Example sentences of "[adj] thing you [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BELVILLE : If I be set upon a wrong thing you must not dispute with me but do it and expostulate afterwards . |
| 2 | That 's another thing you ca n't get now is very much is chocolate blancmange . |
| 3 | Another thing you might not realize is that erm , erm when you ordered motor buses you had to get authority from the Ministry of Transport and you used to appl apply for a bus grant . |
| 4 | But there 's one thing you wo n't find in nature . |
| 5 | She said , she said there 's one thing you wo n't get diphtheria ! |
| 6 | ‘ One thing you wo n't have out there ’ Agnes said ‘ is a credit card for Winterbotham . |
| 7 | Remember , the one thing you ca n't do is duck the issue . |
| 8 | But one thing you ca n't do , is criticise this county council at all , it 's simply not our fault . |
| 9 | That I 'm afraid that 's one thing you ca n't do |
| 10 | But one thing you ca n't disguise is that you 'd rather not be there . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | The one thing you ca n't quibble about is the voice . |
| 14 | One thing you must not do , however , is add more than a small amount of paint to control surfaces . |
| 15 | The one thing you should not do is waste money and risk your fish 's health by treating the tank with chemicals — there is no point unless you know what you are treating . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | It was the one thing you could n't do when you stayed in a hotel . |
| 18 | You will be angry I know and accuse me of all manner of evil things but one thing you can not accuse me of Lily is not caring for your son upon whose life I swear I love him truly and want only what is best for him . |
| 19 | Right , and you get them to something that you can deal with , because the one thing you can not deal with right , we want to think it over , it is n't matter where you take them to , right whether it 's the bathroom window , whether it 's the one in |
| 20 | That 's one thing you need n't worry about . |
| 21 | A remote , glass-encased thing you could n't touch … |
| 22 | About the only thing you ca n't do is edit . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | The only thing you will not do is make me worry . ’ |
| 26 | Do they inform young people that the only thing you can not lose in life are your paper qualifications — if you think about it ? |
| 27 | The other thing you can not mark is compact discs |