Example sentences of "you ca [not/n't] [verb] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next , before you find yourself in a situation you ca n't control you need to know about contraception and safe sex . |
| 2 | But still , if you ca n't joke you ca n't do anything can you ? |
| 3 | It is cheating a bit , I fear , to think of the Basque Coast as Pyrenean , because at this end of the chain , unlike at the other , the mountains fight shy of the water and make a decisive turn to the west some miles inland , to enter Spain ; so you can see the most northerly or westerly Pyrenees easily enough from points along the coast , but you ca n't feel you are among them . |
| 4 | Now I 'm gon na leave it there , 'cos one thing that 's emerged is that even though you 've had this sheet with the diagram to tell you how to do it , you ca n't do you ca n't do it yet . |
| 5 | You ca n't change you ca n't change anything on there because the guy 's signed it . |
| 6 | Erm but if you ca n't sleep you could put a little bit on a hankie on your pillow or rub a little bit on your chest , and it 'll help to erm make you sleep . |
| 7 | You ca n't sleep you 're actually providing your own sleep deprivation and you say hey , next thing you know I really will be falling down the stairs ! but he does n't seem to get the joke and then it 's back to the cell and then the interview room with the barred , opaqued windows so you ca n't see out and they switch on the tape-machine recording everything as usual and it 's getting more bizarre ; they get me to do a Michael Caine voice ! |
| 8 | And you ca n't go you need n't go round until they 're both together . |
| 9 | Although they did n't , they did n't act illegally , they did n't say right , we 're going to make the redundancy payment act , but what they did say you retire at fifty , we will make your we will enhance your pension to what you would have got at age sixty , we will enhance your lump sum to what you would have got at age sixty and erm give you a redundancy payment from the firm and obviously everybody fifty and plus they 've gone in thousands , they had enormous waiting lists and then they had to say no , you ca n't go you know , too many people wanted to go . |
| 10 | If you ca n't go you miss your turn . |
| 11 | images you ca n't thank you they 're mirror images that you ca n't superimpose . |
| 12 | Because a client can not pay you , you ca n't say you wo n't act for him , you ca n't tell him to go and sort the Inland Revenue out himself . |
| 13 | ‘ You ca n't say you bought it , ’ said Betty , speaking now with quiet satisfaction . |
| 14 | And , ’ he went on before she could interrupt , ‘ you ca n't deny you were all over me from the very beginning . |
| 15 | ‘ You ca n't deny you want it too ? ’ |