Example sentences of "i did not [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I did not send them to school again for many years .
2 My obligation to Harry is sacred for his father 's sake , even if I did not love him like my own .
3 Also , the other reason that I did not leave it in the centre of the airfield was that the flares , the gooseneck flares ( a device with paraffin and a sort of rough wick ) , were laid out for night flying .
4 I did not want him to be alone with Otto .
5 A fourth option I did not mention it in Committee is to sell the property separately but arrange for it to be leased to the bus operating company .
6 I started by saying to Harold that I had been told about his Honours List — I did not tell him by whom — and I hoped that what I heard was mistaken .
7 that does n't bother me , but considering it was only the second I 'd spoken to him and I did not fancy him in the least erm , it really made my skin crawl .
8 I did not intend it to be .
9 It was a lot stronger than I had imagined and so I did not treat it with the necessary respect .
10 I did not mean it at all , I thought it was vaguely amusing .
11 No — ’ he quickly laid his hand on Owen 's arm in the Arab way — ‘ I did not mean it like that .
12 As this turns up later in the memoir , I need only report that , out of dissatisfaction , I scrapped the manuscript more than once , and therefore I did not show it to Eliot just then .
13 I did not bring it for that purpose , ’ said Andrus hoarsely .
14 I did not ask them about you , I asked about Jeopardy . ’
15 I did not know it at the time , but Helmut knew that Jean-Claude was still seeing Otto .
16 Then , although I did not believe them for a moment , I stored them away in my memory against a rainy day .
17 But , for the very last time , I did not follow you to Slane .
18 While they provide a context in which to appraise the changes made by the Act of 1935 , which was I think the purpose for which Mr. Whitaker cited them , I did not find them of direct assistance .
19 I did not find them in Giffen .
20 He added : ‘ I was in a place once when a man fired a gun at me and I did not like it at all .
21 Even I did not recognise him from his actions . ’
22 After the controversy over last week 's leak I would not have announced our move and I did not reveal it at our annual meeting .
23 you do not mind my taking this method of answering your letter and I hope that you , I did not put you to too much trouble to locate a recorder to listen to the tape , I am just too lazy to write it all down and think that what I have to say I can put it better in words than what I can on paper , I 'll let you do that part .
24 But it was for a reason that would cut no ice with Jean-Claude and so I did not put it to him .
25 Of course I did not see it like that at the time .
26 I did not see it like this at the time , but arched
27 I confess I did not remember her at all , but I have been in so many hoses , I suppose it is only natural … "
28 I did n't recognize you without the dog ! ’ some of them said .
29 A reader has suggested that the belated realization that you 're talking to an ex-lover is best expressed by the old Tallulah Bankhead crack : ‘ I did n't recognize you with your clothes on . ’
30 But I did n't recognize you at first .
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