Example sentences of "you [verb] n't [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you do n't be quick . |
| 2 | Executors we 've dealt with and expenses , alterations I 've just dealt with er Oh if you want to change you mind , and remember a will is only a piece of paper until you die , you can change your mind as often as you like I have made a will in the past Four wills in one year for one of my clients , his right he 's perfectly entitled to do that er and it 's better that you alter it frequently if your circumstances change than that you do n't be aware of how things go in the way that you do n't want them do . |
| 3 | What I mean is , that what I have to say to you , I would n't say if you had n't been one of the family . |
| 4 | If you had n't been consistent in laying them out like this , then you ca n't so quite confidently go round , go round erasing large chunks of the spreadsheet . |
| 5 | ‘ If you had n't been asleep all this time , you 'd know that we are nearly there . ’ |
| 6 | You told her you had n't been able to get her out of your mind and begged for another chance . |
| 7 | Well , you know , if you had n't been quick and run into me he could have caught up with you . |
| 8 | Similarly , if you had n't been lucky in the market , one lucky bet could send you home the richer by a season 's takings , if you could spot an outsider . |
| 9 | How might life have been different if you had n't been afraid ? |
| 10 | If you had n't been next door here , you 'd never have known . " |
| 11 | She said I 'm I 'm just ringing to tell you Joy that you did n't get you you have n't been successful with your application this time . |
| 12 | ‘ You must n't do too much , ’ said Lydia , misguidedly , as Betty took this for further evidence of her goodheartedness ; ‘ you have n't been well . ’ |
| 13 | and then go back over stuff that you 've done earlier that you have n't been able to understand where you 've felt , Ooh I do n't know what 's going on here . |
| 14 | ‘ You have n't been able to get anyone inside ? ’ |
| 15 | You 've both been working very hard — two of the best in the Khedive 's service — and you have n't been able to find anything . |
| 16 | ‘ You have n't been able to find a suitable match , ’ Lindsey put in quietly . |
| 17 | Yeah cos you have n't been able |
| 18 | you 've been overtired and you have n't been able to get to sleep very well . |
| 19 | Does n't it worry you that you have n't been able really to make an efficient crackdown here and your officers are still suffering attacks ? |
| 20 | She was still full of doubt as she said , ‘ You have n't been slow — you 've just been too busy weaving a net round yourself to keep the female species out of your life . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ So you have n't been unfaithful , is that what you 're saying ? |
| 22 | I think , because maybe you have n't been flexible at the outset , and all you 've ended up doing is scoring points off each other , |
| 23 | You have n't been foolish . |