Example sentences of "i [modal v] [not/n't] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that is support for an industry , I should not like to be part of an industry that the Government were against . |
| 2 | He said I had probably done all I could ( little did he know ) , but that no one was omnipotent and I should not try to be for Jean-Claude what Maman had been — and still was , to some extent . |
| 3 | It 's a bad time , admitted , there 's truth in that , but I should n't choose to be out of it . |
| 4 | ‘ I should n't like to be able to do that . ’ |
| 5 | I thought we 'd been getting on pretty well but as Father 's Day approached , Joe made it clear that I could n't hope to be any more than just second best |
| 6 | I could n't bear to be married if I had n't … ‘ |
| 7 | ‘ In the end I could n't bear to be anywhere else , ’ she said , and added that if such practices had been going on in the islands as were alleged , everyone would have known about them . |
| 8 | At the time I could n't bear to be parted from my new little owl . |
| 9 | I could n't bear to be in its thrall for another day . |
| 10 | He just nodded as if he did n't want to speak , and then at the bottom ( it was vanity , I could n't bear to be lumped with Caroline ) I said , I 'm sorry my aunt said that at Kenwood . |
| 11 | How could I have possibly explained without hurting you that I could n't bear to be near you , because you no longer felt like my mother ? |
| 12 | ‘ I could n't bear to be separated from Jeff for three weeks . |
| 13 | And I could n't bear to be with women I did like because it reminded me forcibly that they did n't turn me on . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I could n't stand to be there . |
| 15 | ‘ I could n't fail to be , could I ? ’ |
| 16 | I could n't wait to be fourteen and be free of the place . |
| 17 | I could n't wait to be issued with a uniform as I stood out in my civilian clothes , which were much nicer than anybody else 's . |
| 18 | He maddened me , yet I could n't wait to be with him . ’ |
| 19 | I could n't seem to be bothered to move . |
| 20 | Mortal , I could not bear to be the one who slays the light . |
| 21 | But I could not bear to be supplanted in a view that lay next to my heart by an old acquaintance . |
| 22 | I could not bear to be in France a moment longer : my friends confirmed my impulse . |
| 23 | But then I do n't like blood so I would n't want to be either a cook or a surgeon . |
| 24 | That 's why I would n't want to be a model . |
| 25 | If it 's like promoting the idea of killing cops as being a good thing , if this band wanted to do a song like that I would n't want to be in the band . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I would n't want to be anywhere else , ’ she said . |
| 27 | I would n't want to be a defender and see him coming on with 20 minutes left after being run ragged by Ian Rush , ’ he said . |
| 28 | And so I would n't want to be er asked to interpret any one line of this in particular , or to put any particular nuance on it because then you would say aha but that 's not what we believe . |
| 29 | I would n't want to be either of those women . |
| 30 | ‘ Nay , ’ said Fred , ‘ I like it where I am , it suits me where I am , I would n't want to be moving at my age . |