Example sentences of "you [modal v] [not/n't] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ye would n't believe it , me that reads Playto like a scholar . |
| 2 | You may not realise it , but no matter how you clean you manage to keep your house , toxic chemicals and harmful gasses still lurk there . |
| 3 | You may not feel it in the shop , or on our first few runs . |
| 4 | You may not feel it at the moment because I 've blocked your mind from the pain . |
| 5 | You may not credit it , but what has happened is that the story has been retold , adjusted , updated ; it has shuffled nearer . |
| 6 | ‘ You may not think it , but I am quite a busy man . |
| 7 | Annabelle , you may not realize it , but you are gaining the advantage of marrying a man who has had the sharp corners rubbed off him . |
| 8 | Steven , you may not realize it , but you are gaining many advantages by marrying a mature woman . |
| 9 | Now , you may not realize it but you 've been in civil litigation and criminal litigation , you 've been doing advocacy all term . |
| 10 | ‘ You may not realize it , young man , ’ said Barrie , witheringly , ‘ but in so doing I was breaking the law . |
| 11 | You may not know it , but I have n't had a thing to eat since eight o'clock and it 's half-past two now . ’ |
| 12 | You may not know it , but by your emotion , I know . ’ |
| 13 | I wish you all the luck in the world — although I suspect that you may not need it . ’ |
| 14 | So far as the timber structure is concerned , you may not understand it , but it should look regular and well formed . |
| 15 | ‘ You may not understand it , gorgio , but she will . |
| 16 | I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms . |
| 17 | It also reminds you that if you do n't cut it expertly to obtain this effect , the professionals will , and you may not like it . |
| 18 | ‘ You may not like it , but it 's true , ’ he said . |
| 19 | You may not like it but under the new licences , ITV is mandated to be a popular channel that gets an audience , earns revenue and sustains business . |
| 20 | You may not like it . |
| 21 | You may not see it at the back there a lot stronger , okay . |
| 22 | ‘ Of course , if you get married now , ’ Aunt Lilian said , ‘ you may not find it so easy to get into politics . ’ |
| 23 | For example , if you choose to write an essay on the novel A Very Quiet Street by the contemporary Glasgow author Frank Kuppner , you may not find it easy to get any critical work either on the book itself or on this writer ( since no books may have been written about him ) . |
| 24 | You may not believe it , but yours is a privileged generation , For your grandparents , sex was a taboo subject , enclosed by walls of " Thou shall nots ' and compounded by ignorance . |
| 25 | Hunter ended his description with a comment on Maria and a hint as to his charges to Martin Van Butchell : ‘ This body … yet promises exceedingly well , nor do I see any great improvement to be made ; a number of experiments must be made before I embalm any other body , such as finding the exact proportion of moisture Paris Plaister will take up etc. but at present I know of no other Process at all useful and considering the trouble you must have during all these Processes now laid down , you ought not to undertake it under 100 Guineas . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You must n't show it , ’ Sophie said firmly . |
| 27 | I really thought it was going to be sort of ‘ You must not drink ever again' and ‘ You naughty boy , you must n't do it ever again' sort of thing . |
| 28 | Yeah but you must have it you must n't pass it on to anybody else . |
| 29 | You must n't spoil it . |
| 30 | But you must n't overdo it . |