Example sentences of "you can [adv] [verb] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can not drag people screaming to one . ’ |
| 2 | You can not influence people without talking to them , and that is why I saw President ( FW ) de Klerk and Mr ( Barend ) du Plessis . |
| 3 | You can try to restrict the use of written or spoken obscenities , but you can not compel people to think clean . |
| 4 | You can not blame people for being defensive . |
| 5 | If you can not organize people to come into your home to look after the patient , he may be able to attend a local Day Centre run by the Local Authority . |
| 6 | Moreover , the association suffers from a very Periclean problem : you can not force people to vote in a self-regulatory organisation . |
| 7 | You can not force people to protect trees , wetlands , top soil , water or indeed other species . |
| 8 | ‘ You can not censor people 's backgrounds and it has happened before that , for instance , someone playing a joyrider in a play is an actual joyrider . ’ |
| 9 | For your family 's sake you should make one , and during November you can also help people in the poorest countries of the world . |
| 10 | You can also ask people to speak in support of what you say . |
| 11 | You can only see people 's eyes looking out of the eye-holes in the clothes . |
| 12 | Most modern philosophers would say it was nonsense to say that cruelty was cruel , you can only call people cruel , particular things . |
| 13 | — Department store bosses trying to try on clothes in their fiddly little changing rooms ( you can always tell people who 've been clothes shopping they 're the ones with the bruised elbows ) ; — Town planners and architects who think steps are an interesting feature trying to get up them in a wheelchair , with a pram , or just with creaky old legs ; — Hospital consultants who make ten appointments for the same time waiting in out-patients , especially if it 's the day when there 's a dotty old lady , a whining child and an old man who coughs and spits all in the same little section ; — Weird fashion experts wearing their crazier outfits in Darlington on a rainy Monday . |
| 14 | YOU CAN always spot people who do n't know anything about pop music when they ca n't tell the blokes from the women on records . |
| 15 | You can always read people 's eyes , especially with your kind of facial expressions , cos the eyes always tell the truth . |
| 16 | And if you 've got big enough names , you can actually move people , quite fast . |
| 17 | ( This is not to say that you can deliberately reach people by advertising ‘ subliminally ’ , merely that it is quite possible to get a message out of an ad without really being aware of it . ) |
| 18 | You can hardly expect people to make a journey of six hours round trip for an afternoon 's event unless it is very special . |