Example sentences of "[adv] not [prep] the mood " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm just not in the mood . ’ |
| 3 | The dress is very nice but once I 've got it on I realize I 'm just not in the mood for it . |
| 4 | But even so , la last night I got my legs wet , and I just went , Oh , never again , I 'm just not in the mood . |
| 5 | 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 . |