Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb mod] not [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I gave him my heart , and he destroyed it , so I ca n't feel pity for him . |
| 2 | Like the hon. Member for Copeland , I have reduced my time considerably , so I will not give way . |
| 3 | If I ca n't get promotion on the basis of all the hard work I 've done for the organisation over the last five years then I do n't know how I can get it . |
| 4 | And if I ca n't have happiness , I want pleasure , even if it 's wrong . ’ |
| 5 | Well , if I ca n't have Heathcliff as my friend , if Edgar is going to be mean and jealous , I 'll try to break both their hearts by breaking my own . |
| 6 | Who knows if I may not have need of you by to-morrow ? ’ |
| 7 | Neither do I , that 's why I 'm asking you , cos I wo n't have time to shop |
| 8 | Tim , please stop cos I ca n't hear daddy think let alone hear him talk . |
| 9 | Well it 's not a yes yes for the garden because I would n't have room for it but it 's certainly a yes yes in my shelter delt because the birds love the berries and it really encourages them to use that shelter delt but it is n't as , as easy to grow , it 's , one tends to think of the nature plant as a tough plant but I 've been trying to establish about thirty of these in the shelter delt and I 've found they object to any form of total weedkiller round the root , so all the , the weedkillers that you would use for the first couple of years maybe to , to keep the , the weeds from growing round the stems , they tend to get chlorotic and die . |
| 10 | ‘ Because I would n't have time to think . ’ |
| 11 | The sorts of experiences that you then get people talking about is really well I 've learnt to stand up for myself for the first time , erm I now know what I want to do , I know who I am , erm projects where I 've been involved , where you get women saying things like well two years ago I would never have dreamt of going and talking to the Council about my house , or my children , or that I ca n't get a job because I ca n't get child care , and I would n't have dreamt of doing that and people who now say well now I can do that , I know that I can go and stand up for myself and stand up for what I think is right , just as well as my husband can . |
| 12 | because I could n't speak English at all , I speak the , I could read a paper or a book , I du n no what is all about , but I used to get because you got on it for instant like mm |
| 13 | ‘ I went from feeling useless because I could n't get work to feeling defiant . |
| 14 | I ca n't behave naturally because I must n't give offence . |
| 15 | In fact , whereas I would n't see art as a necessity , I would see the woman as a necessity . |
| 16 | ‘ I left here , telling myself I could n't be lady Anne 's companion 'cos I could n't leave mama on her own . |
| 17 | ‘ I masturbate when I ca n't get sex , and I weight train when I ca n't masturbate . ’ |
| 18 | ( My dad never touched the pig , though I was sure this was conditioning rather than religious scruple , just as I would n't eat horse 's scrotum . |
| 19 | Children still sing skipping songs about soggy semolina though I ca n't remember semolina being served for over twenty years . |
| 20 | It looks as though I wo n't need skin grafts but we 're not sure yet . |