Example sentences of "i [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 . |