Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] not [adv] [verb] to " 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 | I did not even complain to the British Medical Association — as I was in law entitled so to do — about the gross impertinence of a certain toothy and incompetent doctor in this very borough who imagined in his stupidity that I was incapable of reading upside-down the notes he was making on the other side of a desk at which I was once unwise enough to sit . |
| 3 | I did not therefore expect to be invited here and was resigned to being by myself yet again and sure my spirits would once more be lowered . |
| 4 | Aside from the fact that I 'm not normally given to physical violence , I 'm quite well known locally , and I did n't particularly want to be seen carrying a half-naked woman ashore — which is what you threatened me with . |
| 5 | In the end I did n't even walk to Cambridge , but went ignominiously by bus from Royston , where we stopped for lunch . |
| 6 | I saw her briefly , and , I did n't even speak to her other than to say hello . |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't even want to be at the presentation . |
| 8 | I say , if it was midnight Joey went round with that , I did n't even have to . |
| 9 | I did n't really want to be a pretty little girl then . |
| 10 | The only thing is , I did n't really want to be a tailoress , I wanted to be a nurse , but had n't much choice , then . |
| 11 | So with it being another student union and it being like a conference in aid of the homeless and that , I did n't really want to sort of give them a load of grief so I suggested about sixty pounds . |
| 12 | I did n't really expect to . |
| 13 | ‘ There was this group unity we had to have that I felt lost in and I did n't really relate to . |
| 14 | He had a shifty air — as well as an obvious aversion to work of any kind — and I did n't really take to him . |
| 15 | But when I got home and found my answerphone knee-deep in angry messages I did n't really have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out that you had something to do with it . ’ |
| 16 | I did n't usually get to bed until 11 or 12 pm . |
| 17 | ‘ But Maurin had gone roaring off in a taxi and I 'd had to find the bus stop and so I did n't seriously expect to . |
| 18 | Hell , I did n't actually agree to anything . |
| 19 | Spending time with McIllvanney was not my idea of relaxation , and I did n't much take to his lack of enthusiasm . |
| 20 | He 'd said too much — and I had n't even begun to cotton on . |
| 21 | In fact , I had n't even got to the first stair before the phone went . |
| 22 | In my tender pre-teen years , I had n't yet learned to be analytical — far less critical . |
| 23 | ‘ I had n't actually planned to , ’ Lindsey shot her a wry look , ‘ but yes . |
| 24 | I had not long returned to England after a visit to my old mission of Cameroon on the West coast of Africa . |
| 25 | I had not only come to faith . |
| 26 | But you did n't both go to the bed with the shield , that 's my point . |
| 27 | Lord Osborne said he was satisfied on the evidence that when Ms Sultana went through the formalities of the civil marriage ceremony she did not truly consent to be married to Mr Ahmed . |
| 28 | A LETTER from Greta Garbo shows she did not always want to be alone . |
| 29 | But she could n't draw back now ; she did n't even want to . |
| 30 | And occasionally she did n't even seem to be acting at all . |