Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] not [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Material sent to them should not exceed 100 words . |
| 2 | And he thought , I must n't have these thoughts , I have no status here , I have n't even got the right to be jealous ! |
| 3 | I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman thinks that I should not have such occasions with business men . |
| 4 | I should n't think many men would have dared to have written it was all her then , in the first person |
| 5 | I should n't say these things I s I know but |
| 6 | I thought I should n't ask any questions until you … ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll not miss ferocious plants , bits of hard sky and angry seas . |
| 8 | School started at about 8.30 till about 3.30 and I could n't miss any lessons . |
| 9 | ‘ Before my operation I could n't walk 30 yards and now I can work full-time and play 30 holes of golf , ’ he said . |
| 10 | And at that time he wrote in a letter , ‘ In these concerts I could n't make enough slowings and accelerations . ’ |
| 11 | And I felt I could n't design rational experiments without having some type of criteria to judge the results against ; otherwise I would n't be able to see where I was going . |
| 12 | And she did n't like going out with me any more because of the way they all stared at me anyhow , I could n't go most places looking like this , could I ? |
| 13 | Dad I wish I was you , laughing at the bar beach come here , misguided crew I could n't handle those things because I come in say this is my ca n't stand my brother boy |
| 14 | ‘ There is no reason why I could n't unlock 45 flats for homeless people for nine or 10 months . |
| 15 | ‘ I could n't give two monkeys , ’ he said , making ballet leaps out of sight behind the Land Rover . |
| 16 | What 's worse , although one might start with some hunches in a mammalian brain , the anatomy of the chick brain is very different from that of mammals , and even now not well mapped , so I could n't afford inspired guesses derived from mammalian expectations — chickens hardly have anything worth calling a hippocampus , for example . |
| 17 | I know I know everybody will be disappointed but I could n't get cardboard ones , stick it all in . |
| 18 | I could n't get this weeks ' |
| 19 | ‘ I could n't run five metres . ’ |
| 20 | What a sad creature I 'd be if I could n't promise future children black , peaty lochans full of newts , hillsides teeming with deer , hares and stoats and skies full of soaring majestic birds . |
| 21 | However , due to a lack of refinements such as a truss rod , the neck was so warped that I could n't put any frets on it , and so I was introduced to the world of fretless bass at an early age … ’ |
| 22 | I could n't accept any favours from you or waste money unnecessarily . |
| 23 | By this time I was convinced that nothing could work and that I would have to spend the rest of my life obsessed with food , hating my body , eating every day to the point of pain , and desperately frightened if I could n't find any laxatives or make myself sick . |
| 24 | I could n't see any mums about the place . |
| 25 | Well , in fact I did n't know , not for certain , but I could n't see any signs at all of brassière straps or elastic waistbands which I had n't been able to help noticing on all other women . |
| 26 | I could n't see any clothes about anywhere . |
| 27 | I could n't see any indications of it . |
| 28 | I could not do two things at once . |
| 29 | I would find it very hard to follow gut feel if I could not put forward arguments on two sides of a sheet of paper as to why it was the right decision . |
| 30 | I could not ask further questions . |