't go on and , and , well you can agree the needs but there 's no way that he 's , he 's gon na agree to do it now or when you go back or , or even perhaps agree on the amount . |
| 16 | But you know you ca n't tell people . |
| 17 | Once it 's down in black and white , you know you ca n't forget it so you can put it out of your mind until the next day . |
| 18 | You know you ca n't blame them I know it 's going against our policies and everything but we erm we 're not blind to the situation . |
| 19 | Because erm you know you ca n't manage people without some consideration for er for their , their views and how things affect them and so on . |
| 20 | You know you ca n't feel , you ca n't grab hold of light in your hand . |
| 21 | You know you ca n't love people , Lee , because they are frightened of life and I think they are quite right and should beware of everything , especially camp comedy , the Communists , erotic fiction and you . |
| 22 | They were prepared to compromise because they I 'm sure that you know you ca n't imagine them not being really but because they 're such erm they were outraged at this machine but they were prepared to give it a try but the way it was bulldozed through that once the machine was there there was no choice then and almost you know get going boys get more and more and more slate you know greed they felt the employer was being greedy at the expense of quality . |
| 23 | Shopping in the supermarket , you 're going around and looking and you know you ca n't have it , you have to leave it . |
| 24 | All these years you 've spent chasing after something you know you ca n't have . |
| 25 | ‘ You know you ca n't have me ! ’ she cried in distress . |
| 26 | That 's right , yeah , I mean , it 's alright them saying you want experience but how do you get it if you know you ca n't learn |
| 27 | It 's bad when you know you ca n't get underground . |
| 28 | so it 's erm the times have all changed now because of going somewhere different , but of course you 've got ta go out tonight , we 've got to , in fact we 've got to go out within the hour , it 's Steve 's mum 's birthday erm so tomorrow you know you ca n't get think and my brother turned up last night so you just ca n't , I have n't even packed his case yet . |
| 29 | So he said , you know you ca n't claim anything off the insurers or anything , so that 's all his money |
| 30 | You know you can easily spend three hundred pounds er doing that . |