Example sentences of "you [modal v] [adv] [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't have an overdraft and you may not even have a bank account . |
| 2 | ‘ I did wonder , ’ said Sophia at last in desperation , ‘ whether I had committed a grave social error in asking you to dinner alone when you may very well have a mother , wife or fiancee who should have been invited too . ’ |
| 3 | If your new code begins with a K , you will have more tax deducted than previously from your salary each period , but you should not normaly have an extra demand for tax after the end of the year . |
| 4 | ‘ If you stay here a bit longer , ’ Tremayne said , ‘ and if you ride schooling satisfactorily , I do n't see why you should n't eventually have a mount in an amateur race , if you put your mind to it . ’ |
| 5 | And you should actually then produce a letter which is neat and tidy and worthy to send to Doctor and not to your cat ! |
| 6 | Remember that if you hire a builder with a large stetson hat and a six shooter you might very easily reach a situation where , ‘ The house ai n't big enough for both of you . ’ |
| 7 | By doing so you 'll not only find a copy of the best C64 games mag in the known universe on your doormat every month , you 'll also be able to avoid all those nasty lager-swilling thugs on the way to the shops . |
| 8 | Next time you see that familiar mushroom cloud rearing up ( hopefully on your T.V. screen , not across the road ) , look at the base or stalk of the mushroom , and you 'll almost certainly see a ring of cloud rolling away horizontally from it . |
| 9 | if you have R ten times what it was in the pres the previous one , you 'll now only get a tenth of the current out . |
| 10 | And some years you 'd probably maybe get a few pounds back and sometimes you would er maybe have to pay a few pounds . |
| 11 | You could not really beat a Human 's skin . |
| 12 | Women who preferred who preferred traditional methods of sanitary protection either had to stand in long queues in order to buy just one or two towels you could n't even buy a packet , you could just buy one or two or make do with other methods . |
| 13 | You could n't even hear a gun go off next door . |
| 14 | He referred to a dinner given in honour of A. R. Orage , the retiring editor whom Philip Mairet was to replace , which was of inordinate length and at which there were interminable speeches , and where — this was represented as the ultimate horror , uttered in the tones of a cri de coeur — ‘ you could n't even get a drink ! ’ |
| 15 | You could n't even fill a phone box . |
| 16 | Enoch Powell derided the bill as an absurdity : you could n't just invent a second chamber . |
| 17 | The heat surge grill thing in the car had broken and you could n't just buy a n individual switch you er had to buy the whole thing and it was |
| 18 | It is i i I I we have a wide range of changes that would flow out from that so you could n't just take a change to Cornwall which would then create an oversized Devon seat , I quite accept that and we 've argued from the first that this would have to be part of the review as a whole . |
| 19 | A : They are complementary in the sense that you could n't really do an inspection without some documentation . |
| 20 | ‘ Fear that you might leave Czechoslovakia without first returning to your hotel , ’ he replied , then grinned wryly as he added , ‘ For the first time in my life I find that I ca n't think logically — for why would you take a train to Mariánské Láznë to leave Czechoslovakia , when you could more easily take a plane from Prague ? |
| 21 | But sometimes you ca n't even identify an intervening variable , they just seem to have occurred together or arise in some way . |
| 22 | I mean if , if you live on your own you ca n't even peel a potato |
| 23 | You ca n't even take a crap without one of us knowing all about it . ’ |
| 24 | You ca n't even get a compromise really round here in that you 've got ta have one or the other . |
| 25 | And you ca n't even have a bloody free Dinky car . |
| 26 | See you ca n't even have a civilized con |
| 27 | ‘ You ca n't just make a performance of everything you have seen . |
| 28 | ‘ At the same time , you ca n't just give a heap of numbers . |
| 29 | ‘ You ca n't just rent a villa or a flat overlooking the Med and install yourself for a peppercorn rent like people used to . |
| 30 | " You ca n't just threaten a man like that , " the ex-soldier said . |