Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb mod] not [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I can not give a date , we intend to proceed just as soon as we can resolve the question of the contract . |
| 2 | Work is now in progress , although I can not give an exact date for its completion . |
| 3 | Unless there were special factors involved and although I can not recall a situation where we 've paid for a person to go into that 's for members to discuss , not me , but we have certainly paid an enhanced rate where somebody wanted to go to live near their daughter who was in and we felt that was a legitimate reason for paying a higher rate and , and , and we did do so , so there are other types of flexibility . |
| 4 | Exactly the same applies to applying columns to the text , although I can not find a way of having mixed numbers of columns without using frames — much like every DTP package I 've come across , as it happens . |
| 5 | I tried to start the engine but the airman on the starter battery trailer had fled so I could not do a thing except huddle in the cockpit , waiting for the sensation of being hit . |
| 6 | It must go to trial , so I will not grant an injunction ’ , as he may conclude , ‘ so I will grant an injunction ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ If I may not die a king I shall die like a gentleman ’ , he reflected . |
| 8 | ‘ I find life so boring if I can not enjoy a drink , ’ he said . |
| 9 | I have read of a good bishop that was to be burnt for his religion ; and he tried how he could bear it , by putting his fingers into the lighted candle : so I t' other day tried , when Rachel 's back was turned , if I could not scour a pewter plate she had begun . |
| 10 | ‘ I must go , clearly , because I can not defend a policy I candidly dislike , ’ he wrote on 4 November , having already told Sir Walter Monckton , the Paymaster General , on 1 November that ‘ I felt I might have to resign as I thought the policy bad and disastrous . ’ |
| 11 | Because I can not find a fucking man . |
| 12 | An aquarium only became necessary when I could not put a name to even some of the commoner intertidal fish , in the short time that the tide was out . |
| 13 | This , when I can not find a word . |
| 14 | At the moment I have to knit the clothes by hand as I can not find a machine knitting pattern for a 12″ doll ( it is not a teenage doll ) anywhere . |
| 15 | As I can not afford a new diesel engine I am considering an old slogger Perkins 4,236 . |
| 16 | But if it 's a lie , then you 'll end your days as an old maid , Ann , for I 'll not marry a liar , and no other man will have you either , not while I 've aught to say about it . " |
| 17 | So I do not say , ‘ Believe me , for I can not tell a lie . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I do not think that will necessarily prolong the deliberations and the results will be available — the further recommendations and the analysis — within a year , though I would not nominate a month , ’ he said on BBC Radio 's World At One . |
| 19 | He deserves separate attention , though I shall not attempt an exposition or interpretation of Derrida 's thought , which I am incompetent to undertake . |
| 20 | Though I 'd not advocate a lifestyle where |