Example sentences of "that i [modal v] [not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You know very well that I ca n't give you that sort of information , ’ said Harris , his gravelly voice unusually gentle . |
| 2 | I accept that I ca n't marry you now that I 'm poor . |
| 3 | The thing is , I ca n't do the environment , well it 's not that I ca n't do it when I was talking to er to the tuto the form tutors yesterday er they 're biggest keen I think Catherine had happened to notice some work that Sandra had done that she found er , interesting enough and where the kids should be knowing about , it was about banking how to sign a cheque , how to look after finances erm you know , do I have to buy a pair of trainers because it 's got Reebok on them , this sort of thing . |
| 4 | The trouble is that I ca n't identify it and ca n't find it in my gardening books or in any of the books at my local library . |
| 5 | But it 's so far back in my mind that I ca n't reach it . |
| 6 | of course you 'll be aware that I ca n't grant you any of your wishes … why do you think I 'm always wearing RED & WHITE with a little BLACK trim ? ? ? ? |
| 7 | ‘ If I cry , he gets so angry that I ca n't bear it ’ , said another , ‘ and I go away and find somewhere by myself where I can go on crying ’ . |
| 8 | Tha , that I ca n't tell you ! |
| 9 | ‘ Well , you know that I ca n't tell you things like that . |
| 10 | When I asked her things like that , she did n't want to tell me on other occasions , she said I know that I ca n't tell you . |
| 11 | ‘ And I tell you frankly that I ca n't follow it , Adam . |
| 12 | From then on we became the best of friends , to the extent that I ca n't remember us having even one argument . ’ |
| 13 | I give it to my husband so that I ca n't sell it if money gets low ’ . |
| 14 | I give it to my husband so that I ca n't sell it if money gets low ’ . |
| 15 | There is an imbalance , and I feel that I ca n't allow it to go on . |
| 16 | David Howell did not remember his time in Cabinet with much pleasure — ‘ some arguments just left such acrimony and ill-feeling that I ca n't believe they really could have been enjoyable … |
| 17 | ‘ That I ca n't help you with , ’ said Pumfrey , his characteristic briskness now almost contemptuous . |
| 18 | I would argue with the author on the merits of the wing-down as opposed to the crab cross-wind landing techniques , and feel that he should have concentrated less on right-hand tractor American rotation engines , but other than that I ca n't fault him , and would class the book as absolutely required for anyone aspiring to be a tailwheel instructor . |
| 19 | ‘ It is n't that he has totally gone away , it 's just that I ca n't see him as I used to . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't seem to care very much , Myra , but you 're right — I do want the show to succeed ; so many people have worked so hard that I ca n't let them down . ’ |
| 21 | The strange thing is that I ca n't say I was unhappy in the Service , and generally speaking I enjoyed myself , even coming to realise as time went by that it was an experience I would hate to have missed — and yet , for years afterwards I used to have nightmares about my life in uniform . |
| 22 | So that I ca n't say I had any positive feelings in the first place , but the realisation that everybody else had negative feelings made me love him . |
| 23 | I want as many concise and informed references as you can find , but nothing so technical that I ca n't understand it . ’ |
| 24 | That is it John that 's it thing I , I mean the thing that I ca n't understand you 've , you 've always been |
| 25 | ‘ But I made a decision that I would not do it beyond the age of 35 , and then I would return to try to make a contribution . ’ |
| 26 | I am a little unhappy about this , because there seem to be such close resemblances between the two plates , that I would not wish them ever to be far apart . |
| 27 | ‘ As for me , I wished that I would not lose you . ’ |
| 28 | He almost pranced along the passage with his pet and I hoped fervently that I would not see them in there again . |
| 29 | I so much wanted her to ask that I would n't tell her . |
| 30 | She made me promise that I would n't tell you who I was until you said you loved me . |