Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | I do not intend here to give any details of the substances present , or of the kinds of reaction which occur . |
2 | I do not intend now to resurrect the metaphysical theory I said in Chapter 2 that we do not need . |
3 | Consequently , I do not propose here to go into the main sections which will need to exist — ‘ post-WFP ’ — in Fig. 3.6 . |
4 | I know quite a lot about his work and his reputation , and am quite proud of him , but I do n't expect ever to exchange one word with him . |
5 | ‘ I do n't want just to tag along , Mum , and anyway , I told you , I 'm not their sort . |
6 | I do n't want here to get mired in issues of personality and priority , some of which have been brought into the public domain by Susan Allport in her book Explorers of the Black Box , but to concentrate instead on some of the more problematic theoretical issues . |
7 | Now I do n't want necessarily to equate the two of them . |
8 | I do n't want ever to see him . |
9 | I do n't have anywhere to live . ’ |
10 | I did not wish openly to agree with her but Mistress Rachel was correct . |
11 | Erm Bradford and Leeds have er adopted a similar approach in their representations to er yourselves and certainly er I did not come here to take a er a part in the debate over specific figures . |
12 | ‘ However , I did not come here to quarrel with you , Larua . |
13 | ‘ I did not come here to wrangle with you . ’ |
14 | ‘ I did not come here to rake up old scores . ’ |
15 | I knew you might work it out but I reasoned that if I did n't rush forward to explain all , you might catch the culprit first and never have to trouble me . ’ |
16 | And we stayed in digs together once in Oxford , and later I did n't have anywhere to stay and his mother put me up . |
17 | I did n't come just to eavesdrop . |
18 | He says : ‘ I did n't come here to put a notch on Chris 's belt . |
19 | I did n't come here to apologise . |
20 | ‘ I did n't come here to argue with you , Luke . |
21 | ‘ I did n't come here to talk about Silvia . ’ |
22 | I did n't come here to see sights . |
23 | ‘ I did n't come here to discuss the past , Natasha . |
24 | ‘ I did n't come here to hear this , ’ Gentle said . |
25 | ‘ You 're talking about something I 've never been told about , and I did n't come here to find out . |
26 | She said huskily , ‘ I did n't come here to wreck anything . |
27 | ‘ I did n't come here to bargain with you , Luke , ’ she offered caustically . |
28 | The Efta states remain outside the jurisdiction of the European Court and free from any EEC decisions which do not relate directly to trade . |
29 | to the point where my father-in-law woken up in his room with hilarious giggles which do n't take long to ensue |
30 | Indeed , one might hope for still more in the way of functional explanation much of the syntactic machinery of a language seems to be concerned with the linear re-organization of material in sentences ( as in passive or topicalized constructions ) , a re-organization which does not seem substantially to affect the ( truth-conditional ) semantic content . |