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Example sentences for "you cannot"

  • You cannot; perhaps it is good for her that you cannot.

  • If you have not felt it, Lyndall, you cannot understand it.

  • But the sloots are as full as rivers; you cannot go.

  • Even if it is shut," she said, in a whisper, "you cannot keep it out!

  • You cannot think of humiliating me by prancing along by my side on that magnificent charger.

  • You cannot be mistaken; there is but one.

  • And if you wish ever to leave my palace, you cannot; so make the best of it.

  • You cannot be saved by Jesus Christ and His Holy Spirit without seeing yourself, and you cannot see yourself without hating yourself, and you cannot begin to hate yourself without all your hatred henceforth turning against yourself.

  • You cannot conceive in your mind how stubborn and brainless they are.

  • Aylward," cried the knight, "pick your three trustiest archers, and see if you cannot do something to hinder their aim.

  • Nay, you cannot vex me," he answered, all warm again at the very sight of her.

  • You cannot imagine a more ignorant, intolerant, narrow-minded woman than she.

  • You cannot rise to a situation, Munro," said he.

  • You cannot imagine a more savage-looking creature than Cullingworth is when his temper goes wrong.

  • If your attention fails, and you miss a part of a lecture, it is lost; you cannot go back as you do upon a book.

  • Sir, you cannot be sure how a contest will end; and no man has a right to engage two people in a dispute by which their passions may be inflamed, and they may part with bitter resentment against each other.

  • He encouraged me by saying, 'You cannot go to the bottom of the subject; but all that you tell us will be new to us.

  • If you cannot get a real pilot on board, and put the helm into his hands, your ship is as good as a wreck.

  • If you can find such a man, your point is gained; if you cannot, lost.

  • If you cannot judge, it is that you do not wish to judge.

  • There is, monsieur, as you cannot fail to have observed, an evil spirit of insubordination in the air, and there is one only way in which to meet it.

  • You cannot realize, monsieur, what a blow would be dealt my uncle if.

  • You cannot be permitted to play fast-and-loose with a gentleman of M.

  • You cannot picture my uneasiness as to these conditions," he said.

  • I think I must be FEY to-day; you cannot irritate me even when you try.

  • My uncle, you cannot be in earnest," she said.

  • You cannot fail to recognise so marked a person.

  • You cannot get in at this hour," returned the man.

  • I am no childe, no babe, Your betters haue indur'd me say my minde, And if you cannot, best you stop your eares.

  • Speake cosin, or (if you cannot) stop his mouth with a kisse, and let not him speake neither Pedro.

  • You cannot beg vs sir, I can assure you sir, we know what we know: I hope sir three times thrice sir Ber.

  • Mrs. Gastrel said: "You cannot expect so young a child to know the meaning of such words.

  • No matter, you cannot get a habit-sodden Shakespearite to cipher-up his materials upon any other basis.

  • You cannot mean to seriously say there is no such frontier.

  • Because I have known you well, monsieur; you cannot repent of having drawn your sword for me.

  • You cannot deny, too, that every morning she tells you how indifferently she slept the previous night.

  • It is true," said the duke, "you cannot owe me a grudge any longer now.

  • Weep, then, weep, as you cannot give me a smile!

  • You can telephone with a telephone; you cannot do anything else with it.

  • You cannot have equality in a soap factory; so you cannot have it anywhere.

  • You cannot have comradeship in a wheat corner; so you cannot have it at all.

  • Do your part of the work, or you cannot succeed.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "you cannot" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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