Example sentences of "but you can " in BNC.
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| 1 | The VAT returns for the last quarter are due in , and that big ( very profitable ) convention which took over the hotel for three weeks last year is imminent but you ca n't get at your data . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , but you ca n't pick and choose now . |
| 3 | I do n't think there 's any need to talk down to people , but you ca n't assume specialist knowledge . ’ |
| 4 | As an American commentator has remarked of Eagleton , ‘ You can take the boy out of Cambridge , but you ca n't take Cambridge out of the boy . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But you ca n't be generous , you have to go for the best person for the job . |
| 6 | ‘ But you ca n't effect changes overnight , ’ he adds , from the vantage point of 11 years with Oddbins . |
| 7 | But you ca n't do that with people . |
| 8 | I do n't deliberately put my face in the sun — but you ca n't help picking up a slight tan from reflected sunlight , particularly if , like me , you swim a lot . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , the injuries are worrying , but you ca n't lump them all together and blame artificial snow , ’ said Kasper . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ he says , ‘ but you ca n't kick against the breeze . |
| 11 | In my mind you can make up anything you want in your notebooks , but you ca n't call it fraud if it was n't published . |
| 12 | Suppose you are on drugs and you know what they are doing to your body but you ca n't break the habit . |
| 13 | ‘ But you ca n't just — ‘ |
| 14 | As bassist Derek Smalls ( aka Harry Sherer ) says , ‘ You can take the rock'n'roll out of the boys , but you ca n't take the boys out of rock'n'roll . ’ |
| 15 | But you ca n't just tell her what to wear . |
| 16 | ‘ Cute he ai n't , but you ca n't have it all . ’ |
| 17 | Haas was a very great editor and made important restorations ; but you ca n't always go back to Bruckner 's first ideas — the first version of the Eighth Symphony , for example , where the first movement ends with a fortissimo coda . |
| 18 | ‘ I say living well is the best revenge , but you ca n't do that unless you get angry and go forward . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ But you ca n't believe things which are impossible , ’ said Alice . |
| 20 | ‘ people are always scared of what they do n't understand , but you ca n't stop progress , can you ? |
| 21 | I prefer bigger boobs , myself , but you ca n't have everything . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ So you say , but you ca n't describe it . ’ |
| 23 | I know you 're unhappy , but you ca n't sit indoors and brood about it all day . ’ |
| 24 | Of course he 's worth a lot of money , but you ca n't wrap him up in cotton wool . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I dare say it has , old man , but you ca n't do that sort of thing without asking the others , can you ? ’ |
| 26 | It 's rather like a computer when the disc goes wrong — you know the info is there but you ca n't tap into it . |
| 27 | Things would have been pleasanter if the weather had been more summery , but you ca n't have everything and in England one gets accustomed to wet and windy summers . |
| 28 | My only quibble was the lack of colour , but you ca n't have everything . |
| 29 | But you ca n't love words without appreciating these aspects , and it would be a more civilised world if more of those who have to use words extensively in their work did love them . |
| 30 | And I think the regret comes because they wanted everything … but you ca n't expect to have everything at once . ’ |