Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] of a single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I can not think of a single occasion over the years , my adulthood when I have been going to theatre arts events of any kind when I 've actually gone out and bought anything as a result of sponsorship of a programme I 've been looking at . |
| 2 | Isabel could not think of a single thing to say . |
| 3 | I could not think of a single thing that Quigley had ever done for me . |
| 4 | The Gallup survey , commissioned by the Daily Telegraph , also found that more than a third could not think of a single thing about Britain of which to be proud . |
| 5 | She infers that using such forms means ‘ absence of cognitive flexibility ’ and quotes the studies by Bereiter and others ( Osborn , 1967 ) of lower-class children who , it is argued , ‘ can not conceive of a single object having two attributes ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 6 | I ca n't think of a single occasion in which this might come in handy . |
| 7 | I could n't think of a single thing to say , but dimly realized that I now had my role for the evening ; I had done nothing to bring this off ; but I was to be the identifiable face of the campaign . |
| 8 | ‘ Since you ask me sir I ca n't think of a single reason — oh except … my voice is trained . ’ |