Example sentences of "i [modal v] not [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must n't go to pieces , she whispered , tomorrow I 'll be brave , and ask Ricky round for a drink . |
| 2 | ‘ Mrs Peterson says I must n't talk to thee . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He said he 'd buy me a Pepsi and I said you said I must n't talk to strangers , and I came away . ’ |
| 4 | So I must n't get to bed too late . |
| 5 | The fact that it will rain tomorrow , for example , may mean that I should not go to London , even though the balance of reasons on the merits of my going ( i.e. all the reasons pro and con but the rain ) suggest that I should go . |
| 6 | Und the money , Alice — I should not say to you this — it walks away from him … ’ |
| 7 | If that is support for an industry , I should not like to be part of an industry that the Government were against . |
| 8 | I should not yield to theirs unless I see its point and come to agree with them . |
| 9 | He said I had probably done all I could ( little did he know ) , but that no one was omnipotent and I should not try to be for Jean-Claude what Maman had been — and still was , to some extent . |
| 10 | Anyway , I do n't see why I should n't talk to my own son if I choose . |
| 11 | I should n't talk to her if I were you . |
| 12 | It 's a bad time , admitted , there 's truth in that , but I should n't choose to be out of it . |
| 13 | And I should n't have to , ’ she added sharply . |
| 14 | ‘ I should n't like to be able to do that . ’ |
| 15 | I should n't say to anything to Miss cos we do n't know what she got . |
| 16 | ‘ Has n't it occurred to you , Skeeter , that I might not want to ? |
| 17 | Yeah , but I might not go to school tomorrow . |
| 18 | I thought we 'd been getting on pretty well but as Father 's Day approached , Joe made it clear that I could n't hope to be any more than just second best |
| 19 | ‘ And frankly , I could n't disappear to the West Indies and leave you all in this mess with the business . ’ |
| 20 | I could n't bear to be married if I had n't … ‘ |
| 21 | ‘ In the end I could n't bear to be anywhere else , ’ she said , and added that if such practices had been going on in the islands as were alleged , everyone would have known about them . |
| 22 | At the time I could n't bear to be parted from my new little owl . |
| 23 | I could n't bear to be in its thrall for another day . |
| 24 | He just nodded as if he did n't want to speak , and then at the bottom ( it was vanity , I could n't bear to be lumped with Caroline ) I said , I 'm sorry my aunt said that at Kenwood . |
| 25 | How could I have possibly explained without hurting you that I could n't bear to be near you , because you no longer felt like my mother ? |
| 26 | I 'ave n't been back to Tyler 's 'ard from that day to this — I could n't bear to . |
| 27 | ‘ I could n't bear to be separated from Jeff for three weeks . |
| 28 | And I could n't bear to be with women I did like because it reminded me forcibly that they did n't turn me on . ’ |
| 29 | I could n't dance to it . |
| 30 | I could n't dance to it . |