Example sentences of "[indef pn] you [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it is very difficult to focus anger and revenge on someone you ca n't picture . |
| 2 | In addition to her other problems , Kate Adie has achieved the status of someone you ca n't write about without attracting the wrath of the soft-left establishment ( aka your own Sean French and the Independent 's Reggie Nadelson ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Why , Alice , ’ Harry said , staring at her curiously , ‘ you sound as if you 've fallen in love with someone you ca n't have . |
| 4 | The fact that his father behaved towards him for most of the time with mild , if somewhat unthinking kindness , did not rule out this possibility which is present at some time or other in most children 's minds : after all , if you were going to kill someone you would naturally go on being kind to them for the time being , giving them money for sweets and generally keeping up appearances . |
| 5 | Certainly not someone you 'd ever expect to enjoy poetry ! ) |
| 6 | ‘ You could have , after all , been stranded with someone you 'd never set eyes on — someone who was n't the least bit hospitable . |
| 7 | It was more like the noise dogs make sometimes — a see-sawing musical phrase , as if it was talking to someone you could n't see . |
| 8 | And in the absence of someone you can legitimately blame ( it 's rarely possible to give the person firing you the sort of vitriolic tongue-lashing you 'd like to ) , you may hit out at your nearest and dearest . |
| 9 | Also , even world class sailors only get it right about 80 per cent of the time , so by following someone you will never manage to beat them and you will often get lead the wrong way . |
| 10 | Have you ever fallen in love with somebody you should n't have ? |
| 11 | ‘ Nothin' you could exactly put yer finger on , like , ’ said Carrie ominously . |
| 12 | ‘ Nothing you wo n't see for yourself . |
| 13 | ‘ When you 've a child with a condition like this , there 's nothing you would n't do to help him . ’ |
| 14 | If you were shining it into pure nothing you would n't see anything . |
| 15 | There were some bruised shins and sprained ankles , black eyes and a few cuts and grazes but nothing you would n't get on a rugby field , although a couple of old ladies were taken off home by ambulance with attacks of the vapours . |
| 16 | If the person walks through nothing you would suddenly see the person as he walked in the light . |
| 17 | ‘ But nothing you ca n't cope with ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ There 's nothing you ca n't bear . |
| 19 | I went for an audition for a pantomime and she said , ‘ Now do n't forget , Beryl , there 's nothing you ca n't do . ’ |
| 20 | There 's nothing you ca n't know . |
| 21 | There is absolutely nothing you can not eat or drink if you want to . |
| 22 | for he applauded Wyndham Lewis 's alter ego in Tarr , when the latter explained that it is a condition of art ‘ to have no inside , nothing you can not see . |
| 23 | I just cos when I see children like that and you know there 's nothing you can really do for them , you ca n't make up for the fact that they 've got a rotten home life and that 's top and bottom line that 's what it is ! |
| 24 | Nothing you can put your finger on , nothing you can really attack , but it worries me . |
| 25 | So , since there 's nothing you can usefully do at the moment , you 'd better go and lie down . ’ |
| 26 | The offeror can not say ‘ if you do nothing you will thereby accept my offer ! ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Nothing you 'd probably want to hear about , chief . ’ |
| 28 | right , but we 've never covered all this see , you 've picked bits up as you 've gone along and another thing you should never give a choice of something and nothing you should always give a choice of something and something else |
| 29 | ‘ No-one you 'll ever know . ’ |
| 30 | To Eric I say a heartfelt merci bien for everything you 're doing at Leeds , and for everything you may yet do to help improve my love life . |