Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] not [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mind was so wrapped round with skeins of my own distant past that I could n't immediately come to grips with the demands of the present . |
| 2 | I could n't even go to the toilet without her . |
| 3 | And I could n't even talk to you about them . |
| 4 | Andy 's a real mate he just kept saying straight heads er for all the times when I might have said oh , I could n't really talk to some people last night and he 'd say what you mean straight heads ? he 's right . |
| 5 | I could n't ever go to the police . |
| 6 | Neither of these stations are any use to me if my car is out of action , however , because I could not possibly walk to them . |
| 7 | I could not possibly go to another doctor . |
| 8 | I would n't even go to limbo , Bernard , because I know about Him and have n't converted : I 'll have to go to hell . |
| 9 | ‘ I would n't just go to India . |
| 10 | So I would n't necessarily talk to them about conditions in the flats . |
| 11 | I would n't really talk to them anyway , but sometimes you needed to talk to somebody , or to sort something out . |
| 12 | told that it has changed , but at that time , and I know my feeling was left that if I was raped I would n't never go to the police . |
| 13 | Nor do I try to get in touch with Lord Mountbatten , and I would not necessarily want to . |
| 14 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 15 | seven thousand seven tho , seven now I ca n't even stretch to ! |
| 16 | ‘ I ca n't really afford to , but what the hell ! ’ |
| 17 | I think the problem with a clear remit I ca n't really come to terms with that , precisely , competitive . |
| 18 | I shall not really want to . |
| 19 | I mean I wo n't even talk to myself am I ? |
| 20 | I wo n't even agree to having you partnering me at all these functions I have to attend as part of the job — and I 'll take whatever trouble you try to make for me — if you carry on treating me as you have been doing . |
| 21 | ‘ I wo n't ever go to church again . |
| 22 | Still , if you knew the pressure on beds here during the Festival you would be glad not to be in a tent in the gardens — often the fate of the young I do not , however , anticipate being away , as I can not really afford to be ( either literally £££ ) or away from job search which gets daily more depressing . |
| 23 | I can not really add to the answer that I gave the hon. Member for Birmingham , Erdington ( Mr. Corbett ) . |
| 24 | I can not possibly explain to a lay audience the techniques I used to study these genes — although I can tell you they involved the use of a type of radio microscope , and considerable extremely complex computer work — the programming alone involved almost a year 's work . |
| 25 | First , the Common Good' is held to be an illusory concept , which in practice is rarely used to refer to any aim that can fairly be called ‘ common ’ and which might not even refer to a good' at all ; pursuit of ‘ the Common Good ’ is therefore not useful as an identifying objective of democracy , and Schumpeter prefers to identify democracy not by its objectives but as a method . |
| 26 | Typically subjects either described at length one feature of interest ignoring all others , or else they gave several brief cryptic comments which could not unambiguously assigned to particular objects in the film . |
| 27 | The profane word elohim ( which need not necessarily refer to Yahweh ) is now used to describe Saul 's fits of mania and ecstasy . |
| 28 | Also , Mrs Valerie Riches will speak on the content of many of the sex-education programmes used in British schools , which in practice offer only a moral sexual instruction , and subject the young to ideas which would not normally occur to them . |
| 29 | Hospital staff rush here and there , tell them to wait , to walk down long forbidding corridors to see a doctor — whose name they have n't even been told — who may not even speak to them by name in a way they can understand . |
| 30 | The answers provided by the ECJ will influence the degree of tolerance extended to women who may not always wish to or may not be able to control their fertility and yet are capable of combining paid work and motherhood if given the chance |