Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] you ca [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But of course you ca n't just go by character . ’ |
| 2 | Some people think that the police can do everything under the sun like , but of course you ca n't . |
| 3 | Of course you ca n't ride it up trackless slopes of heather , peat hags and boulder fields — in fact you have to carry it on your shoulder as soon as you leave any kind of track at all — but it performed brilliantly on the rocky Land-Rover track back down from the hill . |
| 4 | Of course you ca n't do that with everything ; it would be difficult to have a chat show host or hostess who was a succession of graphics . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course you ca n't have too many players free of defensive duties but you definitely need more than one person who has a licence to attack , ’ he said . |
| 6 | ‘ Of course you ca n't . |
| 7 | Erm one wonders whether that 's erm wise in the long term because once you 've closed down a coal mine of course you ca n't er re-open it very easily because the roof falls in and it floods and effectively you have to start again from er from scratch . |
| 8 | Of course you ca n't put the tails hanging down on bar ten can you . |
| 9 | But of course you ca n't it 's after the event . |
| 10 | Of course you ca n't . |
| 11 | No , of course you ca n't . |
| 12 | " Of course you ca n't . |
| 13 | I mean erm and sometimes of course you ca n't give them the practical help they need , you know , |
| 14 | ‘ Of course you ca n't , ’ she said . |
| 15 | ‘ Of course you ca n't see , chief . |
| 16 | no , of course you ca n't now , but will you have enquiries made and if er , there are an existence of twelve members of parliament ledgers , any report from crisis management and any erm , any er , er minute of a board meeting er at er directors at which the contingency er , at the contingency fund was discussed or recor any recording of value , having enquiries make sure that they exist and then tell me er if , if , if you 're prepared to disclose them |
| 17 | Well one of the great lessons of life is of course you ca n't have everything you want all at the same time it took me about sixty years to learn that . |
| 18 | No , no not when you 've got people sat there and you 're interviewing them , of course you ca n't do that ! |
| 19 | Of course you ca n't ! |
| 20 | Yeah , of course you ca n't sort of cuddle him like that cos he 's too heavy , I rock him you know for a , a couple of minutes , not that long , he 's taken his braces off as well still do , do n't ya ? |
| 21 | You hardly ever see a motor cyclist these days you know unless he 's got an L plate up of course you ca n't get passed because of the erm |
| 22 | Erm one was a penalty on Saturday , G Gary 's and of course you ca n't er really lay a lot of credit for getting in the six yard box on penalties , but he took his other goal well , shot and he pick he picked the bits up off the keeper and Gary scored a good headed goal from a a brilliant cross by Tony . |
| 23 | Now of course you ca n't predict at the level of the individual school what the population is going to be , but you can nevertheless be very clear that the system as a whole is going to have many erm fewer pupils . |
| 24 | Our big problem is that we have over thirty million pounds ' worth of schemes actually in building at the moment , and of course you ca n't stop those without wasting a , an enormous amount of money , so we 're carrying on with those . |
| 25 | A piece of advice you ca n't afford to ignore . |
| 26 | you 've got a soul of steel , a heart of steel you ca n't cope with the buggers ! |
| 27 | It is the sort of thing you ca n't explain to a child . ’ |
| 28 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |
| 29 | And I suspect that even if you replace these people in positions of power you ca n't replace human nature . |
| 30 | [ Honeymoon , by the way , just in case you ca n't cut the etymological mustard , has only in recent times come to denote a nuptial holiday involving the purchase of duty-free goods and the taking of too many colour prints of exactly the same scene . |