Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [modal v] n't just [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since then it keeps stabbing me — this feeling I got ta smash something , that I ca n't just do nothing , drumming my fingers while others make the game . |
| 2 | If it was n't there already , the impact of recession has spurred awareness in the corporate law sector that you ca n't just sit and wait for clients to come to your door with their next little legal exercise . |
| 3 | When you 've brawled around for as long as I have your senses get to know the kind of fix that you ca n't just walk through or away from . |
| 4 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 5 | There 's erm there 's always a tension for those of us who are parents , particularly those of us who erm send our children to the state schools , as to erm what 's in the best interests of our own particular individual child and what might be in the best interests of all the children in the area in which we live , and erm this vote was an invitation to think only , very selfishly , of what might be the situation for our children , and I 'm very glad that erm many parents in Banbury thought of children in general living in North Oxfordshire and erm realise that you ca n't just take one limb of an education service and send it off spinning into its own orbit and not expect the rest to suffer . |
| 6 | so that it does n't alienate the person and , and , and they regard you as a , you know and that 's actually probably quite tricky , except of course that you ca n't just let them off , because you are actually an officer of the court . |
| 7 | The point I 'm making is that you ca n't just interchange the words ‘ black ’ music and ‘ disco ’ music . |
| 8 | Well there was always the parlour , you must have the parlour and er you , you had two living rooms and the one was the parlour and there was a cellar underneath the parlour and er the stairs used to come in from the back and go up , up the stairs over the entrance to the cellar but the stairs used to run up there underneath the stairs was the entrance to the cellar , there was a door , so that you could n't just walk down the cellar without opening the door you see , but apart from that there was er there was just the two , two bedrooms . |
| 9 | You know his father had started the company and the men , the older men in the quarry had been there from day one with him , you know from when they were producing next to nothing to being quite a profitable concern , and he realized the value of these men , and that you could n't just say , oh because they disagree with you just well , down the road pal . |
| 10 | The first piece of advice that 's necessary is that you should n't just try to be fashionable by choosing juicy speeches that catch your eye without knowing the whole play and having a working idea of how to perform the speech . |
| 11 | I suppose , ’ he said , ‘ that we ca n't just slip out now . |
| 12 | Leeds chairman Leslie Silver Wwednesday defended the controversial decision to sell Batty and said : ‘ No manager wants to sell his best players but Howard Wilkinson is practical enough to realise that we ca n't just buy other people 's best players — it works the other way round sometimes . |
| 13 | Just the hint of a vengeful smile accompanied the massage that we could n't just walk off with that there dog — we 'd have to take him to the parcels office and sign for him . |
| 14 | At the same time I think others , or the points she raises , erm , you know are good points and I do n't think that we should just my personal feeling is that we should n't just shelve it . |
| 15 | We knew that it would n't just go away if we swept it under the carpet . |
| 16 | ‘ I have felt for a long time that the only way this issue was going to be resolved was to have it fixed on a political level — that it would n't just fade away . |
| 17 | Because Neil plays very hard he produces a lot of power through the pickups , and he has recently realised that he ca n't just put any pickup with any EQ system , otherwise the signal from the bass simply overloads things … |
| 18 | But she heard herself saying , still in shrewish style , that on the contrary there was n't any time in the morning , that she had to go to a psychoanalytical conference in the Metropole Hotel with a bunch of Japanese in the morning , that she wanted to talk now , that he could n't just announce that he wanted to get divorced and then decide he was too tired to talk about it . |
| 19 | Something about them made him feel deeply afraid , but he knew that he could n't just stand there . |