Example sentences of "you [modal v] [not/n't] [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't have an overdraft and you may not even have a bank account . |
| 2 | ‘ If you stay here a bit longer , ’ Tremayne said , ‘ and if you ride schooling satisfactorily , I do n't see why you should n't eventually have a mount in an amateur race , if you put your mind to it . ’ |
| 3 | By doing so you 'll not only find a copy of the best C64 games mag in the known universe on your doormat every month , you 'll also be able to avoid all those nasty lager-swilling thugs on the way to the shops . |
| 4 | You could not really beat a Human 's skin . |
| 5 | Women who preferred who preferred traditional methods of sanitary protection either had to stand in long queues in order to buy just one or two towels you could n't even buy a packet , you could just buy one or two or make do with other methods . |
| 6 | You could n't even hear a gun go off next door . |
| 7 | He referred to a dinner given in honour of A. R. Orage , the retiring editor whom Philip Mairet was to replace , which was of inordinate length and at which there were interminable speeches , and where — this was represented as the ultimate horror , uttered in the tones of a cri de coeur — ‘ you could n't even get a drink ! ’ |
| 8 | You could n't even fill a phone box . |
| 9 | Enoch Powell derided the bill as an absurdity : you could n't just invent a second chamber . |
| 10 | The heat surge grill thing in the car had broken and you could n't just buy a n individual switch you er had to buy the whole thing and it was |
| 11 | It is i i I I we have a wide range of changes that would flow out from that so you could n't just take a change to Cornwall which would then create an oversized Devon seat , I quite accept that and we 've argued from the first that this would have to be part of the review as a whole . |
| 12 | I mean if , if you live on your own you ca n't even peel a potato |
| 13 | You ca n't even take a crap without one of us knowing all about it . ’ |
| 14 | You ca n't even get a compromise really round here in that you 've got ta have one or the other . |
| 15 | And you ca n't even have a bloody free Dinky car . |
| 16 | See you ca n't even have a civilized con |
| 17 | ‘ You ca n't just make a performance of everything you have seen . |
| 18 | ‘ At the same time , you ca n't just give a heap of numbers . |
| 19 | ‘ You ca n't just rent a villa or a flat overlooking the Med and install yourself for a peppercorn rent like people used to . |
| 20 | " You ca n't just threaten a man like that , " the ex-soldier said . |
| 21 | ‘ You ca n't just dig a hole and bury them . |
| 22 | Obviously you ca n't just take a vocal line from some traditional Japanese album and put it straight into a heavy metal song because it 's not going to work ! |
| 23 | You ca n't just put a speed hump down everywhere . |
| 24 | ‘ I did n't know Alex well but you ca n't not know a lad who lives in the same street . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You must have so much to talk about that you ca n't possibly want a stranger , ’ said Julia . |
| 26 | ‘ You ca n't possibly bring a woman along . |
| 27 | I do n't like those very specialist audiences , the kind that you get at festivals , where you ca n't possibly play a Scott Joplin encore , in case you offend someone . |
| 28 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 29 | I play in all types of weather and very few people play tennis anyway so you ca n't always get a game . |
| 30 | I think that you ca n't really make a decision until you have that literature , you ca n't . |