Example sentences of "i [modal v] not [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who knows if I may not have need of you by to-morrow ? ’ |
| 2 | I must not give way to it , because it is so unlike me and quite causeless . |
| 3 | You 're to me as my own and I 'll not stand cheekiness from either . |
| 4 | ‘ But if they take 'er I swear I 'll not lose sight of 'er . |
| 5 | But even I could n't will wakefulness with complete success , and the events of those nights soon began to affect my day-time behaviour . |
| 6 | because I could n't speak English at all , I speak the , I could read a paper or a book , I du n no what is all about , but I used to get because you got on it for instant like mm |
| 7 | His lips moved , and some noises came out but I could n't make sense of them . |
| 8 | He said something and I could n't make sense of it |
| 9 | I could n't leave Elinor on her own . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I left here , telling myself I could n't be lady Anne 's companion 'cos I could n't leave mama on her own . |
| 11 | Oh I could n't eat chocolate in bed . |
| 12 | ‘ I went from feeling useless because I could n't get work to feeling defiant . |
| 13 | I could n't get hold of Desmond Ingard , then I remembered Andrew Stavanger , whom , I must say , I trusted a good deal more . |
| 14 | Yes yes of co of course I was , but i could n't get hold of Dr and I thought well we 're gon na have to try it this way anyway at some stage . |
| 15 | I could n't get hold of him yesterday ! |
| 16 | " But I could n't take responsibility for them , " Mr. Mendez said . |
| 17 | ’ At first I felt I could n't take care of my own life , ’ she says , remembering a rocky past with its broken marriage , drink and drugs . |
| 18 | er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't |
| 19 | I had to have a cast on it and I could n't play guitar at all in any fashion . |
| 20 | Well anyway it gets half way through this wood I could n't see couple of yards in front of me |
| 21 | As hard as I tried , I could not make use of the staff , so I carried it , hobbling like a stage imbecile . |
| 22 | I explained to the man that I could not carry cheese to my appointment but that I would be back another day . |
| 23 | It was the first time that someone close to me had died , and I could not imagine life without my sister , even if I had never loved her , or even thought about her recently . |
| 24 | ‘ Even if you were the last man on earth — I would n't make love to you , ’ she added bitterly . |
| 25 | ‘ Another reason for setting up my workshop near here was so that I would n't lose touch with my mother . ’ |
| 26 | In fact , whereas I would n't see art as a necessity , I would see the woman as a necessity . |
| 27 | Erm , yes Chairman , the , the suggestion of the recommendation if you like , that er , Reginald 's erm , proposal it is , er to participate is , is er , rejected by er , I do n't particularly feel that way about it , that erm , if , apart from the fact that the contribution is sizable , and I do n't think that we 'll get all that many applications from the Regional District Council anyway , but erm , I would n't see harm at all of both Oswestry and Bridgenorth being allowed to send a representative if there were any applications , it 'd be good for their area , er , and er , even if they were n't allowed to vote on it , and I suppose they should n't be allowed to vote on it , erm , I , I would see it as erm , another attempt , another avenue to , towards partnership between District Council and the County Council development . |
| 28 | ‘ I would n't recommend Tolby to anyone , ’ Henry said earnestly . |
| 29 | I would n't have sex without one now . |
| 30 | Well it 's not a yes yes for the garden because I would n't have room for it but it 's certainly a yes yes in my shelter delt because the birds love the berries and it really encourages them to use that shelter delt but it is n't as , as easy to grow , it 's , one tends to think of the nature plant as a tough plant but I 've been trying to establish about thirty of these in the shelter delt and I 've found they object to any form of total weedkiller round the root , so all the , the weedkillers that you would use for the first couple of years maybe to , to keep the , the weeds from growing round the stems , they tend to get chlorotic and die . |