Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] not [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he says : ‘ When the chips drop , when I get out , I may not even want to box again . |
| 2 | I may not even hook a fish , for the disturbance of retrieving a float through such shallow water , so close to the fish , would be sure to scare them . |
| 3 | And I must not only sit here and endure all this I must read her account of it at the end of the day , and think of something polite to say about it before I find ways of rewriting and neutralizing it . |
| 4 | However , I should not automatically assume that all these pieces represent a choral distillation of the ‘ green pastures and meadows ’ style of English composition . |
| 5 | I was told on more than one occasion , that I should not really let outsiders see this sort of thing , even though it was agreed that what I had written was an accurate analysis of events . |
| 6 | Could my fondness have kept you steady I should not now appear before you in this solemn manner . |
| 7 | Well , I might not just want it there . |
| 8 | It would n't enter his head that I might not just kill Vecchi out of hand . |
| 9 | If it 's a meeting , I might not even put that in at all . |
| 10 | I 've got all the countries blanks might not oh I might not even have the countries on but if you had blanks you could put countries in , that 'll be easier than |
| 11 | I might not even know what " living creature means . |
| 12 | Yeah , I might not even get it bu |
| 13 | in fact I might not even need to vacuum the floor , need I ? , if I pick that bit of paper up off there |
| 14 | And anyhow , ’ he ended with a trace of a grin , ‘ even though I was n't admitting the power you had over me , I think that even then I subconsciously did n't want you driving off anywhere where I might not easily find you . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ And if you had n't interfered and ruined my life I might not now have my career in ruins ! |
| 16 | Well I 'll have to get hold of your address and I 'll send you a birthday card but I might not actually send you a real birthday card , I 'll probably send you like a piece of paper saying happy birthday or something . |
| 17 | And what I 'll do is , I 'll not only pack my Christmas presents into that . |
| 18 | I said to the bloke I 'll not bloody pay . |
| 19 | A refusal in such circumstances may well not reflect my employer 's true feelings on the matter , but once having sustained such a dismissal , I could not easily bring it up again . |
| 20 | My free wing hung from the pole for I could not easily close it without terrible pain ; my eyes were fixed on them . |
| 21 | But my hand had stopped bleeding some time ago and I could not reasonably pretend that I was wounded . |
| 22 | Thy even asked how those outside the group felt and I answered that since I could not even think of anyone in the Church who contributed nothing I could not possibly answer the question . |
| 23 | They asked me personal questions that I could not even repeat here today . |
| 24 | I could not even give instructions to a painter . |
| 25 | I could not even speak . |
| 26 | I could not even see as far as the mouth of the burn . |
| 27 | Now I could not even write my own poems to my satisfaction : I felt crippled . |
| 28 | One thing was clear in the confusion-that I could not even let myself think about the matter unless my physical health was up to it . |
| 29 | I could not even say a prayer . |
| 30 | Statements , questions like a torrent , that I could not even begin to stem . |