Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [vb mod] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a terrible , solitary kind of life , whereby I can not for instance have people with whom I can discuss my writing , unless I leave the country and meet people like Bessie Head , who died , or Buchi Emecheta and Ama Ata Aidoo . |
| 2 | And if you 're a er golfer er you might go to the professional and say you know I 'm miss I 'm hooking , you know , can you show me how I ca n't do this ? |
| 3 | ‘ You know how I ca n't stand to be fussed over . ’ |
| 4 | I mentioned that I missed my son and how I could n't see him . |
| 5 | Natasha 's father was there and was siding with my mother , saying how I could n't take Natasha , I was an unfit mother and how he was going to get me done . |
| 6 | ‘ whence I shall not return , even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death … without any order , and where the light is as darkness . ’ |
| 7 | I always used to , there was a time when I would n't dream of painting indoors . |
| 8 | According to my reckoning , I should have been giving my full and entire concentration to the final chapter of my work — a time when I would not , as Milada Pankracova knew , want any interruptions . |
| 9 | I 'll know when I ca n't sit in the blasted saddle . ’ |
| 10 | There may come a time when I ca n't find any new records that I like — and it 'll certainly be sad day if he ever does decide to hang up those headphones . |
| 11 | There may come a time when I ca n't find any new records that I like — and I certainly could n't fake it — but at the moment I relish people putting their hands round the door and saying , ‘ You call that music ? ! ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ But I felt less affection and respect for you when I said it then , than I do at this minute , when I ca n't honestly say it . |
| 13 | There may come a time when I ca n't find any new records that I like — and it 'll certainly be sad day if he ever does decide to hang up those headphones . |
| 14 | There may come a time when I ca n't find any new records that I like — and I certainly could n't fake it — but at the moment I relish people putting their hands round the door and saying , ‘ You call that music ? ! ’ . |
| 15 | My time is extremely valuable , and I am not going to be kept waiting here while people like patients take up five or 10 minutes when I shall not be earning at a rate that would put the salary of Members of Parliament to shame . |
| 16 | ‘ There will come a time when I wo n't feel the need to make any music , ’ Waits 's says . |
| 17 | Just one day when I 'll not be dictated to by this thing inside me . |
| 18 | Dorothea was there and the person she used to bring as a partner for Faith 's bridge games when I could not play . |
| 19 | So I always had meat during the rainy months when I could not go out with a gun . |
| 20 | Maybe if I keep mum and keep my fingers crossed — what did my father always say when I could n't have something : ‘ Them that ask do n't get , them that do n't ask , do n't want . ’ |
| 21 | There were days when I could n't even walk . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ That 's not true because I 've won many of my matches when I could n't hit my serve in court . ’ |
| 23 | There have been many times when I could n't write . |
| 24 | McGahern : ‘ There have been many times when I could n't write ’ |
| 25 | One day when I could n't answer a question about the workings of the British Parliament , Terry said , ‘ What 's the matter , you dumb or what ? ’ |
| 26 | I felt guilty — I seem to do that a lot , like when I could n't be with my parents when my father was dying , even when I know at an intellectual level that I do n't need to . |
| 27 | ‘ You know better than most , Naylor , that there were some nights when I could n't bear to let him go home at all ! ’ |
| 28 | I get to the stage when I can not be bothered . |
| 29 | In fact , I 've been bloody stupid at times , playing a couple of times when I should n't have . |
| 30 | However I would n't be happy about either having a boyfriend to stay overnight in the house quite yet . |