Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] [not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it , it wo n't suit everybody , you might not want , in my case I do n't particularly want to live with a burglar alarm . |
| 2 | ( In all honesty I did n't really think that she would want to flick elastic bands but I could n't think of what else to rhyme with ‘ hands ’ . ) |
| 3 | Apart from doing the job of Principal ( for which I shall need a lot of help from the Lord ) , and living as a Christian I do n't yet know what the Lord wants me to do out there . |
| 4 | erm extrovert I do n't quite know about that |
| 5 | Of course I do n't really believe in it at all . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ For the loss of my watch I did n't exactly come up trumps in the breakfast lottery . |
| 7 | Out here , with the lost river running past my feet , learning the names of birds I do n't even know the names of in English , I feel good about us . |
| 8 | ‘ Now that I know your ghost I do n't even have to wait for you to come home from the sea . ’ |
| 9 | So I would have to warn Time , ‘ Be careful , some of the images I did n't actually take , my minder 's taking them . ’ |
| 10 | A dame I did n't even know . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Mummy I do n't really like those shoes . |
| 13 | And after all the fuss that 's been going on in work I do n't really like to ask to go early . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And I can't — I can't-for a length of brown satin I did n't even steal . |
| 17 | ‘ In fact , when the match moved into the shoot-out I did n't really fancy our chances . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ In fact , when the match moved into the shoot-out I did n't really fancy our chances . ’ |
| 19 | Er just one question I do n't really understand the erm employment levels . |
| 20 | And , you know , the queue 'd be all down the stairs and all down the road and to be truthful as a , as , as erm I , in my early married days of course erm I , my money accumulated er because of sort I did n't really need it . |
| 21 | ‘ At the moment I do n't even know anyone else ! ’ |
| 22 | For a moment I did n't even recognise it as the same owl Derek and I had been round to see a few weeks before . |
| 23 | ‘ In those early days I did n't even stop to think how Derrick felt , ’ she admits . |
| 24 | Not only is it raining , it 's 5 o'clock , and though I 'm not defeatist by nature I do n't even bother looking for a taxi , deciding instead to walk the two miles back to the London flat . |
| 25 | I hope she ai n't going to ask me a question — you know , like where summat is , like the ladies or summat , cos to tell the truth I do n't really know my way round here . |
| 26 | Well to tell you the truth I did n't really see him cos it was dark when he got in the car . |
| 27 | But when I got home and found my answerphone knee-deep in angry messages I did n't really have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out that you had something to do with it . ’ |
| 28 | Does match in two colours I do n't really match but this |
| 29 | Being as the car 's going on Monday I do n't actually need the gemini er alarm . |
| 30 | When we take breaks — when I 'm at home or on vacation — my chops go down drastically because I 'm enjoying my free time and doing things I do n't usually have time to do . |