Example sentences of "[adj] thing you [vb mod] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's another thing you ca n't get now is very much is chocolate blancmange . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , there 's one good thing you wo n't be able to wear with it and that 's three petticoats . ’ |
| 3 | And there 's no telling quite what they will do … some nights they put on a full stage show , other times there may be a game or a sing song to join in with … but whatever the day , whatever the time there 's one thing you wo n't be at Tropicana , and that 's bored ! |
| 4 | But there 's one thing you wo n't find in nature . |
| 5 | ‘ One thing you wo n't have out there ’ Agnes said ‘ is a credit card for Winterbotham . |
| 6 | She said , she said there 's one thing you wo n't get diphtheria ! |
| 7 | Remember , the one thing you ca n't do is duck the issue . |
| 8 | The one thing you ca n't quibble about is the voice . |
| 9 | You are a very intelligent girl and you have read a great deal — no , I mean it ; one thing you ca n't say is that I have been trying to flatter you — but you do n't know everything , you do n't know the French , the real French ( though the Fourniers are quite an example of one kind ) , you can have no idea of what life among us is like , the attitudes , the demands ; if you like , the values . |
| 10 | For one thing you ca n't be too careful these days , and for another I always manage to get stuck with the check when Connors eats with me . |
| 11 | They like things to be loud and dramatic , and if there 's one thing you ca n't have in good sorcery , it 's loud noises and drama . |
| 12 | But one thing you ca n't disguise is that you 'd rather not be there . |
| 13 | But one thing you ca n't do , is criticise this county council at all , it 's simply not our fault . |
| 14 | That I 'm afraid that 's one thing you ca n't do |
| 15 | ‘ We did magnificently but had one mad moment — the one thing you should n't do against Liverpool is to give John Barnes a free-kick in that position . ’ |
| 16 | It was the one thing you could n't do when you stayed in a hotel . |
| 17 | That 's one thing you need n't worry about . |
| 18 | A remote , glass-encased thing you could n't touch … |
| 19 | About the only thing you ca n't do is edit . |
| 20 | The only thing you ca n't do is soft those , we can do diamonds , erm , the only thing you ca n't do is pearls |
| 21 | The only thing you ca n't do is soft those , we can do diamonds , erm , the only thing you ca n't do is pearls |
| 22 | About the only thing you would n't be able to say about it is that it ‘ washes whiter ’ . |
| 23 | out of shit and she oh had a different bloke in her flat every night and you never , you , if you ever wanted to see her that was the one really annoying thing you could n't really go and see her and she was hardly ever about . |