Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] that i [vb mod] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They shackled my legs so that I could not run . |
| 2 | He fumbled his way into the chair provided for visitors and put a hand over his lips so that I should n't see how close he was to tears . |
| 3 | ‘ I carried on training as best I could after the operation , but when the specialist told me six months later that I could n't play again , I was shocked . |
| 4 | There are several songs here that I ca n't remember in their original form — not that I 'm going to tell you which ones they are . |
| 5 | No there will be Wednesdays now that I wo n't be able to come at all . |
| 6 | Margaret Thatcher had kept her word given over five years before that I would not lose out by my enforced move to Transport and I was now in charge of the biggest spender and largest employer in Whitehall . |
| 7 | Chairman chairman there seem to be when I looked at it there seem to a number of headings here that I could n't account for and I 've asked the chair of the finance committee , she could n't account for them either , and I think it 's , whilst I understand the reasons for going and I 'm sure we would have approved them , I think it 's actually quite important that all these small sums , wh when you add them up over this erm over this month and you look at them , are quite large over the budget that we have have already adopted and the things that we wanted to do , and it concerns me that some of these things which are maybe very sensible , actually reduce our effectiveness of doing things that the council 's agreed that they are going to do this year and next year , the seventy six pounds here , the thirty pounds later on , fifty four pounds for large thorn plants et cetera , et cetera , and a hundred and fifty pounds over the budget on the Christmas lights . |
| 8 | The girls started to arrive and I looked busy with a pile of papers so that I would n't have to talk to them . |
| 9 | I said a few moments ago that I would not exclude consideration or the need for consideration of the greenbelt purposes served . |