Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [subord] i do [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you were here before I was only a schoolboy and er just er old enough to know everything that was going on , as you might say , but young enough so as I did n't get too involved . |
| 2 | The calculations I must have performed to decide where the ball was going to be , and to hit it , are staggering , but I managed ( so long as I did not stop to ask how I was doing it ) . |
| 3 | I know that so long as I do n't manage to count up to one hundred before the spasm ceases , I shall live . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't mind what I do so long as I do n't have too many lines to learn . ’ |
| 5 | That 's none of my business so long as I do n't have to break any laws . |
| 6 | I 'm thinking there might be something wrong with my plan to wait as I close my eyes ( only to rest them ) , but even as I yawn and put my hands into my armpits I think a spot of rest is n't such a bad idea so long as I do n't fall asleep . |
| 7 | ‘ He has enough sauce for a king 's fool , but impudence I can stomach so long as I do n't have to ride something that big on my own . ’ |
| 8 | You 'd dock my pay soon enough if I did n't do everything you and Matey ordered me to do in my waking hours . ’ |
| 9 | The problem there was the children climbing the fence and with just having spent five hundred and eighty pounds putting a fence up , spent another fifty four pounds although it 's not in the budget , I accept that , er was er a necessary expenditure which I took a decision on straight away because I did n't want to see our five hundred pound fence being knocked down within a week of being put up . |
| 10 | They wo n't get anything until six months later anyway cos I did n't . |
| 11 | Patiently , the practitioner examined them , me and us , and proclaimed that I would probably be able to see jolly well if I did n't have them inside out and in the wrong eyes . |
| 12 | Patiently , the practitioner examined them , me and us , and proclaimed that I would probably be able to see jolly well if I did n't have them inside out and in the wrong eyes . |
| 13 | Er somebody said to me about her childhood experiences , well I did n't really survive them , I 'm just here still because I did n't die . |
| 14 | By then I realized it was all too late anyway so I did n't put up a fight . |
| 15 | Oh Charlie shut her up at , at Chris 's mums funeral , when we went to Chris 's mum funeral , she 's erm , she said something or other about , request something or other about , pointing at the I should n't 've been there really because I did n't know her and Charlie said she felt did n't know her and erm she said oh well Rose never spoke about her , or words to that effect , Chris says the reason our mum never spoke about her cos she never showed her face in here anyway , he said when was the last time you see your mum , at that , she shut straight up like that , her face went , she 'd like saying that I should n't 've been there cos I did n't know her , I mean yet , she ai n't set foot in the house for fucking year like , you know she 's a horrible cow , and like when we went in the church , when we went in the crematorium er you had , she had a nice , big one up on the hill is it Arnold 's ? |
| 16 | I got up quite late today as I do not do anything important and it is my one real chance for a lie-in . |
| 17 | ‘ When I was his age I said contentious things like he did last week , but I did not speak English very well so I did not get into trouble . ’ |
| 18 | Ambitious young curators have a different axe to grind and it worked out very well because I did n't produce that much . |
| 19 | ‘ Being blind means I have to listen very hard so I do n't get distracted by things around me . ’ |