Example sentences of "so you can [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you have to admit you do look very young and innocent , so you ca n't blame me for putting on the Big Daddy bit . ’ |
| 2 | You wo n't learn where I 'm holed up so you ca n't give anything away . |
| 3 | But all the German one is stuck out about what , about inch , so you ca n't open one the the fucking si side door . |
| 4 | Part-time work , so you ca n't expect the same rates as fulltimers would get . |
| 5 | It 's not too tall , so you ca n't expect vast expansion potential — it has two 5.25-inch and one 3.5-inch free drive bays . |
| 6 | Yes if she 's coming out you mean you do n't , you do n't have to do it all tonight she wan might want to be talking about erm her grading a lot so you ca n't expect her to do any work until she 's got that out of her system she might want to go on for an hour or so . |
| 7 | ‘ So you ca n't think of anybody who would have killed the Admiral or Mr Trueman ? ’ |
| 8 | You 've done more than you thought you 'd ever get away with and so in a sense it 's all gain from here , in fact it 's been all gain for some time and so you ca n't complain and you do n't intend to if fate deserts you now . |
| 9 | ‘ So you ca n't tell me much ? ’ |
| 10 | We both just say stationary so you ca n't tell by the sound of it how you spell it ? |
| 11 | The floor is only ten inches square so you ca n't sit down or squat in it . |
| 12 | The table is too heavy to move , so you ca n't ram him into the wall with it , and there are no other weapons around . |
| 13 | ‘ So you ca n't accuse me of hiding anything . ’ |
| 14 | I am low-status so you ca n't do anything to diminish me . |
| 15 | Now usually in the exams they work it so you ca n't do that cos they give you a graph already drawn and they 'll have sort of erm two squares is equal to one unit along the bottom but only one square equals one unit |
| 16 | And three of the walls are made of cement with bits of broken glass sticking out all over , so you ca n't lean against them . |
| 17 | The name seems to carry its own guarantee of quality and prices are generally fair , so you ca n't go wrong . |
| 18 | Right , I wan na do something all together now okay , so you ca n't go right now Right . |
| 19 | It 's making money me money so you ca n't go up ! |
| 20 | The person who is writing it is at a meeting so you ca n't speak to him . ’ |
| 21 | Your gut can get infected , so you ca n't absorb the goodness in your food . |
| 22 | Now it did n't mean that you build his war machine , but the Kuwaiti people being so close , or actually bordering , we helped the economy of Baghdad , we helped the economy of the Iraq , and we contributed thirteen billion dollars , just the government alone , to their economy and the people of Kuwait also helped with their own private donation to help the schools , the hospitals , the food , whatever they needed , and the country of Kuwait was erm trying to be , as my friend said , as neutral as possible because there is Irani interest in Kuwait , very great through trade , through Iranis who work in Kuwait , so we had a very difficult position with respect to keeping both parties erm sort of in sight , not lose sight of them from our humanistic point of view , but it was erm difficult to avoid being on the side of the Iraqui , mainly because they 're neighbours and they 're Arabs , and you 're part of the league of Arab states , so you ca n't draw the line and say the government was pro or against , but that was the atmosphere which we were leaving . |
| 23 | You have to code the numbers of the athletes and they are supposed to be on the inside so you ca n't read them , but they were outside so you could — you could see which one was from Krabbe , Breuer and Moller . |
| 24 | The withdrawal of privileges is a very popular response by parents to non-compliance — for example : ‘ You 've been cheeky so I wo n't let you go out ’ ; ‘ You disobeyed me by going out on the road so you ca n't have that ice-cream . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But then I 'd have been worried if they 'd been lethargic , so you ca n't have it all ways ! ’ |
| 26 | Well as John said wet and windy everywhere unless you go very far north but those people up at Ayr it 's gon na be cold so you ca n't have everything . |
| 27 | I 've cut it so you ca n't have any |
| 28 | And you hit it and it bends up and it just dies and I 've been sitting like , I mean I , I definitely do n't think that it is anything with the way I hold it in like cos I 've been sitting going and I just , just hit it and it goes ee , it just dies so you ca n't bend , that 's on too . |
| 29 | I meant to bring my own , but I forgot , and somebody 's used the wrong kind of pen on here , so you ca n't rub that off . |
| 30 | because governments have to defend the country , so you ca n't believe promises parties out of power make to disarm ( justification of stated opinion ) ; |