Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | ‘ Now that I know your ghost I do n't even have to wait for you to come home from the sea . ’ |
| 8 | A dame I did n't even know . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mummy I do n't really like those shoes . |
| 11 | And after all the fuss that 's been going on in work I do n't really like to ask to go early . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And I can't — I can't-for a length of brown satin I did n't even steal . |
| 14 | ‘ In fact , when the match moved into the shoot-out I did n't really fancy our chances . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ In fact , when the match moved into the shoot-out I did n't really fancy our chances . ’ |
| 16 | Er just one question I do n't really understand the erm employment levels . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ At the moment I do n't even know anyone else ! ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Well to tell you the truth I did n't really see him cos it was dark when he got in the car . |
| 23 | So she did n't expe , you know the ma , matrix system of levels and stuff I did n't fully understand that until the fourth year when I went with Miss cos she never explained it because she did n't reckon you needed to know . |
| 24 | It moves me playing it and it upsets me playing it , it 's very upsetting to play Alfie , because A he 's such a disastrous man as a person d you know you think oh god I do n't really wan na be playing this man for sixteen weeks but the part is so wonderful and the play is so rich that you ca n't help s sort of s submitting to it and putting yourself in the position of being a masochist I suppose . |
| 25 | ‘ When I spoke to Wednesday chairman Dave Richards last week I did n't actually put an offer in . |
| 26 | The carving is of a quality I do not even understand . |
| 27 | Erm moving around er feet movement I did n't quite master that yesterday but it it 's something that er I know that will come with time and er it 'll it 'll all come together . |
| 28 | and yet I 've been , in theory I do n't actually manage them . |
| 29 | You 'd say , rubbish I did n't even want to know whether it was say two thousand two hundred and twenty six . |
| 30 | I wanted to ask for help with the relics , and I wanted some moral support , but it felt wrong somehow , sort of like sneaking to an adult ; an adult I did n't even believe in . |