Example sentences of "you can not [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 you really like Christmas do n't you John ? , he said yes , the hall way you can not move in the hall way , it is dripping with decorations , right ,
2 If you allow the speed to build up you will rapidly get into a situation you can not cope with , so take it very steadily until you become more experienced and confident .
3 It is very important to keep our name and work in the public eye and if you know about a suitable event , but feel you can not cope with it yourself , please contact me for help .
4 A stressful circumstance is one with which you can not cope with successfully or believe you can not cope with successfully That 's the important thing .
5 A stressful circumstance is one with which you can not cope with successfully or believe you can not cope with successfully That 's the important thing .
6 ‘ If you do not know where you are then you 're quite likely to wander on to something you can not cope with . ’
7 You can not walk on a cloud ! "
8 You can not walk past them if you 're going in that way .
9 If the issue today in some people 's eyes is the need for this community in Greater York to be one hundred percent self sufficient then perhaps we really ought to go pack up and er go home , er because there 's no way that er a settlement that one could envisage in Greater York or perhaps anywhere else can be a hundred percent self sufficiency , self sufficient , you 're not going to get a shopping mall , you 'd be unlikely to get a a major touring theatre , so you can not aim for a hundred percent self sufficiency , you aim for what is appropriate for the size of the community and particularly its relationship to existing settlements er in the general area .
10 You can not expect to be asked the questions exactly as they appear here and you will be badly thrown if you have programmed yourself with exact responses to very particular questions which do not crop up in the way you had anticipated .
11 Believe in God for wrong reasons or for no reason at all and you can not expect to be free from doubt .
12 Indeed , you can not expect to be paid a great deal , but on the credit side you have no overheads and you will find the practice valuable , both in reading the pattern and using the machine .
13 You can not expect to be taken seriously with a bovine 's milking tackle perched on your bonce .
14 You can not expect to be in the national squad unless you can prove that you are good enough , so I just have to continue the learning process , equip myself fully for the task , get a bit fitter and that , hopefully , will be at least half the battle ’ .
15 Then cut it up , I do n't know you can not loo go through you can not go through those !
16 In the end there has to be a limit , there has to be a level beyond which you can not go without people cracking under the strain , without people saying I 'm now doing the job that was done by two people , two and half people a few years ago .
17 Of course , keeping a pet , any pet , means that you can not go on holiday without making arrangements for someone else to look after it .
18 I was just going to mention the fact that if you have had breast cancer you can not go on H R T cos it was a hormone that caused it in the first place !
19 You can not go to a Franciscan centre without coming face to face with Francis ' emphasis on the cross .
20 You can not go to the police ? ’
21 You can better them if you wish , but you can not go below them .
22 But you can not go from the reed-pipe to the art of fugue in one day .
23 Do you , however , feel you can not progress with your skiing due to interferences , such as fear ?
24 The down-side may be that you now see without any shadow of doubt that you can not exist in an emotional or sexual wilderness indefinitely .
25 As Mr Howe said : ‘ People say you make your own luck but you can not legislate for something like that . ’
26 Now there can be as many as nine of the top ten in that category and as both Brian Gottfried and David Wheaton astutely pointed out , you can not legislate for that .
27 ‘ But you can not legislate for a change of heart .
28 But you can not legislate for bad luck like that .
29 If you are not related by blood , or were not legally married to the deceased , you can not inherit from him or her if he or she dies without a will .
30 This is a situation where you can not knock on a door and hope to be immediately granted the favours you seek .
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