Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] not [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thinking of him again made me so wretched that on my way back into the department I did not even notice the owner of the hand that held open the door for me , until I chanced to notice Dr Jones watching from outside his office . |
| 2 | Soon after this I embarked on another essay , under what stimulus I do not now remember ; but I had formed the habit , not of revising or tinkering with an unsatisfactory piece , but of writing something else instead . |
| 3 | In the communal gardens I did not generally like drawing alone ; children and young teenage boys away from adult supervision , like young people everywhere , would sometimes taunt me or become rude , whereas one time , I sat against a house wall and was looked after by a family . |
| 4 | No Elsie I did not really believe that but my heart was pounding I can tell you when they pulled that net in . |
| 5 | The carving is of a quality I do not even understand . |
| 6 | However , as an mere individual I do not also have a right to inherit his seat in parliament . |
| 7 | Except that we were never completely apart , my love , for you were always beside me , and you were always there , and I think that without you there there were times when I should certainly have been crushed by the weight of a Crown I did not really want . |
| 8 | But by language I do not only mean that of spoken words or written symbols . |
| 9 | Mr Boyd had patients waiting , a fact I do not quite understand , since he had just told Boswell and Johnson the story of one of Lord Errol 's tenants . |