Example sentences of "so you ca " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your gut can get infected , so you ca n't absorb the goodness in your food . |
| 2 | It 's sort of bandaged up so you ca n't see the skin . |
| 3 | The person who is writing it is at a meeting so you ca n't speak to him . ’ |
| 4 | You have to code the numbers of the athletes and they are supposed to be on the inside so you ca n't read them , but they were outside so you could — you could see which one was from Krabbe , Breuer and Moller . |
| 5 | The withdrawal of privileges is a very popular response by parents to non-compliance — for example : ‘ You 've been cheeky so I wo n't let you go out ’ ; ‘ You disobeyed me by going out on the road so you ca n't have that ice-cream . ’ |
| 6 | I ca n't find a large box so you ca n't come . |
| 7 | Part-time work , so you ca n't expect the same rates as fulltimers would get . |
| 8 | The lack of contouring presents no real disadvantage , though the lack of a ribcage cutaway means that the bass tilts slightly forward from the top , so you ca n't quite see where you are on the fretboard for occasional quick reference . |
| 9 | The table is too heavy to move , so you ca n't ram him into the wall with it , and there are no other weapons around . |
| 10 | I am low-status so you ca n't do anything to diminish me . |
| 11 | ‘ But then I 'd have been worried if they 'd been lethargic , so you ca n't have it all ways ! ’ |
| 12 | A baby 's skin is also thinner than yours , so you ca n't be too careful . |
| 13 | And their eating habits can be unpredictable so you ca n't always guarantee them a healthy diet . |
| 14 | Dance music changes fast , so you ca n't just stay the same , but the dance music audience has little patience with those who ca n't find a new trick that is just as magical as the old one . |
| 15 | because governments have to defend the country , so you ca n't believe promises parties out of power make to disarm ( justification of stated opinion ) ; |
| 16 | The floor is only ten inches square so you ca n't sit down or squat in it . |
| 17 | And three of the walls are made of cement with bits of broken glass sticking out all over , so you ca n't lean against them . |
| 18 | The box is screened so you ca n't see into it , giving the bird some privacy . |
| 19 | You ca n't get it through your skin — so you ca n't get it from touching someone with HIV . |
| 20 | I play in all types of weather and very few people play tennis anyway so you ca n't always get a game . |
| 21 | If the floor needs washing , okay , I wo n't wash it , but I know it needs washing and it 'll go on nagging me until I 've washed it — so you ca n't win really . |
| 22 | Most people were still using wooden ploughs er which , not only di is it much more difficult to cut the sod with a er wooden plough , but it also cuts only in to about half the depth of an iron plough so you ca n't sort of turn the soil over to anything like the same extent . |
| 23 | Now usually in the exams they work it so you ca n't do that cos they give you a graph already drawn and they 'll have sort of erm two squares is equal to one unit along the bottom but only one square equals one unit |
| 24 | S Time is not a decimal so you ca n't operate time as a decimal . |
| 25 | You 've done more than you thought you 'd ever get away with and so in a sense it 's all gain from here , in fact it 's been all gain for some time and so you ca n't complain and you do n't intend to if fate deserts you now . |
| 26 | You ca n't sleep you 're actually providing your own sleep deprivation and you say hey , next thing you know I really will be falling down the stairs ! but he does n't seem to get the joke and then it 's back to the cell and then the interview room with the barred , opaqued windows so you ca n't see out and they switch on the tape-machine recording everything as usual and it 's getting more bizarre ; they get me to do a Michael Caine voice ! |
| 27 | Sometimes you can get it , but they make it too expensive so you ca n't afford to buy it . |
| 28 | It 's not too tall , so you ca n't expect vast expansion potential — it has two 5.25-inch and one 3.5-inch free drive bays . |
| 29 | And the cellars were there , where the men used to be , but they 're all down now , y so you ca n't say anything about all that lot now . |
| 30 | And I 'll turn that over so you ca n't see that . |