Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] not [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The routines suggested are guidelines : some of them may not apply to you in your current work . |
| 2 | In particular we discuss two aspects of the interpretation of definite pronouns , which we call role mapping and name mapping , and suggest that either one of them may not occur in the interpretation of any particular sentence . |
| 3 | I may not sympathize with the bombing . |
| 4 | I may not agree with many parts of his speech , but it was in the finest traditions of the House . |
| 5 | I may not look like one of these stick insects you see in magazines but at least I 'm happy . |
| 6 | ‘ I may not approve of the theology , ’ Laura perused a Caravaggio , which pictured Elvis as one of the three kings offering gifts to the infant Jesus ; Elvis was offering a tiny guitar , ‘ but the quality , the sheer magnificence . |
| 7 | ‘ Steve , ’ scolded the teacher , ‘ tonight I want you to stay behind and write out I must not belch in class 100 times . ’ |
| 8 | Nay , I must not dwell on that now — I must put her from my mind . |
| 9 | Something I must not bungle through unpreparedness . |
| 10 | So I must not jump at the first chance . |
| 11 | But , I told myself as I took a service elevator up to the roof , I should not think in the past tense . |
| 12 | The fact that it will rain tomorrow , for example , may mean that I should not go to London , even though the balance of reasons on the merits of my going ( i.e. all the reasons pro and con but the rain ) suggest that I should go . |
| 13 | ‘ Then you , also , must be given that pleasure , for I should not care for you to miss an instant of any pain , Wolfprince . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I should not dream of putting myself forward in any way at all , ’ said Dian Cecht . |
| 15 | I am even going to give you some , which I should not do for someone who knows nothing about wine . ’ |
| 16 | Und the money , Alice — I should not say to you this — it walks away from him … ’ |
| 17 | If that is support for an industry , I should not like to be part of an industry that the Government were against . |
| 18 | I should not yield to theirs unless I see its point and come to agree with them . |
| 19 | That is a point of view which I understand , but which I should not commend against a background in which Parliament , when removing the unfettered right of a land owner to develop his land as he wished , thought it right to enable a land owner to get a second opinion if the local decision on his application was adverse . |
| 20 | He said I had probably done all I could ( little did he know ) , but that no one was omnipotent and I should not try to be for Jean-Claude what Maman had been — and still was , to some extent . |
| 21 | ‘ Has n't it occurred to you , Skeeter , that I might not want to ? |
| 22 | Yeah , but I might not go to school tomorrow . |
| 23 | For all we know something may have happened today but I might not hear for ages |
| 24 | our Susan does , I did n't and I thought well I , I , when I come back I 'll not feel like eating this |
| 25 | Oh I 'll not talk about meat ! |
| 26 | She threatens ‘ I 'll not stay with you ’ . |
| 27 | And now she yelled , ‘ I 'll not go with you ! |
| 28 | Erm , I 'll not go through the whole of this table sir , but I do want you to look at the next column , outstanding planning permissions . |
| 29 | I want a divorce , that 's what I want , but he 'll not budge as long as he 's drawing two salaries and has me cooking for him — but I 'll not eat with him , I stick myself in that tiny kitchen in there — can you imagine the life I lead ? |
| 30 | I 'll not die for him , or his Maclean friends . ’ |