Example sentences of "i [modal v] not [vb infin] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McCallan said : ‘ I may not have been in the game a lot until I got my goal , but that made it up for it . ’ |
| 2 | I should n't have been in his study in the first place . |
| 3 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 4 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 5 | But the whole point of Pam being there , my being fostered , was if I could n't cope was for her to take over . |
| 6 | But then , I 'm so lazy with this band I could n't imagine being in two bands at once . |
| 7 | Save for this fluke I could not have been in the position in which I now found myself . |
| 8 | If it had n't been a yorker I 'd have looked an absolute idiot , I would n't have been in the same street , let alone cricket ground . |
| 9 | ‘ When Gary Fleming got injured I was considering putting Pat on and I would n't have been in the slightest bit worried , ’ he stated . |
| 10 | Fortunately the incident took place during the school holidays , otherwise I would not have been in the garden later in the morning , when a cock started crowing . |
| 11 | For a band now irritated by most dance music — ‘ most of it 's cack , I hate going into bars where they 've got it blaring out from everywhere , you ca n't hear yourself think ’ — and uncomfortable with the accoutrements of clubbing — ‘ I ca n't stand being under strobes no more , do me head in , make me lose my balance ’ — it was inevitable the Mondays would rake up their rock roots , ‘ mature ’ their sound and make a major musical transition . |
| 12 | But I ca n't imagine being without her , so I do n't really regret it . " |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't imagine being like that , when I 'm old . ’ |