Example sentences of "[noun sg] i do not [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | erm extrovert I do n't quite know about that |
| 4 | Of course I do n't really believe in it at all . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Now that I know your ghost I do n't even have to wait for you to come home from the sea . ’ |
| 6 | Mummy I do n't really like those shoes . |
| 7 | And after all the fuss that 's been going on in work I do n't really like to ask to go early . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Er just one question I do n't really understand the erm employment levels . |
| 10 | ‘ At the moment I do n't even know anyone else ! ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The carving is of a quality I do not even understand . |
| 15 | and yet I 've been , in theory I do n't actually manage them . |
| 16 | Oh , er , I , I have to plead my ignorance I do n't even know who Steve Martin is . |
| 17 | The only thing I do n't really tell anybody is my |
| 18 | ‘ I — I — there is a thing I do n't quite understand , Your Highness . ’ |
| 19 | Or is it a ting I do n't yet discover , |
| 20 | The number of people that I hear saying things such as I do n't remember stepping over people in the street five years ago and it 's true , in this city I do n't actually remember doing that , not with the frequency with which it happens today and your government and your party has no record to shout about , absolutely none . |
| 21 | However , as an mere individual I do not also have a right to inherit his seat in parliament . |
| 22 | no , eat by the seventh so what 's today 's date the sixth , tomorrow 's the seventh there 's no hold on sixth today seventh eighth is Sunday , no it must be the ninth , oh god I 'm totally out of date I do n't even know what date it is let's have one of these that 'll make a change |
| 23 | And having smoked the odd joint I do n't really feel |
| 24 | But by language I do not only mean that of spoken words or written symbols . |
| 25 | I do n't know , but so long as I can cure the disease I do n't much care ! |
| 26 | ‘ We 've both been alone for such a long time I do n't honestly know whether our marriage would survive if we were together every day . ’ |
| 27 | Half the time I do n't even understand what they are fighting about . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ As for being my ‘ constant companion ’ , most of the time I do n't even know their names . ’ |
| 29 | Mr Boyd had patients waiting , a fact I do not quite understand , since he had just told Boswell and Johnson the story of one of Lord Errol 's tenants . |
| 30 | I take up points of view I do n't actually support strongly and start defending them to the hilt . |