Example sentences of "and i [verb] [not/n't] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was still living with my parents at the time and I 'd not long passed my driving test — with Bernie 's assistance — so I borrowed my old man 's Austin Cambridge one Sunday morning and drove over to Nick 's . |
| 2 | Access is easy , for although the car parks are few , they are strategically placed , and I 've not yet come across a walker with tales of local farmers barring the way . |
| 3 | And I 've not even took them out the thing . |
| 4 | Well I did n't go , no , cos Chris int going , so I did n't bother going but I must admit , I mean , when she gave me the papers and what have you that goes with it , I come home , I put it in the cupboard and I 've not even looked at it since . |
| 5 | ‘ There is much to say and I know not where to begin . |
| 6 | Each of them has reached me and I know not how to save myself . ’ |
| 7 | But on the Sunday , perhaps because it was a strange town and I had not yet made friends , I felt all day a sense of doom . |
| 8 | It was half past ten in the morning , twenty-four hours after arriving in Reggane and I had not yet left . |
| 9 | Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished . |
| 10 | And I had not even asked him for his name ! |
| 11 | That was confidence — the first man to carry his own food and water across the Sahara , and I had not even left the main road yet . |
| 12 | He 'd said too much — and I had n't even begun to cotton on . |
| 13 | I used to sit outside the job centre , then come home and say , " I have applied , but I had to send in an application form " , and I had n't even gone in there . |
| 14 | My first deadline was the end of last March , and I had n't even started thinking about it by then . |
| 15 | Would I perhaps welcome the security of a helicopter , or welcome the security of waking up in bed to find that it was all a dream and I had n't actually gone hill-walking at all because I had a date with Gerard Depardieu ? |
| 16 | I have not yet been given any reason for our lack of success on this occasion , and I do not yet know which were the successful applicants . |
| 17 | When the over ended he took the umpire aside and explained ‘ I have two artificial hips and I do not really know where my feet are going to land ’ — he was given a special Man of the Match award . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've given a lot of blood , sweat and tears and I do n't just want to pass it all on for somebody else to inherit . |
| 19 | I suppose there 's always nutters about , but there is something special about the band , and I do n't just mean their liability to lawsuits . |
| 20 | And I do n't just mean the belief that you 're trying to communicate . |
| 21 | ‘ The universities have a lot to offer industry , and industry has a lot to offer universities , and I do n't just mean money , ’ he said . |
| 22 | And I do n't even do n't I ? |
| 23 | But there 's a lot of incidents that I do that I just go out , clear it up and I do n't even report a lot of them because you 're only making paperwork for yourself . |
| 24 | I look at it and I do n't even see it . |
| 25 | Now I 'm standing here in this thing and I do n't even know if I 've got it on back to front or not . ’ |
| 26 | And I do n't even know your name , ’ she confessed ruefully . |
| 27 | I mean goodness he would be inhuman if he was n't erm and I do n't yet feel safe that he 's his own man . |
| 28 | ‘ You can , ’ came the reply , ‘ there 's a spiral staircase inside , I gather , but the gamekeeper lives there now and I do n't particularly want to meet him . ’ |
| 29 | I 'm sure he 's going to be fine , but I think I 'll have to make it clear that I did actually have a life before he came along , and I do n't particularly want to do everything with him ! |
| 30 | No , I ca n't do it now not in front of Cathy and that lot , they 'll think me a little slag and I do n't particularly want that image . |