Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] that " in BNC.
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1 | However , I should not automatically assume that all these pieces represent a choral distillation of the ‘ green pastures and meadows ’ style of English composition . |
2 | I could n't even pretend that I wanted them ! |
3 | I could n't even afford that because I have n't worked , even enough on my AVCs |
4 | I could n't quite believe that this was the same Steffi that I had read about in Tennis World and that she was actually there . |
5 | But my hand had stopped bleeding some time ago and I could not reasonably pretend that I was wounded . |
6 | I could not quite believe that heaven existed , and I held tightly to Helen . |
7 | I , I would n't honestly say that it , he did it deliberately to be honest . |
8 | I ca n't honestly believe that anyone can question whether or not Wilko should be manager . |
9 | I think that the point , has to be made that when we 've had a transport supplementary grant decision and settlement as poor as this one , then it really is about trying to protect and enhance the people of Lincolnshire and the road network , rather than just for once , party politics , because I ca n't honestly believe that the conservatives would actually , feel that this is a fair , reasonable settlement . |
10 | I ca n't honestly say that up to now I 've thought that much about it . |
11 | I ca n't honestly say that it 's been a pleasure , but it has been an experience … one I most definitely do n't want to repeat ! ’ |
12 | Burt Rutan is characteristically coy about his involvement , pointing out that many projects undertaken by his Scaled Composites company are ‘ proprietary ’ and adding : ‘ I ca n't even confirm that he ( Togo ) is a customer . ’ |
13 | I ca n't even see that the casting of renowned character actor Robert Duvall as newspaper tycoon Joseph Pulitzer or teen heart-throb Christian Bale as spirited Jack Kelly leader of the warring newsboys is going to help this dud . |
14 | ‘ I ca n't really answer that until we see what we find when we get him on the table . |
15 | One psychotherapist commented : ‘ Sex for singles sounds good and I wo n't even say that it is not sometimes , but I hear the other side when people talk to me . |
16 | ‘ I can not honestly see that a system which would require us to compromise the morning after the election is really so morally inferior to a system which has already obliged us to compromise our policies two years before polling day . ’ |
17 | But I can not honestly say that I find such an analysis applicable to my attitude towards the school authorities . |
18 | I can not properly order that the children be returned to the care and control of the petitioner when the respondent has equal rights to the child . |
19 | I do n't think I have been fooled by artefacts , or overinterpreted my findings , though it is obvious even to me , let alone a critical outsider , that in fitting the data within a temporal cascade I have not formally proved all the necessary biochemical links ; some of my arguments have run dangerously close to the classical trap of assuming that post hoc implies propter hoc ; just because the phosphorylation step precedes the glycoprotein synthesis I can not automatically assume that the latter depends upon the former . |
20 | Before I ever had healing I was told that I might feel tingling or warmth , but alas , I can not truthfully say that I ever felt either , although of course , with hands laid on you , or just above you , there must be the sensation of touch . |
21 | I can not truthfully say that my work experience directly influenced my ambitions career wise but it did show me that the music business is not about ‘ Top of the Pops ’ but about a day 's work to be proud of . |
22 | It would be possible to have a society in which it was everyone 's personal rule to refuse all help to the needy , but as someone who might be needy myself I can not truly will that all should turn their back upon me in such a situation . |
23 | An abatement of reverence and forelock touching is all to the good , and I can not really think that doctors should be denied their fair share of human fallibility . |
24 | But I can not then say that the real source of electricity is the socket upon the wall . |
25 | I can not therefore deny that in this context a settled and preponderant public demand ought to be taken into account or that at a certain point it would have to prevail . |
26 | But besides that there 's a lot of other influences that come into it , and you must n't ever forget that it 's a song you 're playing — to me , that has absolutely everything to do with what notes you 're playing . |
27 | Yes , it 's very important to remember that both in , from this direct point of view and from Freud 's findings , you should n't just assume that it was a watertight compartment between two areas , as it were . |
28 | I know , I know , I know I should n't be angry cos it 's not , you know , obviously you 're not gon na think every time someone says they fancy you you 're not gon na think oh God he 's lying , there 's no reason , you should n't ever think that I mean what they 're doing now is just making you into a paranoid wreck . |
29 | You might not even notice that an evening breeze |
30 | Her dislike of being alone after dark had certainly diminished as the weeks went by , but she could not honestly say that she was completely carefree . |