Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] [that] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here he is , at the outset , reporting from Brussels : ‘ You must not imagine that I live richly here , for my chief food is dry bread and some potatoes or chestnuts which people here sell on the street corner , but by having a somewhat better room and by occasionally taking a somewhat better meal in a restaurant whenever I can afford it , I shall get on very well … . |
| 2 | Thus while we could take 123 as being about the Poet 's constancy to his Friend , even though we have neither Thou nor He form referring to the Friend ( ‘ No , Time , thou shalt not boast that I do change/ … |
| 3 | ‘ Even my good friend Shallot could not swear that I did not slip out of my chamber to commit this dreadful act . ’ |
| 4 | PAMELA : Indeed , sir , he could not say that I did . |
| 5 | I could not believe that I 'd been so stupid , or that such a simple mistake was about to have such dire consequences . |
| 6 | I could not believe that I had got my first job . |
| 7 | I hoped she would not discover that I had told Mr Edgar about her quarrel with Heathcliff . |
| 8 | Suzanne worries over it , she would not approve that I have told you . |
| 9 | Now apart from by taking land from the landlords which is pretty in unspecific , all of the others are , are s are straight , very moderate , very limited acquisitions and then if you go on where you 've got ta protect the middle peasant etcetera , then they are really very low key methods , you , you , you would not see that I think as being the return to land reform . |
| 10 | By then the subject-matter had enthralled me , and I shall not say that I felt more loving . |
| 11 | ‘ If I accept your hospitality , ’ he said , ‘ it will not mean that I forfeit my right to kanly . ’ |
| 12 | Of course I can be mistaken about the meanings of the words I use , but this will not show that I have any mistaken beliefs about my present sensory states . |
| 13 | At this distance in time , I can not pretend that I had my doubts about its merits : what I did dwell on was a certain psychological subtlety in retailing the author 's love-life , though in terms which today would he considered ludicrously niminy-piminy . |
| 14 | I can not believe that I 've cut up the dress he used to love me to wear and all I get for thanks is cheek . |
| 15 | ‘ I can not deny that I have had my troubles off the park , or that my mind was on other things for a while , but my head is down and I am concentrating on making a contribution to the team once again . |
| 16 | I can not deny that I find the reasoning of Wilson J. most attractive . |
| 17 | A fellow of mediocre talent will remain a mediocrity , whether he travels or not ; but one of superior talent ( which without impiety I can not deny that I possess ) will go to seed , if he always remains in the same place . |
| 18 | Looking back , I can not imagine that I understood the finer points of the contract M. Chaillot placed before me . |
| 19 | I can not say that I believe that that council necessarily represents the views of industry and commerce . |
| 20 | I can not say that I care for these self-perpetuating societies . ’ |
| 21 | " I can not say that I think of [ the causal determinist 's view ] as having any plausibility . |
| 22 | If the question be ( as , in the actual state of the law , I think it is ) , whether consideration is , or is not , given in a case of this kind , by the debtor who pays down part of the debt presently due from him , for a promise by the creditor to relinquish , after certain further payments on account , the residue of the debt , I can not say that I think consideration is given , in the sense which I have always understood that word as used in our law . |
| 23 | I can not remember that I minded this . |