Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb mod] not [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Evolution in the computer would then really take off , for the conditions would be met for a self-reinforcing " arms race " ( see Chapter 7 ) , and I dare not speculate where it would all end . |
2 | He had an impulse to say , ‘ This is the music of 1988 ; these are our heroes ; that building on the headland is our architecture and I dare not stop my car to help children home because they 've been taught with good reason that a strange man might abduct and rape them . ’ |
3 | And I may not need your services now , so you could be on a train back to Frankfurt tomorrow . ’ |
4 | And I may not suit your parents . ’ |
5 | I intend to travel extensively during the summer and I may not have the pleasure of meeting you . |
6 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
7 | well I 'll get the car and you can go out , I says you 're not getting the car out and I 'll not go I said you can go |
8 | They 'd have reached Stella 's ears and I 'll not tolerate her being upset . ’ |
9 | You 're to me as my own and I 'll not stand cheekiness from either . |
10 | And I 'll not put that prescription in till |
11 | I 've put a lot of time and effort into them and I 'll not allow you or anyone else to change them ! ’ |
12 | No well I 'll go there , I 'll get a pound book and then it 'll give me a spare stamp and I 'll not run out no more . |
13 | And I 'll not kill you ! |
14 | I think they will , but I can not be sure , and I would not want the National Curriculum to force him on unwilling teachers . |
15 | And I would not want to be pushed further . |
16 | The border between a free and charged service is always , however , a source of inequity , and I would not want to remove one anachronism to introduce others . |
17 | If the Prime Minister reads the debate in Committee and sees the praise that I heaped on the Minister during those 12 sittings , the Minister will be next for the chop in the reshuffle , and I would not want that to happen to him . |
18 | That is a matter for the Secretary of State for Transport and I would not want to comment on it . |
19 | It must be for the local authorities , which have the statutory responsibilities , to take those responsibilities extremely seriously and I would not want to divorce them from the primary responsibility for undertaking those tasks . |
20 | This authority is taking a somewhat different view to that public inquiry than the erm the highways authority er after shire hill er erm so I I think if we were to take a decision tonight it could affect our position at the public inquiry adversely er and I would not want us to get into that situation so I think to some extent er councillor timing on this motions is wrong and we should n't be be er discussing it now . |
21 | ‘ It is a very distressing case , We do n't know what the full facts are , and I would not want to comment in detail . |
22 | We do n't know what the full facts are , and I would not want to comment in detail , ’ he added . |
23 | We do n't know what the full facts are and I would not want to comment in detail . |
24 | I know them to be human creatures made in God 's image too , the womenfolk most lovely and most temperate ( for the most part ) , and I would not abet the evil Spaniard in his slanders . |
25 | And I would not suggest that total of three hundred times thirteen should be reduced by the amount of the existing commitment . |
26 | She might say , and I would not blame her for saying , that the Strangeways riot and the riots associated with it have given cause for a total and radical rethink . |
27 | At the time I had few qualms and found the role-playing exciting ; today I feel I was condescending to the people I deceived and I would not do it again . |
28 | And I would not feel that Kenneth would ge could get near to any one of us . |
29 | And I would not give another year of my life to a new version , he wrote . |
30 | It is difficult to think that Parliament intended the section to operate so capriciously and I would not construe it in that sense unless clearly constrained to do so by the statutory language . |