Example sentences of "i [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 . |