Example sentences of "i [verb] not [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best way of doing this is perhaps to follow the advice of Ruth Rendell ( Read her books ) who once said , " I try not to make errors in my descriptions of police work : I accomplish that largely by leaving it out . " |
| 2 | I do not expect shame from Ministers , but I should have thought that all the Ministers present , and all the others who might come in later , would be a little wary about pressing this matter . |
| 3 | I do not mean computers with human emotions or humanoids with computer brains . |
| 4 | I want to ensure that the genuine claims of those who are in need are dealt with properly , promptly and accurately , I do not want campaigns to be organised on the basis that people sign a piece of paper that has been delivered to them by a welfare rights organisation . |
| 5 | ‘ While I am pursuing the offender I do not want blood on the streets . ’ |
| 6 | I desire the reader to remember that I do not make use of the word people for the mere vulgar or mobile , but for the whole community , consisting of clergy , nobility and commons … |
| 7 | ‘ I do not miss Wakelate at all . |
| 8 | Well , in sum , I do not lay hands on my staff , however much they attract me . |
| 9 | I am not ambitious , I do not seek answers to large questions , she would say . |
| 10 | As a former Lambeth housing chairman , I do not take lectures from anyone in Lambeth about housing . |
| 11 | As a member of the ‘ shadow board ’ of the Football League , with whom the Professional Footballers ' Association have no quarrel , propriety demands that I do not take sides in the dispute between the Premier League and the PFA . |
| 12 | The hon. Gentleman , who is an old parliamentary hand , knows that I do not take points of order until after the statement . |
| 13 | He added , ‘ I do not put blame on the child exactly , but I do believe she was the aggressor5 . ’ |
| 14 | I do not romanticise agony as a virtue , nor imagine that it makes me superior . |
| 15 | They inspect my passport and I do not find favour in their eyes . |
| 16 | However I do not recall hearing of any problem every being experienced by low-flying military hardware or cruise-level GA over Madley Earth Station which I managed for several years prior to my retirement last year , and which I believe is a much larger facility than Oakhanger . |
| 17 | Clearly the scene was beautiful , even though I do not see London as my city . |
| 18 | He said he could not serve on that sub-committeee ( consisting of Brian Close , Bob Appleyard , Phil Sharpe , Bryan Stott , Tony Woodhouse ) ‘ when I do not see eye to eye with them on any subject ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ I do not judge countries by their geniuses . |
| 20 | I do not deny uniformitarianism in its true sense , that is to say , of interpreting the past by means of the processes that we see going on at the present day , so long as we remember that the periodic catastrophe ( including sudden events like the rush of a turbidity current ) is one of those processes . |
| 21 | So I do not have grounds for my judgment or my exclamation . ’ |
| 22 | For those who are knowledgeable and have thought about the subject , ( I do not include politicians of any party in this category , unless they are foxhunters ) foxhunting is not a cruel way of killing foxes ; long may it flourish , for the sake of the fox . |
| 23 | I learned not to confuse sentiment with sentimentality — one is in fact a negation of the other . ’ |
| 24 | I swear I did not send men to Godstowe , though I would love to know who did . |
| 25 | This was a very old set and did not always work ; as I did not make contact with the control tower I came round and I saw that it was all clear for me to land , so I put my wheels down and made my approach . |
| 26 | ‘ I did not make love to her , Leonora , ’ he said forcibly . |
| 27 | I did not tell Dana about it . |
| 28 | ‘ I did not mean risk with me , ’ he answered , annoyed , ‘ but it is trying to rain and your dress is not covered . ’ |
| 29 | While I did not lose interest in this problem it became clear , after observing a series of routine cases , that medical evidence was often far less important than I had previously imagined . |
| 30 | I did not dare walk in the forest or the field . |