Example sentences of "not [prep] the mood " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burden looked at him suspiciously , so he said with amused impatience , ‘ I do n't know , Mike , and I 'm not in the mood for this suspense stuff . ’ |
| 2 | You 're feeling very languid and lazy and not in the mood for ‘ keeping house ’ and barking at all-comers . |
| 3 | If she 's not in the mood she 'll say nothing all night . |
| 4 | They may not , for instance , be prepared to risk having any kind of emotional engagement ( I recently worked with a group of headteachers for whom this seemed to be a problem ) ; or they may not trust each other or the teacher ; or the ‘ hidden curriculum , of the group 's own dynamics may cut across the drama 's requirements ( for instance if the strong natural leader within the group is not given her usual leadership function within the fiction ) ; or the group may concentrate too hard on preparing material for ‘ showing ’ so that they miss out almost entirely on ‘ playing the drama game ’ ; or they may dislike drama or really want to perform a play or are simply not in the mood to submit to the experience . |
| 5 | Improve your mood and counteract stress : Ask anyone who exercises regularly and they will tell you that they always feel exhilarated at the end of a session — even if they had begun by feeling that they were not in the mood for exercise and had almost forced themselves to continue . |
| 6 | ‘ Cross-pollination is when the female flower is not in the mood . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm not in the mood . ’ |
| 8 | Often the reverse applies where the female , her ovipositor is fully extended , but he is not in the mood and chases her away . |
| 9 | Steve 's not in the mood to pull any punches … |
| 10 | This did not prove that you could n't use whatever it was , simply that you were not in the mood to knit successfully ! |
| 11 | But there was a simpler reason than that : his hunch told him he was not in the mood for it . |
| 12 | I have n't got to smoke pot , but I do and I think that 's more security than anything , knowing that you 've got a bit of pot which you can put down and you can say : ‘ Oh , I do n't want none of that today , I 'm not in the mood for it . ’ |
| 13 | Now come on , Liz , I 'm not in the mood for games . ’ |
| 14 | " I 'm not in the mood . " |
| 15 | ‘ Katherine 's not in the mood , are you , Kat ? ’ |
| 16 | There was a letter from Newton but he was not in the mood to read it . |
| 17 | I 've put a note on my door saying , ‘ If you 've got problems , please do n't come today because I 'm not in the mood . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm not in the mood , Stephen , ’ she said . |
| 19 | Not in the mood you 're in . |
| 20 | It was highly embarrassing , a sort of indelicacy , to stand on the platform surrounded by a crowd of males who had to be polite but were obviously not in the mood for feminine society . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm just not in the mood . ’ |
| 22 | And John-William , still distressingly short of breath , still tired out far too easily by any undue exertion , was not in the mood for domestic strife . |
| 23 | ‘ I have n't gone mad and I 'm not in the mood for explanations . |
| 24 | I 'm not in the mood for it . ’ |
| 25 | Do n't make any fuss — I 'm not in the mood . ’ |
| 26 | I 'm not in the mood . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm not in the mood for games , Leo , ’ she said shortly . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's nothing we have to say to each other , ’ she protested with irritation , ‘ and I 'm not in the mood for any more of your accusations . |
| 29 | She is not in the mood for gossip , unwilling to pass on her views of current films ( let people buy Outsider if they want to know the Rosenbloom line ) , and uncharacteristically indifferent to news of cheap Thai restaurants in Crouch End . |
| 30 | I 'm not in the mood for co-stars : this is meant to be a solo . |