Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] not [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 well I do n't know how they work it , but I should n't get a bad one , it should be okay , I mean my dad 's gon na give me money anyway , so , I mean if I , London City so Phil was saying one of the best in the country he says that , so hopefully if they , they give me an offer , the others should as well
2 ‘ I do n't see why I should n't enjoy a little privacy , since Adam invited me . ’
3 I 'll not call a formal divisional meeting , we had that on Wednesday .
4 I could n't stand a smelly cat tearin' me 'ome ter pieces , ’ she told him .
5 And I could n't tell a triple Axel from a double Salko in a million years , let alone perform one !
6 ‘ Well , I could n't give a damn how it looks to you ! ’ she retorted angrily .
7 I wanted one for er saying granddad one from the kids and I could n't get a decent one
8 I was split between boxing and football when I was 16 and , at one stage , I wanted to turn professional boxer and thought that , as I was on Norwich 's books and I could n't get a pro boxer 's licence till I was 17 , anyway , I 'd play football for twelve months and then steam into boxing [ he was a double ABA junior finalist ] .
9 I could n't buy a Christmas pudding , and I could n't buy a hot cross bun .
10 I could n't imagine a little car with a luxury big-car feel until I drove the Metro .
11 I could n't raise a dicky bird . ’
12 He knows how I feel , me being an only child … he 's a wonderful husband , I could n't have a better husband .
13 I could n't have a better head groom .
14 " I could n't have a worse offer if I lived to be a hundred .
15 I moved up to there , and I want to bring everybody up to my new level , so I sort of drag everybody up , but I always thought it was just the , the inertia effect , you know , that I could n't have a mental and physical and moral energy to last everybody out wh , while they would change effectively .
16 I could n't have a quick look through it , then ? ’ she said hopefully .
17 But , after seeing Thoroughly Modern Millie , I honestly felt that I could n't take a whole movie in which Carol was in practically every scene .
18 You see I could n't spend a hundred hours on a painting and only ask that amount of money .
19 As I stood and gazed at the now empty slit trenches , I could n't help a sinking feeling in my stomach as I pictured in my mind those who had occupied the trenches in this orchard , those who had been killed or seriously wounded .
20 I took it regularly and pored over it every week for two months , but search and phone as I might , I could n't find a decent barn owl .
21 I may not always be able to offer a Danby or a Holmes ( Holmes is available as I write ) , but I should be considerably embarrassed if I could n't find a good view of the Gorge for a departing new graduate or a returning old one .
22 But I could n't find a bloody buyer . ’ ’
23 I 'm sorry it 's been such a long journey , but I could n't find a quicker route .
24 And I said , or he said , I spent half an hour on the phone , trying to study , he said , she was from Ireland , he said , I could n't understand a bloody word she was saying .
25 I could n't see a fellow mortal suffer , ’ he said with a grin .
26 I could n't see a damn thing , ’ he said .
27 And one of the things that is happening and mortified when I first came to this company was I could n't see a straight line through .
28 I instinctively had a quick look but I could n't see a damned thing .
29 ( And yet I remember one morning — when confronted by a preliminary plate of very sour , very cold slices of orange I could not stop a few tears trickling miserably down my cheeks — a gruff voice coming from the other end of the table .
30 When the hon. Member for Gedling mentioned the Secretary of State being a great supporter of the pillars of local government , I could not avoid a little chuckle .
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