Example sentences of "[Wh det] i did [not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | René Descartes , who attempted to discover truth by doubting everything he could manage to doubt , described the first principle of his method like this in A Discourse on Method , ‘ The first rule was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such ; that is to say … to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt . ’ |
| 2 | From this Time to that of her Death , few Days pass 'd in which I did not either see or hear from her ; for she gave me the Pleasure of seeing all her Poems as soon as they were finish 'd |
| 3 | The sheets smelt of Croisset — that place which I did not yet know would be forbidden to me ; there was a petal between two of my toes , and a thin scratch down the inside of my right thigh . |
| 4 | The older of the young ones let out a sniggering laugh which developed into a hiccoughy laugh , the younger one hissed out , fuckin' bloody Paki ; a third voice , I could n't tell whose , said something which I did not quite understand but sounded like , and indeed was , National Front . |
| 5 | " There was one very difficult principle that we were up against which I did not really know about to start with … that in accordance with the general surrender everyone was supposed to surrender to the Allied Army against whom they had been fighting . |
| 6 | Then they gave us a charge sheet — it was huge , something like 23 particulars , some of which I did n't even recognise . ’ |
| 7 | I lost , of course , hardly surprising since the elections were carved up by the various political groups , most of which I did n't even know existed . |
| 8 | One was immense drive for power which I did n't fully understand until I had a better idea of the second quality . |
| 9 | And you 're so anxious to justify yourself , that you answer the question , and then you go on to tell me all the background behind it , and in so doing you give me a lovely piece of information which I did n't actually have when you walked into the room . |
| 10 | So I had to go to the , like the job centre and they offered me this , which I did n't really fancy at the time . |
| 11 | On this point , the head considers the project-inspired developments to have " taken off " at a pace which he had never envisaged : I think it 's been the instigator for a lot of cross-curriculum things which I did n't really anticipate ; I thought it might have been instigator for the sort of subject-based problems that would either stimulate something in the subject or the subject could actually move to the library and it 's obviously worked faster on the cross-curriculum aspect . |
| 12 | I would leave this drab and unhappy employment in St Andrew 's House — for what I did not yet know . |
| 13 | I wrote in great haste and under some excitement , from the statements to which I referred , [ Palmerston 's remarks ] and plead this as my excuse if I expressed what I did not really intend . |