Example sentences of "can n't just [vb infin] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | CANCER The past is something you ca n't just shake off . |
| 2 | and you ca n't just measure it . |
| 3 | ‘ You ca n't just switch your emotions on and off like a light-switch . ’ |
| 4 | Y equals log X squared you ca n't just picture log X. |
| 5 | ‘ A cold ca n't just disappear . |
| 6 | ‘ He ca n't just disappear . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I ca n't just drop my patients . ’ |
| 8 | " I ca n't just drop everything and go off on a picnic . " |
| 9 | He added : ‘ What I mean is , we ca n't just dump her , not now . ’ |
| 10 | And because I ca n't just dump myself on complete strangers … ’ |
| 11 | Why , I ca n't just arrive on people that way . |
| 12 | I ca n't just arrive like this , with nothing . ’ |
| 13 | Well no it ca n't Angela ask him somebody ask him , he ca n't just arrive and start doing things . |
| 14 | They ca n't just miss it out . ’ |
| 15 | Having said that , in order to get into production , or even to use it , you ca n't just set up in those days any more than you can today , now you need planning permission to , you need . |
| 16 | ‘ I ca n't just walk out on her . ’ |
| 17 | I ca n't just walk out . |
| 18 | When you 've brawled around for as long as I have your senses get to know the kind of fix that you ca n't just walk through or away from . |
| 19 | You ca n't just walk in off the street and say ‘ I want to study a degree in neurophysiology or erm or chemistry even . ’ |
| 20 | So I have to do something because I ca n't just stand idle and let my kids die . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I ca n't stop such outrages but I ca n't just stand by and let them continue . |
| 22 | cos we ca n't just stand by and watch her fade away can we ? |
| 23 | I ca n't just do nothing ! |
| 24 | Ever since then it keeps stabbing me — this feeling I got ta smash something , that I ca n't just do nothing , drumming my fingers while others make the game . |
| 25 | You ca n't just do things like that , on a whim . ’ |
| 26 | No , but er I ca n't just do this with it ! |
| 27 | they 've gave us since we 've been creating that much she 's had been in to see Mr she said and he says oh no he says er that 's not right Brenda , he says er mine are all guaranteed until they 're earning that money he says you ca n't just do it |
| 28 | it 's hard you know you ca n't just do it |
| 29 | ‘ We found you ca n't just lay out the store like a supermarket , ’ Mr Murray said . |
| 30 | Well if you do n't spot that it 's no h it 's no help really you ca n't just think , Oh well I 'll just sit there until it comes into my head . |