Example sentences of "you can [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No you ca n't Paul ! |
| 2 | ‘ A major misconception is to treat IT as a department but you ca n't hive it off , it has to pervade an organisation and be built into marketing , sales , finance , production and so on . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You ca n't pussyfoot around with children 's welfare . ’ |
| 4 | Most women in London work on the theory that if you ca n't microwave it , only the ethnic minorities can cook it . |
| 5 | No you ca n't window . |
| 6 | You ca n't Lisa ! |
| 7 | I 'm glad you ca n't Ruth |
| 8 | Hope you ca n't lip read ! |
| 9 | I ca n't turn them , mind you ca n't dilly dally |
| 10 | ‘ You ca n't buck fate . ’ |
| 11 | But remember it was Mrs Thatcher , who when she was arguing against the er European Monetary System , said you ca n't buck the markets , and ultimately that is true , or at least more precisely , you can only buck them at a cost , you can only buck it by buying or selling pounds , which messes up your money supply , or raising or lowering your interest rates at a time when you might not be wanting to do so . |
| 12 | we 've got the fencing well no , no you ca n't Jane because you 're not insured you see until |
| 13 | You ca n't Kyle ! |
| 14 | But you ca n't Mr Mallards , can you ? |
| 15 | ‘ The attitude should be : ‘ If you ca n't win do n't play ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , but you ca n't dice about like that , ’ Joanna said boldly . |
| 17 | You may be fit and fast but if you ca n't scrummage or drive a lineout , they you 're no good to anyone . |
| 18 | Erm , you 've got that to tend with and erm on top of that erm , you ca n't ware of if you 've got a pass yes , I , you 've then have to er , get , you know , whether though it 'll be going to a and at the moment there suppose to be very , very low so they ca n't do that any more and then you 'll have to , the vet will then do the treatment for the animal , but again you do n't get the vet you 'll only get the training vet 's to do the job and then they reclaim from the R S P C A , so it , no way that they have n't got any funds . |
| 19 | You ca n't darling , do n't you start being angry . |
| 20 | You ca n't rubble at a line . |
| 21 | you ca n't Brian ! |
| 22 | It 's the same thing every day ; you ca n't sort of say you 're not going to do it , because you 've got to do it — like preparing a meal : it 's got to be done because if you do n't do it , the children would n't eat … |
| 23 | you ca n't sort of |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | You ca n't sort of say — well , I know some people do — but I ca n't say ‘ I wo n't pay that bill because I 've got to buy some food . ’ |
| 26 | Well I mean you could do a bit of both , I do n't see why you ca n't sort of start out with some general stuff about whether |
| 27 | You know , and he 'd got you , you ca n't sort of say , do n't ever be in touch with me or do n't ever or do n't ever |
| 28 | Well no , you have to scarify it and then you have to you have to carry on the work , you ca n't sort of do it and then think , ooh I 'll leave it for a couple of months . |
| 29 | Cos people , I mean now I mean you ca n't sort of even think about that till mid January or later . |
| 30 | You ca n't sort of like you wan na put shelves up and do things to the house , that 's what keeps her going , wan na put the rent up it 's got a lot of disadvantages . |