Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] not [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I do not develop this aspect of the analysis here , I also suggest that the images or metaphors which are applied to define racism by analogy hold the key to understanding people 's emotional investment in antiracist positions . |
| 2 | Although I did not relish such conditions I reached the final quite easily ; but then disaster struck . |
| 3 | Although I did not get this trouble with my machines , we used to suffer badly when we first got our computer . |
| 4 | I am not a member of the Conservative party , so I do not receive this literature . |
| 5 | Although I was born at Sleetburn further up the dale , I came here when I was three years old , so I do not recall any other place as home . |
| 6 | And I shall die if I do not reach that rock . |
| 7 | Then I learned that if I did not make these payments I would be registered as a debtor for a period of six years . |
| 8 | ‘ Should you come to town , I am sorry that I can not offer you a home pro tempore — pro trumpery indeed it would be , if I did not make any such offer — for unless you occupied the grate as a seat — I see no probability of your finding any rest consonant with the safety of my parrots — seeing , that of the six chairs I possess — 5 are at present occupied with lithographic prints : — the whole of my exalted & delightful upper tenement in fact overflows with them , and for the last 12 months I have so moved — thought — looked at , — & existed among parrots — that should any transmigration take place at my decease I am sure my soul would be very uncomfortable in anything but one of the psittacidae . ’ |
| 9 | I certainly agree that I would not be wholly confident of the conclusion about tunnelling if I did not know that rigorous calculations with the Schrödinger equation lead to the same conclusion . |
| 10 | If I did not add this information , I felt I should be told that he had never heard of M. Guérigny . |
| 11 | It was a fair result , because I did not think either side did enough to win . ’ |
| 12 | I was nervous because I did not have any friends and I was worried that I would be on my own . |
| 13 | Mine , at any rate , after the initial angers and resentments , has lingered on to this day , and I think there has never been a rime when I did not remember that love and think of Dana . |
| 14 | Anyway the next day they were on the er if machine is not clean when I come in then I should not run as I did not run this morning for four hours as I might as well come in on Saturday morning and clean them myself So she in . |
| 15 | As I do not have any record of Richard Bean being a shareholder in Cotswold Steam Preservations , he would not be expected to know the background to 2807 's history since being rescued by our society in 1980 . |
| 16 | Much as I would like to assist the hon. Gentleman , I can not as I do not accept that transport for students at boards of management colleges should remain with education authorities . |
| 17 | One of them — a little old-fashioned perhaps , for I do not see many people doing it nowadays — is to walk around it guide-book in hand , best of all with one of those old Murray 's Handbooks for Travellers , the most catholic , the most informative , the most solid guide-books ever written in this country ; still well worth buying though the last one came out nearly fifty years ago and one must hunt for them with increasing difficulty in the second-hand bookshops . |
| 18 | Later , in The Use of Poetry , he links in one sentence Fitzgerald and Buddhism : ‘ I am not a Buddhist , but some of the early Buddhist scriptures affect me as parts of the Old Testament do ; I can still enjoy Fitzgerald 's Omar , though I do not hold that rather smart and shallow view of life . ’ |