Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i do [not/n't] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My old friend , my youth , ’ he wrote to her afterwards , ‘ during the long years I have lived without knowing your whereabouts , there was perhaps not a single day when I did not think of you . ’ |
| 2 | For my part , there can hardly have been a day when I did not think of Eliot , when his growing prestige was not a source of immense satisfaction and pride to me , and when personal news about him , however brief , was more than welcome at such distance than propinquity without meeting would have been . |
| 3 | And then it got to the stage when I did not want to , ’ she is alleged to have said . |
| 4 | Suppose that it is known that a financial expert reaches the ‘ right ’ decision ( whatever that may be ) in 20% more cases than I do when I do not rely on his advice . |
| 5 | ‘ Why , oh why , oh why , ’ bemoaned a friend , sounding remarkably like a Gilbert O'Sullivan son , ‘ does Nick always want to make love in the morning , which is exactly when I do n't feel like it ? |
| 6 | Well , it 's , it 's simple that if I got up at half past six , and took him up a cup of tea at quarter too seven , and when he was around at seven o'clock , I was grilling bacon and I was frying eggs , and I hope , I do n't know whether perhaps it 's my cold , but , I , I just used to feel terribly unwell after he 'd gone , for about two hours and my legs were so wobbly , I was sitting down on the sofa , I may go back yet to cooking him breakfast if I feel like it , but , the , I mean if I can say to these chaps that , there are times when I do n't feel like doing things , well , I reckon Dave that they are so glad to be in that house with the central heating , with the twenty four hour er , er a day water , and the comfort , there not going to argue . |
| 7 | There 's hardly a waking moment when I do n't think of him , imagine what he looks like , where he is , what he 's thinking . |
| 8 | There is not a day which goes by when I do n't think of them , ’ she says . |
| 9 | I still miss Clare greatly and there is n't a day goes by when I do n't think of her . |
| 10 | To write and record songs and do world tours when I do n't have to is important because that is my , and the band 's , identity . |
| 11 | That 's when I do n't wan na do it , just too much hassle . |
| 12 | He had just said , ‘ I have come to the point where I do not think of colour . |
| 13 | And that 's where I do n't want to be . |
| 14 | ‘ That is why I did not arrive until late on Wednesday evening . |
| 15 | Do n't know why I did n't think of it sooner . |
| 16 | I do n't know why I did n't think of it myself . |
| 17 | I mean that 's all it , as I say , I do n't know why I did n't think of it cos in the she well I do know why I did n't think of |
| 18 | I mean that 's all it , as I say , I do n't know why I did n't think of it cos in the she well I do know why I did n't think of |
| 19 | so I mean erm and that is the reason why I did n't go into wanting to get all the details at that point erm |
| 20 | ‘ Why I did n't go to bed with Warren Beatty ’ by actress Sean Young |
| 21 | WHY I DID N'T GO TO BED WITH WARREN BEATTY |
| 22 | ‘ They 'll never understand why I did n't go to them in the first place . |
| 23 | That 's why I did n't speak to you on Tuesday night . |
| 24 | " I knew exactly why you did n't come and I thought you knew why I did n't come to you . |
| 25 | Mm , tha , that 's why I did n't say like |
| 26 | That 's why I do n't travel on the train very often . |
| 27 | That 's why I do n't think of it … |