Example sentences of "you [vb mod] n't [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the other side of the Festival as well , you must n't lose track of , is that the Festival |
| 2 | ‘ Geese are the ones you must n't say boo to . ’ |
| 3 | Well that 's true but maybe , you know and if you 've to drink she , maybe you should n't drink sherry on top of what you 've had injected into you . |
| 4 | Just because the distribution of this information may be restricted to your own staff or a close circle of customers does n't mean that you should n't pay attention to its style or presentation , far from it . |
| 5 | Well you should n't play tennis on , on er on squash |
| 6 | I do n't see why you should n't have access to those . ’ |
| 7 | You should n't need oasis in a narrow container as the flowers wo n't have room to move about . |
| 8 | For instance : ‘ You should lose weight ’ , ‘ You should n't be so inarticulate at work ’ , ‘ You should n't pursue money as a goal ’ , ‘ You should be kinder to your mother when she phones for a long chat . ’ |
| 9 | You could n't do business with — take over — an organization unless it was private enterprise . |
| 10 | You could n't invent stuff like this . |
| 11 | You could n't distinguish German from ice . |
| 12 | But you could n't drape prettiness over Timothy Gedge . |
| 13 | You could n't take responsibility for living bodies , blood that can flow , nerves that can actually feel . |
| 14 | And of course , you could n't keep pace with it , because Buckingham Palace had bought it you see , and it was good . |
| 15 | The sort of secretary you could n't get hold of at Harris , Harris and Overdene . |
| 16 | Because I could n't er i mean Chris was one minute he was on the phone , the next minute you could n't get hold of him . |
| 17 | At one time he , he lived at , they lived at but er er she was a widow and she was ninety but she was very good to us and , but we had er , we had apartments but there was a lock on both sides of the door , you know what I mean , we were quite self-contained and we had er er a narrow stairs and because of the war I could n't , you could n't er , I used to scrub the stairs down because you could n't buy carpet in those days , you see because of the war and to the shortage of stuff and so I used to keep those stairs nice and , we had a , a , we went , as we went up these stairs erm it , I suppose originally , you see , it would have been back stairs for the servants , you see , in the hall and this old lady used to go in and if ever she had the doctor she used to ask me if I would go and sit with her and hold her hand while the doctor came , you see . |
| 18 | ‘ Anyway , you ca n't commit suicide with a twelve bore , although they 're always doing it in books . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , you ca n't accuse Fishbane of being queer these days . ’ |
| 20 | And you ca n't stop science from helping us to make a better job of things . |
| 21 | You ca n't make love at pistol point … her being filled with remorse , and she checked herself from flinging her arms round Lucy : steady , Jay , she told herself , we 're only seconds away from no , nay , never . |
| 22 | ‘ You ca n't make love to me like that and then expect me to carry on as if nothing 's happened . |
| 23 | No , no I do n't think I could cos I 'm on me own such a lot , I ca n't , you ca n't make conversation by yourself can ya ? |
| 24 | Erm it does n't so You ca n't make soap in it . |
| 25 | Let's face it , if you ca n't make par on a par-5 to win , you ought to be shot . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ But you ca n't make war without the Kha-Khan 's permission . ’ |
| 27 | If you 've been drinking beer you can you ca n't smell beer on anybody else , can you ? |
| 28 | You ca n't retain control of it at all . |
| 29 | You are the pleasures which we draw him on to — ( He escapes a fractional giggle but recovers immediately ) and by that I do n't mean your usual filth ; you ca n't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires . |
| 30 | When you actually abolish these things , you ca n't expect behaviour to be totally unchanged . |