Example sentences of "[adj] you [modal v] not [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You 've made it pretty clear you could n't care less . ’
2 and when you 're unemployed you ca n't afford to go thirty miles
3 Remember that if you return home at the end of the session with the work you planned to do uncompleted you can not expect to return the next day or the next week to find the situation exactly as you left it .
4 They keep the temperature so high you ca n't adjust when you come out , and everyone gets ill .
5 So high you ca n't get over it
6 It 's so high you ca n't get over it , so low you ca n't get under it , so wide you ca n't get round it .
7 It went so fast you did n't know how fast it was going ; it went so high you could n't see how high it was .
8 ‘ I want you to know we did n't use any of this nonsense ’ , Koch protested between the titters ; ‘ … you would sort of start down that road and get so self-conscious you could n't do it . ’
9 ‘ Besides , I was afraid you would n't let me come if I phoned . ’
10 ‘ I was afraid you might not think him the right friend for me , ’ said Mrs Ames .
11 ‘ Then I 'm afraid you might not approve of our rustic environment and rural activities . ’
12 I was afraid you might n't make it on your own . ’
13 ‘ However … speaking of accommodation , I 'm afraid you 'll not find any suites of the type you have in mind — although there are the chalets , ’ she added as an afterthought .
14 ‘ I 'm afraid you ca n't see her .
15 ‘ Then I 'm afraid you ca n't see her .
16 No , I 'm afraid you wo n't see the baby again .
17 ‘ I 'm afraid you wo n't have any difficulty in remembering the name .
18 ‘ I 'm afraid you wo n't have the pleasure of seeing me onstage .
19 I 'm afraid you could not come here . ’
20 Now that 's different you 'll not get em to cancel it but to get them to spin it out over a longer period is a possibility and that 's what we 're gon na be working towards .
21 ‘ We have both learnt our dialectic in the academic arena where knocks that would frighten the London literary coteries are given and taken in good part ; and even where you think me sometimes too pert you will not suspect me of malice .
22 Just compare Cosmos value — we are convinced you wo n't find a better deal anywhere !
23 Rightly or wrongly I was convinced you could not deal with unemployment without a tariff .
24 They 're trying to make the bottom bit look decent now , they keep buying things for it , but it never looks right you ca n't see it from here , we 'll go out and look at the garden after tea . "
25 ‘ It was so loud you could n't ignore it .
26 If you 're normal you wo n't have enjoyed this book much ( ! ) — but apart from that you will also continue to get things wrong occasionally .
27 I 'm sorry you ca n't stand the pace , Merrill , not to mention surprised .
28 Sorry you ca n't have children .
29 Sorry you ca n't have it .
30 No chance sorry you ca n't have it ?
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