Example sentences of "[not/n't] [conj] i could " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the third day Susan received a letter from him in which he explained that he was in a clinic for marioc addicts , ‘ Not that I could be called an addict , ’ he wrote , ‘ and this place is more of a health farm , really . ’ |
| 2 | Not that I could see anything when I arrived — it was covered in cloud . |
| 3 | ‘ Not that I could see . |
| 4 | ‘ Not that I could see . ’ |
| 5 | Not that I could ever do anything with Nelly , she 's soft as they come and bone-idle . |
| 6 | ‘ Not that I could see . ’ |
| 7 | Not that I could n't ring you any time while they 're here , ’ she added hurriedly , as if feeling guilty of being underhand while her parents were out of the way . |
| 8 | Course , as a kid you do n't think of that , but there was never was a father there or something so not that I could ever remember so that , that was the fire crackling . |
| 9 | Not that I could do anything but I would n't |
| 10 | ‘ Not unless I could shake him . ’ |
| 11 | Not because I could n't have had a holiday only that er we had loads of milk so we had to go and fetch it from the farms and you got ta have somebody to take it out . |
| 12 | and she said my sister spends I mean , we 're now talking about nineteen seventy my sister spends twelve and six a week on things from for the house on the hire purchase if she ever truly runs into debt she 'll save part of the cost of the thing , you know and then she knows that she 's always going to have to put twelve and six a week aside but she does that and buys things for the house and you see if you 've got if you 've got that little bit of extra coming in it 's quite well it 's like my lodgers , Brenda if I could n't if I could n't get what I need from my lodgers well Neil pays me Neil 's house rent which thirty pound a week |
| 13 | He pretended he was n't but I could tell . |
| 14 | I knew I should n't but I could n't help it . |