Example sentences of "that you [modal v] n't do " in BNC.
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| 1 | That you would n't do anything like that . ’ |
| 2 | You know that you ca n't do anything , you ca n't go anywhere , you ca n't make arrangements to do anything . |
| 3 | If for some reason it subsequently becomes obvious that you ca n't do what you said you 'd do , then the genuine thing to do is to contact the person before the deadline expires , admit your difficulty and negotiate a new deadline . |
| 4 | ‘ You must n't feel that you ca n't do anything . |
| 5 | My career since 1982 has been remarkable for the number of men who have harboured exactly those prejudices that Smith speaks of — that is , that you ca n't do science and medicine and have children . |
| 6 | Well it 's , it 's not so much a suggestion it 's more that you ca n't do multiplicational area until |
| 7 | [ There was discrimination ] not directly , but in subtle ways , like when you 're choosing your options , no matter what you 're doing there 's always a group where you can do cookery or needlework , but if you 're doing physics you have to put that down , and that means that you ca n't do something else that you might want to do , like history or something ; you 've got to make a positive choice to do science whereas it 's quite easy to drift into doing history and things like that . |
| 8 | losing weight , to realising that you ca n't do anything about it . |
| 9 | Erm so in a way knowing your preference , does n't mean that you ca n't do this . |
| 10 | ‘ I ca n't do anything that you ca n't do . |
| 11 | Yeah , but he would say that you ca n't do it in terms of space and time . |
| 12 | Well it it also allows me to once again break in here because er one of the things that you ca n't do in home improvement areas is talk to people about the final price on the phone . |
| 13 | You should tell her that you ca n't do it . |
| 14 | I find that incredible that you ca n't do that . |
| 15 | So a lot of , a lot of the problems with some of the areas of the work is because you do it so infrequent it 's not that you ca n't do it , it 's that you feel |
| 16 | It means you can pack in a lot more things in your day , you can work , you can look after your children , you can take them out , you can do a lot of things that you could n't do otherwise . |
| 17 | ’ Anne exclaimed , and her mother said , ‘ Did you explain that you could n't do it , Bridie ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , and you also told me , yesterday , that you could n't do a thing about it . ’ |
| 19 | Richard Kerr is consultant neurosurgeon there , Richard tell me a bit about this , what , what sort of things does it allow you to do now that you could n't do in , in the past ? |