Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] not [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who knows if I may not have need of you by to-morrow ? ’ |
| 2 | I must not give way to it , because it is so unlike me and quite causeless . |
| 3 | I 'll not rest 'til I see you again . |
| 4 | You 're to me as my own and I 'll not stand cheekiness from either . |
| 5 | I 'll not forget th'goodness . |
| 6 | I 'll not have Ling upset . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll not have Ling 's floor in a mess . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But if they take 'er I swear I 'll not lose sight of 'er . |
| 9 | I could not stop crying . ’ |
| 10 | Then I wished I had asked him to walk with me to the coach , and I could not stop crying . |
| 11 | As hard as I tried , I could not make use of the staff , so I carried it , hobbling like a stage imbecile . |
| 12 | I explained to the man that I could not carry cheese to my appointment but that I would be back another day . |
| 13 | As Prime Minister I could not waste time having any internal arguments ’ or ‘ Yes , I do drive through things which I believe in passionately — what else do you expect of a Prime Minister ? |
| 14 | As Prime Minister I could not waste time having any internal arguments . |
| 15 | It was the first time that someone close to me had died , and I could not imagine life without my sister , even if I had never loved her , or even thought about her recently . |
| 16 | ‘ After school , I could not find Mummy outside . |
| 17 | I could not keep food or fluids down and when the symptoms did not go after a couple of days they took me to the hospital and put me on a drip . ’ |
| 18 | The request that I should receive a consignment of most , if not all , of the issues was obviously impossible to meet ; and although I should much like to have had the ‘ run ’ of Eliot 's bookcase for an afternoon , I felt I could not seek permission , so soon after my arrival at the school , to go to London for that purpose , so I told Eliot that half a dozen well-spaced numbers would suffice for me . |
| 19 | At the moment I could not boil water successfully . ’ |
| 20 | He apparently forgot that I could not understand German or else decided that what he wanted to say could not be left unsaid , for he began to talk fast and seriously . |
| 21 | They thought I could not understand French ; I can , my mother was French . |
| 22 | The simile was so striking and no doubt so apt , and one that was so delightfully Eliotish , that I could not take offence , though a critical word from that quarter could deal a heavy blow to one 's morale . |
| 23 | I would not give space to anti-arrhythmics in my bag as a GP . |
| 24 | ‘ I would not eat cat , ’ he murmurs . |
| 25 | I said a few moments ago that I would not exclude consideration or the need for consideration of the greenbelt purposes served . |
| 26 | Editor , — There is scarcely an assertion in Richard Smith 's editorial about the General Medical Council ( GMC ) with which I would not take issue . |
| 27 | I would not take office under MacDonald , and yet it would have been impossible to have refused . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , Your Majesty , ’ I mumbled , hoping I would not lose control of my bowels or vomit in sheer terror . |
| 29 | I would not claim specialist knowledge of penal systems in Britain or overseas but offer my observations as those of an interested and reasonably informed member of the general public . |
| 30 | ‘ I suppose I have learned that I have been able to survive an experience such as this , which certainly I would not have bet on myself to do . |