Example sentences of "you can [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can easily enough slip in a clue in two quick words somewhere , but when at the end of a book you say that your detective solved the case from noticing that one briefly-stated fact , the reader will experience a sense of let-down . |
| 2 | You can not simply propose to me with no more reason than the discovery that I happen to sleep with a woman and expect an instant answer . |
| 3 | ‘ If you act as a rubber stamp you can not also expect to be taken seriously as a watchdog . ’ |
| 4 | You can not just hop on a train in Sweden , but must think about it carefully and purchase a ticket in advance . |
| 5 | ‘ You can not possibly know to what I am referring . ’ |
| 6 | You can not really communicate in art without a common language . |
| 7 | You can not only experiment with different feet positions and weighting but also with the angle at which the feet are placed across the board . |
| 8 | ‘ Either I have your word on It or I am afraid you can no longer remain in my employ . |
| 9 | Whatever your scenario in December , what is being brought home to you is that you can no longer stand on the sidelines of your own life . |
| 10 | At our age you can no longer remember in what order things happened . |
| 11 | The development itself also takes its name from the St Mary 's lighthouse at Whitley Bay which , according to sales negotiator , Doreen xxxxxxx ‘ you can just about see from a top floor window . ’ |
| 12 | And you can then also couple between keyboards so that if you want to you can play the sounds from this keyboard on the lower one by coupling the two together and making them work as a pair , but that removes the inde independency of being able to set one against the other . |
| 13 | ‘ Obviously it would be good to look at more examples from different cultures , but it 's such a huge subject , in ten weeks you can only really deal with the tip of the iceberg . |
| 14 | How do you , friends , change a structure which is still the old structure with a civil service , a security and everything that goes with it and move to one of democracy and justice because if you move too rapidly and you do not make concessions and you ignore the terrible power of the right wing with all the military might at its disposal you can very easily create in South Africa a Lebanon or indeed , yes , a Yugoslavia . |
| 15 | Half of them are n't in — and a message like that is n't something you can very well leave with a neighbour . |
| 16 | ‘ And of course , ’ says the reporter , ‘ you can always just sit at one of the city 's many charming little cafés and just watch the world go by . ’ |
| 17 | I realise that you can never really win against the water ; it will always triumph in the end , seeping and soaking and building up and undermining and overflowing . |
| 18 | By the time Tennyson revisited Cauterets , in 1861 , what he thought of as a village he now found to be , in his less poetic moods , ‘ an odious watering-place ’ , and that is a transition you can readily enough trace in the architecture today . |