Example sentences of "not [adj] you [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this is not possible you may have to forget the whole report unless your client will accept that you have read it , or a separate part of it , and they can not . |
| 2 | If this is not possible you can crush a pill between two spoons to make a powder which can be sprinkled onto the lips and tongue of the baby if needed . |
| 3 | I could see the breath shaking in Laura 's voice as she said , quietly , ‘ Edward , if you 're not careful you might regret this very much . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If you 're not careful you 'll start developing lines of discontent long before you 're out of your youth . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Look , May , ’ he said , ‘ if you 're not careful you 'll end up at the funny farm the way you 're going on . ’ |
| 6 | if you 're not careful you 'll hurt them you see because if you touch their tails or their fins or something . |
| 7 | If you 're not careful you 'll have another one other side ! |
| 8 | ‘ If you 're not careful you 'll fall down and break an arm , ’ his mother said . |
| 9 | If you 're not careful you can spend hours training your staff to use a training system . ’ |
| 10 | There is not much you can do to make radical changes to other people 's basic life positions , but you can use your awareness of the four ‘ OK — Not OK ’ positions to understand why you sometimes feel hopeless , depressed , victimized and so on . |
| 11 | There is no excuse for being caught by a marked police vehicle — but there 's not much you can do about unmarked cars or cameras . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's not much you can do in this storm . ’ |
| 13 | It can be very upsetting to have good shots spoiled in this way ; once the noise is on the tape there 's not much you can do about it except dub it out with a substitute background sound ( see page 80 ) . |
| 14 | And then they get bigger and they start thinking and watching and you realise you 're fouling them up yourself too and there 's not much you can do about that either . |
| 15 | But some children are just shy by nature and there 's not much you can do about it . |
| 16 | When these things hit you there 's not much you can do about them . ’ |
| 17 | Where lead pipe is used for the rising main , it may also contaminate the drinking water — particularly in a soft water area — but there is not much you can do about this since the supply pipe into the house is also likely to be lead and this is difficult and expensive to replace . |
| 18 | ‘ There is not much you can do about it . |
| 19 | Now it 's a long time since I went by tube , and there 's not much you can do in the carriages except keep a handkerchief over your nose , but a useful tip is never to put your hand on the rail beside the moving staircase . |
| 20 | We now have so many choices , so many ‘ looks ’ , that there is not much you can wear without making a statement of some kind . |
| 21 | like to eat , you know , there 's not much you can catch coarse fishing that you can eat anyway erm but most people who go sea fishing do it to eat what they catch . |
| 22 | I think it is essential to understand the key factors for success or failure in your type of business and I 'm not convinced you can do that without actually understanding the process in some detail . |
| 23 | It 's not likely you 'd pick an ugly one . |
| 24 | In order to ascertain whether or not a particular trust is or is not charitable you must look at the preamble to the statute of Elizabeth I , the Charitable Uses Act 1601 and the classification by Lord Macnaghten in Commissioners for the Special Purposes of Income Tax v. Pemsel and the reported cases generally . |
| 25 | I 'm not sure you 'll like it . ’ |
| 26 | I 'm not sure you could take a tabloid in this direction I 'm about to propose that would also appeal to some popular customers , but it 's like , last night everyone was reminiscing about Type ninety and the high points and one of the things that came out in conversation was that there was enormous amount of sex going on which I suppose there is at all conferences , you know , but this one seemed to be , you know , the randiest conference in recent memory . |
| 27 | " Although I 'm not sure you can do it , father What was that ? |
| 28 | If you are not sure you can cope , take an oven timer , turn it round to half a minute and wait for the bell to ring . |
| 29 | I 'm not sure you can cope . ’ |
| 30 | Not sure you can blame the media altogether , I noticed you said there in almost these words er , John Major will the lead the Conservative party into the next election and the Conservatives will win . |