Example sentences of "[modal v] n't [vb infin] that i have " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know how I do , I could n't remember that I 'd actually started the the Easter term doing the erm choices etcetera , I always thought it was the later half of that term , the latter half of that term . |
| 2 | Afterwards I could n't believe I had managed to say this ; I could n't believe that I 'd had the intelligence , the wit , the inspiration to come up with this perfect reply . |
| 3 | I did n't know what to say : I could n't believe that I 'd heard him correctly . |
| 4 | Feargal wo n't be here , so he need n't know that I have n't left yet . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I ca n't pretend that I have found it a burden of such onerousness that it has disturbed what I have needed to do in my company , ’ he commented this week . |
| 6 | But I ca n't feel that I have any more positive standing than that in the matter . ’ |
| 7 | No , I ca n't say that I had ; like many others I simply disliked the man . ’ |
| 8 | I ca n't say that I 've even found cases with definite pathology needing to dilute more . |
| 9 | I thought Alan Bowness , former director of the Tate , was a very good man , but I ca n't say that I 've known intimately very many of the museum people either in England or in the States . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , I ca n't say that I 've really earned this , ’ said John , taking a cup , ‘ but perhaps I can be forgiven my first day . |
| 11 | ‘ Ca n't say that I 've heard of it . ’ |