Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] n't just [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She could n't just leave Steve in the lurch after all they had done to get the business together .
2 You could n't just use repeats and codas because he does n't really use them . ’
3 Y equals log X squared you ca n't just picture log X.
4 You ca n't just do things like that , on a whim . ’
5 ‘ Instead of negotiating a child will look at confrontation — but in real life you ca n't just zap people . ’
6 assume that if you give them a population that owned seventy eight percent of the land and find out fifty percent of the land , then you , you know , you ca n't just give land , everyone 's not just gon na have land , you have to increase production to make everyone better off .
7 So obviously if er if Mississippi wants some federal money for a project they 're not gon na get it unless there are civil rights provisions built into the , into the project that is , you know , you ca n't just give dole out to white people and refuse it to black people erm that there has to be equal opportunities and so on .
8 If you care about changing women 's lives you 've got to consider that Clare , you ca n't just throw Mrs Ramsay out — ’
9 You ca n't just pull ideas out of the air .
10 You ca n't just accept love and affection .
11 I mean , you ca n't just hammer households , and leave them , I mean , even , even , even like er ju ju the judiciary , the courts , they 've all got televisions in their pl I mean surely , and that 's Crown property , by the way .
12 You ca n't just let Henry be ill .
13 The company says you ca n't just sell technology alone to commercial accounts and its Fortune 500 and government customers have lots of PCs and Macs and a whole lot of character terminals .
14 You ca n't just use people like this though .
15 You ca n't just put things in the sky !
16 Well you ca n't just put numbers down can you ?
17 well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time
18 ‘ But Robyn , we ca n't just leave things … ’
19 Now , stumbling through the close packed trees in the patchy moonlight , Louise panted , ‘ Jim … what are we going to do ? … we ca n't just leave Brett back there with that monster . ’
20 they would n't just accept rent reductions from
21 And the fact he ca n't just accept things , he has to question things .
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