Example sentences of "you [modal v] [not/n't] [vb infin] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should not take on a case if you or your firm has a conflict of interest . |
| 2 | However , you should not work out the entire mock interview beforehand or you will lose the element of spontaneity . |
| 3 | He did not as yet know all the details of how they had died , and what had gone before , but rumour had it that no great physical strength had been involved so that you could not rule out a woman as the killer . |
| 4 | At one stage in her career , it had seemed you could n't open up a rock paper or one of the tabloids without seeing her tumbling golden mane and her lazy catlike smile captured by one of the many photographers who seemed to dog her every step . |
| 5 | That 's what I meant about the meta-metal , if you took it back to metal you could n't make up a page like your upper and lower case with a big R , unless you spent three years chiselling and fitting the thing , but somehow it looks as if it ought to have been possible to have done it in metal because that 's where it took its springboard from . |
| 6 | Well , I think a lot of what happens in the academic world is , and my guess is the fundamental reason they get away with it , is that young people wo n't buy much , spending their own money on it , and I think if they were , you could n't serve up a lot of the crap that passes for higher education today . |
| 7 | ‘ Are you sure you could n't move over an inch or two ? ’ |
| 8 | I would imagine i , i , if they went to look at it for fire and , or anything like that you 'd be in the wrong cos you could n't get out the kitchen . |
| 9 | What about in rounders when you could n't pick up the ball . |
| 10 | The executioner 's argument was , that you could n't cut off a head unless there was a body to cut it off from … . |
| 11 | You could n't close up an Irish house without the weather getting into the fabric . |
| 12 | ' I did , but you ca n't pass up a bargain , can you ? |
| 13 | Or that you 're a duffer if you ca n't polish off a wall gecko in under two minutes ? ’ |
| 14 | For instance , you ca n't check out the card 's configuration just by looking at it , and you ca n't change the configuration if you do n't have the set-up utility . |
| 15 | You ca n't tidy up the house until after the fingerprint team have been , and I 've already told you that I 'll arrange for that to be done . ’ |
| 16 | You ca n't tear out the page because that would upset the numbering system . |
| 17 | You ca n't fill in the application form . |
| 18 | But you ca n't wipe out the past as if it did n't exist , Ruth thought . |
| 19 | You ca n't breathe in a village — ’ |
| 20 | Chair , on the recommendations erm on item D , I 'm a bit unhappy about the use of the term ‘ natural ’ disasters , because I believe that many of the disasters that people in Oxford are actually giving money for are man made disasters , particularly matters of international economics and the unfair burden , erm unfair distribution of wealth which places a whole sector of the world in poverty , and I think , you know , you do get a magnificent response from people in Oxford to these charities , and we must be aware that there are a whole number of greater issues involved , and while I hear what you 're saying earlier on about you ca n't take on the problems of the whole world , I think when people are actually giving money to charities for example , like Oxfam , they are often unaware of these issues , and we do have a wider role in making the , joining with organisations like Oxfam in spreading public awareness on these issues . |
| 21 | You ca n't get down the escalator , everyone 's looking at you , then there are all these other young things flipping around the changing rooms in the shops . |
| 22 | Look at all the sand , you ca n't get down the sand 's so deep . |
| 23 | What this rush to a newer , more gorgeous you fails to accept is that you ca n't keep up the pace forever . |
| 24 | So if you 've got children looking at mortgages , just tell them to be careful and that I think really my advice would be to , for anyone starting off a new mortgage now , to definitely go for repayment , until they 've sorted out what they 're doing , because if you cash an endowment within two years , if you ca n't keep up the payments , if you lose your job , then y you get nothing back . |
| 25 | You can close the door , but you ca n't put out the lights . |
| 26 | This saves time and you wo n't block up the aisle when there are other passengers . |
| 27 | Different views of a sculpture can be presented , but you can not move round a sculpture except with a film camera . |
| 28 | ‘ You can not wake up an old lady just to listen to your insane and morbid fantasies . ’ |
| 29 | You can turn down a fire hose to water a garden , but you can not turn up a garden hose sufficiently to tackle a fire . |
| 30 | er and other commitments that twelve men in a in a village such as erm Pentiford or Pentiford will give twenty four hours cover for fires , all through the year and there are very rarely incidents where you can not turn out a crew . |