Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [verb] i [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 I had to conform ; I do not think I ever used the term in my reports , except in parenthesis to denote a sort of dirty word .
2 I shot out a hand and gripped Mackie 's trouser leg and pulled with strength I did n't know I still had left .
3 I do n't think I even heard his name .
4 I do n't think I even liked him very much . ’
5 I had no awareness of the supposed stereotypical mother of that era — lipsticked and aproned , waiting at the door — and do n't think I even encountered a picture of her , in books , comics or film , until the early 1960s .
6 At the time , the idea of a strong exclusive relationship was something that I did not actually want and I do n't think that even consciously at that time , I would have sought to have had that kind of relationship with David who was considerably younger than me and also , even though I was deeply into the whole scene and everything it represented , I do n't think I actually wanted to settle down with somebody who was a musician and was leading that sort of life style .
7 I do n't recall any real feelings of resentment , and I do n't think I fully appreciated the future implications .
8 ‘ I do n't think I ever knew her last name .
9 I do n't think I ever saw J[ack] work more than half an hour without the cry of ‘ Barboys ! ’ — ‘ Coming , dear ! ’ , down would go the pen , and he would be away perhaps five minutes , perhaps half an hour ; possibly to do nothing more important than stand by the kitchen range as scullery maid .
10 I do n't think I ever saw it .
11 I do n't think I ever saw a nude woman in the house — certainly there were women in various states of undress … but never nude . "
12 I do n't think I ever saw her again .
13 I do n't think I ever saw erm , yeah I did n't though .
14 We got our ration books — for us and the cattle-food as well — but I do n't think I ever worried about the possibility of Hitler invading us .
15 I do n't think I ever met a refined man before .
16 But er , know I , I do n't think I ever heard anybody think about it or say anything about a , an air raid like , you know .
17 ‘ I do n't think I ever heard of him , ’ Agnes said .
18 Yes , right to , to and , and you could even go on farther , but I do n't think I ever went any further I did n't have time .
19 All sorts of people held their hands out to me but I do n't think I ever got anything .
20 Er I remember it so vividly because it , at our house it was quite er an event because mother and father were so Labour and my brother , who erm he , I do n't know why , he 's not alive today and I ca n't so I , and I 've no idea , I do n't think I ever asked him because I 'd be too young , but I do know that the friction was in the house because he was working for the Conservative and she was the first woman that we ever elected er she , this , this lady did .
21 I , I do n't think I ever said that we could n't go ahead with it this year , I merely pointed out , I merely
22 ‘ No , I do n't think I ever looked inside .
23 I do n't think I ever talked about them to anyone . ’
24 I do n't think I ever opened the score .
25 He he very rarely played truant a boy did n't it 's er in fact I er I do n't think I ever did , to my knowledge played truant at all during school .
26 I do n't think I ever gave him a wrong 'un , though .
27 I do n't think I ever moved so fast in all my life .
28 I do n't think I ever caught up with it .
29 And I do n't think I really expected Feargal to go down to Rosslare !
30 I do n't think I really expected to see it , but when I did it amused me to follow you , and when you stopped in Wexford it was idle curiosity that prompted my behaviour , nothing else . ’
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