Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] i [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Love and attention being the rewards of infantile behaviour , it only amazes me that I did not think of the idea sooner . |
| 2 | But Mr Frankland 's next words showed me that I did not need to worry . |
| 3 | ( If my private test convinces me that I do not want what you think I want , I assume error in your reading of me the public tests , which I must expose or leave you unanswered . ) |
| 4 | Not every one of you can see me and I do not see each of you . |
| 5 | He added : ‘ I was in a place once when a man fired a gun at me and I did not like it at all . |
| 6 | The view mentioned by the hon. Gentleman has never been put to me and I did not see the article to which he referred . |
| 7 | It was all around me and I did not dare to go in any direction . |
| 8 | My father told me one evening that neither he nor my mother would think the worse of me if I did not go . |
| 9 | My hon. Friend will forgive me if I do not respond to one part of his question . |
| 10 | There is a great gulf between ‘ popular culture ’ ( excuse me if I do not try to define the term ) and contemporary art . |
| 11 | ‘ I can only assure you that I did not break into your house with any harmful intent . |
| 12 | He said , ‘ I think I ought to tell you that I do not grieve for my mother . ’ |
| 13 | Delaunay , who earlier in the year had held an important exhibition together with Marie Laurencin at the Galerie Barbazanges , did not show at the Section d'Or , and wrote an open letter to Vauxcelles : ‘ I beg to inform you that I do not subscribe to the erroneously held opinions of Monsieur Hourcade which proclaim me as a founder of Cubism together with four of my colleagues and friends . |
| 14 | I would tell Miss if I was you because I do not like to see |
| 15 | Seems to know me but I do not know her ( not Minny ) . |
| 16 | He put his arm round me but I did not want to be caressed . |
| 17 | Three o'clock — I just finish off everything that I did not have time to do . |
| 18 | This was the Luton Post Office murder , and although , in view of my long labours on the Meehan case , I had resolved not to take up any more cases , this was one that I did not see how I could refuse . |
| 19 | It is not necessary for us in the present case to decide whether this distinction is a legitimate one and I do not think we should assume to do so . |
| 20 | ‘ Whatever they do will personally sadden me because I do not want to see my constituency chopped up , ’ he said . |
| 21 | That happens to be all right for me because I do not have to commute regularly but it could be a consideration . |
| 22 | Eventually I convinced him that I did not want anything . |
| 23 | When we met I told him that I did not think he had anything more urgent to attend to , and if he thought he had something more important , then his priorities were wrong . |
| 24 | I assured him that I did not have the slightest idea where the Derby Cup was and had not made away with it . |
| 25 | that does n't bother me , but considering it was only the second I 'd spoken to him and I did not fancy him in the least erm , it really made my skin crawl . |
| 26 | ‘ It is perfectly common in ordinary speech to refer to the child in utero as he , she , him or her and I do not feel driven by the use of such ordinary parlance in this section ( of the act ) to the view which Lord Prosser accepted , that parliament envisaged a person sustaining injuries meaning a person enjoying legal personality . ’ |
| 27 | As for the proposals contained in ’ Escaping the Debt Trap ’ — the hon. Gentleman kindly sent me a copy — it will not surprise him if I do not agree with all of them . |
| 28 | I do not want it and I do not understand it . |
| 29 | Again my my personal view is that I think phasing has got a lot a lot going for it but I do not know how you could phase current commitments , because after all those those are on the table now . |
| 30 | Mr Fallon said : ‘ I would have to think very seriously about it as I do not think Dr Clarke 's views should be given air time . ’ |