Example sentences of "i [vb mod] not [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Well , I 'll not feed the evil bitch ! |
| 32 | ‘ I 'll not have a babby in the place , I told them . |
| 33 | I 'll not have the horses frightened by a stomach that rattles loudly for want of food . |
| 34 | I 'll not call a formal divisional meeting , we had that on Wednesday . |
| 35 | I 'll drive you to Glasgow the minute the snow lets up but I 'll not hear a word about it . ’ |
| 36 | Having slugged back a glass of plum brandy , she says : ‘ I 'm a good Christian , but I 'll not turn the other cheek if some Albanian plucks out the eyes of a fellow Serb , or rapes a little girl , or castrates a 12-year-old Serbian boy … |
| 37 | At times like that I could not care a toss for JTR and wondered why the hell I was in such a situation . |
| 38 | I tried to start the engine but the airman on the starter battery trailer had fled so I could not do a thing except huddle in the cockpit , waiting for the sensation of being hit . |
| 39 | I could not forget the footprint , but I saw and heard nothing more , and slowly I began to feel happier . |
| 40 | I thought it was murder , and I could not forget the five orange pips and the strange letters to my uncle and my father . |
| 41 | My mother told me it was six ; I could not feel the lateness in the day , other than the westward blare of a reluctantly falling sun . |
| 42 | During the war with the Khomeini zealots , I could not command the necessary resources to reactivate the programme following the ‘ 81 setback . |
| 43 | ‘ I could not finish the song and have never been able to sing it since even to this day . ’ |
| 44 | In typical style Shaheen had commissioned the QE2 to take a large party of people to the opening and offered me a cabin on her , but as I could not spare the time and was not sure that I would be entirely at home with my fellow passengers , I flew over in response to his invitation . |
| 45 | ( And yet I remember one morning — when confronted by a preliminary plate of very sour , very cold slices of orange I could not stop a few tears trickling miserably down my cheeks — a gruff voice coming from the other end of the table . |
| 46 | I have read of a good bishop that was to be burnt for his religion ; and he tried how he could bear it , by putting his fingers into the lighted candle : so I t' other day tried , when Rachel 's back was turned , if I could not scour a pewter plate she had begun . |
| 47 | I could not pay a more eloquent testimony to the doctor than my hon. Friend has just paid . |
| 48 | They are the reason I could not contemplate a life lacking a daily sight of hills . |
| 49 | I could not face the prospect of spending a long holiday in Weymouth , because I would argue with my sister , and it rains too much in Weymouth . |
| 50 | When the hon. Member for Gedling mentioned the Secretary of State being a great supporter of the pillars of local government , I could not avoid a little chuckle . |
| 51 | We were climbing away at a very gentle angle and I could not understand why I could not move the controls . |
| 52 | I stood on the round wall and wound the handle as fast as I could , but when the bucket was still just out of reach , the rope kept slipping so I could not reach the bucket . |
| 53 | I was so angry with him , and so depressed about my future , that I could not eat the breakfast . |
| 54 | At first I thought I would die of hunger , as I could not eat the Yahoos ' dirty meat or the Houys ' grass and corn . |
| 55 | I could not endure the irony of missing her now . |
| 56 | I used to like giving poetry readings , but in the end I had to give up , for I could not stand the socializing afterwards , as if my poetry had just been the excuse for a drinking spree à la Dylan Thomas . |
| 57 | I could not stand the ridiculous questions people came and posed about my work : ‘ But how do you find such interesting subjects for your poems , Mr Kirkup ? ’ |
| 58 | But I could not stand the humiliation of crossing the Allenby Bridge — at my age , being stripped and searched by a Zionist , Jew , a Pole , a Russian or a Romanian who is living in my country , in my home , asking me questions and searching me . |
| 59 | He offered me his spare bed for the night , but I could not stand the stench of the creek , and I wanted to make an early start on the work I had to do on Wavebreaker , so I caught the bus to McIllvanney 's boatyard . |
| 60 | Well we , as I say we were eleven hundred feet above sea level and er and we were , really moved here because er I could not stand the er , the bad weather |