Example sentences of "[that] i [vb mod] [not/n't] afford " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that I want to look as if I shop at Next , or look cute , or anything , it 's just that I ca n't afford to dress the way I 'd like to . |
| 2 | But you see my parents work in the theatre and I 'm so used to moving from town to town that I ca n't afford to waste time . |
| 3 | It did n't occur to you that we go away from here to be private , that our holidays are our own affair , that it might humiliate me to have Edwin Lorrimer know that I ca n't afford to take you to Venice , even on a ten-day package tour . |
| 4 | I have always looked after it because I know that I can not afford another one . ’ |
| 5 | I have to face the fact that , now we have a mortgage and want to start a family , I 'll never enjoy the year off travelling that I could n't afford before university . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I remember going to a holo-bar that I could n't afford very often . |
| 7 | I was n't going to rush around buying horribly expensive things like smoke salmon that I could n't afford , I was going to do a big family feast and I was going to get in a few games like the monopoly or lotto or you know , I just , I have n't worked it out but I thought oh what fun |
| 8 | Her mother said : ‘ Those former foster parents , who she 's been once a year to Spain with , they have been able to give her the luxuries that I could not afford to give her . ’ |