Example sentences of "[vb base] i [verb] [not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | I I eat I do n't usually take my first lot of tablets till sort of around dinner time . |
2 | I mean I do n't particularly like |
3 | Yeah but I mean I do n't clearly remember an agreement like that meself and does |
4 | Er i this is why it 's important that you mix with people , that you get out and about , because if you find that everybody else is , is getting up the hill faster than you and everybody else is crossing the roads quicker than you and all the rest of it , it should tell you something , now I mean I do n't even want to go into competition but I think it is good occasionally to see if you can walk as fast as that eighteen year old in front of you . |
5 | So they wo n't do that , and of course it 's and the main thing that costs is the transport is every time you go on a bus you 're down to whatever it is two hundred pounds , and because of the two areas that we use , I mean we 're not gon na , I mean I do n't really know |
6 | I mean I did n't even have to look , you see , you |
7 | I mean I did n't even know how to do anything like that really |
8 | Falstaff as ‘ a masculine decayed cornucopious form of the love goddess ’ is amusing as a paradox , though how the boar can be both Mars and Persephone I do not quite see . |
9 | it asks you er what would you like to do with that and you say I do n't even know what it is ! |
10 | I think that 's a good enough reason , when I say I do n't particularly want to add anything else . |
11 | But as I say I do n't necessarily want to get involved in too much of the detail of the statistics of it , I simply want to make the overall point that we 've been told that there are three thousand unemployed . |
12 | I think I met her once , I said , ‘ Look I do n't really know what I 'm doing ’ . |
13 | you know I do n't really want |
14 | I mean , I mean I know I do n't really want to work with old age pensioners , but I start in a |
15 | I know , and this is what I said , he said I know I do n't really want the old vinyl , do it anyway |
16 | And I know I do n't really know . |
17 | ‘ I know I do n't always explain myself , but you must always do what I say . |
18 | really great it was , you know I did n't really think it would turn out as big as it has done you know , but it 's turned out beautiful has n't it really , yeah we was , I was thrilled especially when they built the new houses round the front we used to go and keep looking at them , little did I think I would get one , and the housing officer came one day and he said would you like one of the new ones , I said I would and it was four bedroom but we got , you see we 've got the other bedroom over my daughter-in-law 's , so me and hubby used to have the en right down a long passage and the bedroom was over like the sit you 've got a bedroom over the sitting room like see and she erm , we used to have so the children did n't make a noise to disturb her so my hubby and I had that room , yeah , it was quite nice it was , nice house , I erm , you know , enjoyed being there , bringing up the family , you want plenty of room you 've got a big family do n't you really ? |
19 | Today , I suppose I do n't exactly dislike my body , but neither do I like it much . |
20 | ‘ It was n't anything I said , Mr Gooseneck , but I suppose I do n't always keep my face impassive when the snuff takes over , as it were . ’ |
21 | I think I do n't even think about it . |
22 | I suppose some people might have but I think I did n't really want to face up to the fact that he might have been that man on the beach . ’ |
23 | Oh forgive me love I did n't even look to see what it was |
24 | Cos I have got a verruca the si anyway that 's a problem that I have I do n't really want to share it with you . |
25 | See I do n't really know much about planes to be honest with you . |
26 | Erm in fact you notice I did n't even make a note on it . |