Example sentences of "that you [adv] [modal v] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was it was fun when we first started , because the weather was nice , you know it was er you c take a thermos up and have a picnic and sit in the chair and read a book or whatever if there was no one around , but after a while when it became a duty , yeah it was hard work getting up on a winter 's morning , knowing full well that you probably would n't see any cars if you down in until about ten in the morning , but you still had to be there at seven o'clock , and honking it down with rain or whatever . |
| 2 | The children come home with news — someone 's been sick , and so on — that you probably would n't hear about otherwise . |
| 3 | I know there are n't any simple solutions and that you probably can not help but I feel better by just writing . |
| 4 | Maybe that was it , you grew up with a knack that you otherwise could n't acquire , like the owls and the bats and the creatures of the lake . |
| 5 | If , however , you feel that your husband 's taste for this material says something about his whole personality that you simply ca n't stand , then you always have the option of leaving and taking your daughters with you . |
| 6 | Now here you are with your lover 's body and a terrible story that you simply ca n't tell . |
| 7 | You will have read , by , acres of New Year newsprint on dieting , and come to the conclusion that you simply ca n't win . |
| 8 | There are some cases that you simply can not investigate properly without an engineer 's report . |
| 9 | Face up to the fact now that you simply can not keep altering the trim to suit every speed or situation that you may encounter . |
| 10 | ‘ Secondly , timing is crucial and is something that you simply can not work on alone . |
| 11 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 12 | I suppose that you just ca n't help loving this crafty , gormless , dithering , impatient Dagenham boy done good who 's made and apparently lost millions out of being a loveable loser , a part-time winner , with a bit of a chip on his shoulder , perpetually on the edge of panic , needing to much to impress . |
| 13 | In the cold light of day you come to realise that you just can not do it all the time , that the body comes to a point where , for the moment , it has had enough . |
| 14 | People are realizing that you just can not expect much of them and that one way of improving local lives is to get together in local communities and groups and participating wider area networks and in such coalitions of people , th th they manage to keep some sort of community spirit and activity going . |
| 15 | It seems that you just can not win . |
| 16 | It was something that you just could n't talk about , it seemed weird — others would think it weird — liking the teacher like she did . |
| 17 | Sometimes people 's clothes give you problems that you just could n't have imagined . |
| 18 | I know of no fencing of the type you describe — and even if there were , you would be spending a lot of cash to install a feature that you plainly would not want , were it not for the heron 's attentions . |
| 19 | The very fact that you have written to me suggests that you really would n't mind taking things further with him . |
| 20 | Well , that 's true , but there are some people whom you 'd rather not have in your house , that you really ca n't do much to avoid coming , can you really ? |
| 21 | And that 's an obvious erm fact of life , if you like , that you really ca n't get round in any practical way . |
| 22 | ‘ I can imagine you saying that you really could n't tell her because you 'd entirely forgotten the incident — and if it had occurred it meant nothing to you . ’ |
| 23 | Fruits and vegetables , even in their raw , unprocessed state , differ so much that you certainly ca n't say that all of them are useful sources of fibre . |