Example sentences of "that i [modal v] n't [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's just that I ca n't stand the slur on my grandmother 's memory . |
| 2 | Then her face changed and she told me something so terrible , so strange , so annihilating that I ca n't remember a word she said . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's what I 've wanted to do for a long time , so long that I ca n't remember a time when the name Tony Radcliffe did n't send me into a violent rage ! ’ |
| 4 | Anyway I got so carried away that I ca n't remember the game in detail so this report is crap , all I can remember is the Elland Road wall of noise and the fury of the Leeds attack once Batty was on the pitch . |
| 5 | The thing about Martina is — the thing about Marina is that I ca n't find a voice to summon her with . |
| 6 | The sorts of experiences that you then get people talking about is really well I 've learnt to stand up for myself for the first time , erm I now know what I want to do , I know who I am , erm projects where I 've been involved , where you get women saying things like well two years ago I would never have dreamt of going and talking to the Council about my house , or my children , or that I ca n't get a job because I ca n't get child care , and I would n't have dreamt of doing that and people who now say well now I can do that , I know that I can go and stand up for myself and stand up for what I think is right , just as well as my husband can . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I was hoping to do some digging , ’ said the Prince , ‘ but it 's so hard that I ca n't get the spade in . |
| 8 | ‘ But the ground 's so hard that I ca n't get the spade in . |
| 9 | mm , erm because I 've got to provide some , some answer before Christmas even if it , even if the answer is that I ca n't provide an answer |
| 10 | But having said that I ca n't see a job where you can just kind of swan in and you know and think about a million different things in one day or whatever . |
| 11 | One that I look a lot more like the Prime Minister wearing my reading glasses than the Prime Minister actually looks like the Prime Minister and two , the hidden benefits of wearing your reading glasses , group , here , is that I ca n't see a thing over there and for the first time in ten years I 'm gon na enjoy delivering a speech . |
| 12 | I just know that I would n't sacrifice the experiences I 've had on drugs for anything . ’ |
| 13 | That I would n't pursue the issues of nineteen eighty six . |
| 14 | Had Freda on the phone this morning but I told her that I would n't doing the . |
| 15 | ‘ But with Barney being so ill , and with Cara being so upset , it made it seem awful that I would n't spend an hour of my life doing this one big thing for her . ’ |
| 16 | I cradled the gun in my arms and set off at Emergency Speed , hurtling down the path back to the island at maximum , trusting to luck and adrenalin that I would n't put a foot wrong and end up lying gasping in the grass with a multiple fracture of the femur . |
| 17 | And when I told him , later , that I would n't mind a bit of the other , he said he had a headache ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Steve McQueen was evidently a bit worried that I would n't get the accent right and , just before my big scene , he came up to me and spoke to me about it . |
| 19 | By this time , the pub is so stuffed with people that I dare n't take a deep breath . |
| 20 | Erm he come in about that so we wrote a letter saying that I wo n't do the job for ninety pound , but I 'll stick to the original |
| 21 | Erm , I hope that I wo n't detain the council for too long , I 'm sure that this motion er wo n't be controversial . |
| 22 | They did n't know what he was so excited about , and his father was disgusted to find that I could n't draw a footballer ( an unKerridgean species ) . |
| 23 | I 'd told him before that I could n't sing a note but he 'd obviously ignored it . |
| 24 | It was hard to explain to a youngster who was bright but not particularly well educated that I could n't make a nerve work . |
| 25 | On a more personal level , Riley has said : ‘ The game is the same but the stakes are higher for women – – You need time to reflect , you are alone essentially , and I knew that I could n't give the time and thought to bringing up children or caring for another person on an intimate level . |
| 26 | The next few gybes were the first I had ever done with speed all the way through the turn , in fact , it happened so quickly that I could n't change the rig fast enough — so then I had to work on the rig change . |
| 27 | I feel that it was actually so quick — not at all what I 'd been led to expect from antenatal classes — that I could n't savour the birth or get used to the idea . |
| 28 | Perhaps I could have freeclimbed it , but the problem was that I could n't predict the pockets and I would n't have found out until it was too late to avoid a monster fall . |
| 29 | I moved up to there , and I want to bring everybody up to my new level , so I sort of drag everybody up , but I always thought it was just the , the inertia effect , you know , that I could n't have a mental and physical and moral energy to last everybody out wh , while they would change effectively . |
| 30 | But , after seeing Thoroughly Modern Millie , I honestly felt that I could n't take a whole movie in which Carol was in practically every scene . |