Example sentences of "that i [vb mod] not " in BNC.
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1 | If a personal creditor of the heir has been sent into possession in order to protect his property , and has obtained an object left under trust to me , it is agreed that I ought not to be prejudiced by him in any way ; no more than if he had received that object as a pledge from the heir himself . |
2 | What is called the ‘ moral sense ’ is on this account being able to recognize that if , even against my present will , I let myself become aware of how someone in trouble feels , I would be moved to help , and that I ought not to close myself to this awareness . |
3 | ‘ I 'm upset , as you put it , because you did n't even have the courtesy to warn me that I might not be giving a lecture that 's due in eight days ’ time . |
4 | ‘ Has n't it occurred to you , Skeeter , that I might not want to ? |
5 | ‘ My wife thinks I might be risking all my credibility by coming back and that I might not get another job in football . |
6 | ‘ I had rather expected before I went that I might not be taken seriously as a woman . |
7 | Some like the Sandvik Sandplate have introduced me to products that I might not have otherwise tried . |
8 | I knew that one day I might be asked to walk on the edge of knives like the little mermaid , and was afraid that I might not be able to bear the pain . |
9 | It would n't enter his head that I might not just kill Vecchi out of hand . |
10 | I felt as if I was under a terrible spell , and I trembled , afraid that I might not be able to escape . |
11 | He says that I might not need to get it right ? |
12 | ‘ But did it not occur to that massive conceit of yours that I might not want to make love to you ? ’ |
13 | So that was when I first started to be told about the possibility that I might not be able to have any children . |
14 | He says that I might not need to get it , right , because , if , he can only tell half my blood . |
15 | Perhaps radio will allow me to play all the unsuitable roles that I ca n't do visually in the theatre , where it 's just the voice and the character . |
16 | It may be that I ca n't help , but … ’ |
17 | The trouble is that I ca n't identify it and ca n't find it in my gardening books or in any of the books at my local library . |
18 | David Howell did not remember his time in Cabinet with much pleasure — ‘ some arguments just left such acrimony and ill-feeling that I ca n't believe they really could have been enjoyable … |
19 | ‘ A woman would be able to help you in ways that I ca n't , ’ he said . |
20 | ‘ I was so young when it was first diagnosed that I ca n't really remember a time without it . |
21 | ‘ Well , I was hoping to do some digging , ’ said the Prince , ‘ but it 's so hard that I ca n't get the spade in . |
22 | My ambition is to have a different look each day so that I ca n't be labelled . ’ |
23 | ‘ It is n't that he has totally gone away , it 's just that I ca n't see him as I used to . ’ |
24 | Eventually , at tea time , I tell Nicola 's mother that I ca n't go to India because I 'm starting a course at university . |
25 | For the first time , it occurs to me that my body has needs for food , needs of its own that I ca n't try to overrule with dieting and ferocious exercise and fasting ; and in a bigger way , I realise that I have needs of all kinds that I had tried to ignore : a need for food , a need to be loved , a need to feel accepted , a need for independence , a need to grow up , and a need for security . |
26 | A thousand needs that I 've spent most of my teenage years pretending do n't exist , and when they 've made themselves felt , so strongly that I ca n't fail to be aware of them , I 've crushed them , trying to control my appetite and cravings in every way that I know , fighting a pointless and endless war against myself . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | When I tell him ( truthfully ) that I ca n't remember , he asks me again . |
29 | That I ca n't be , |
30 | I can only compose at night , so that I ca n't get up early as well ; besides , one is not always in the mood for working . |