Example sentences of "i [verb] not [adv] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this instance , I do not particularly welcome this debate , because I regret having to make these points tonight in this way . |
| 2 | Erm , I do not personally like that because I like the discipline of writing things out again for reasons which I will explain in boring detail in a while . |
| 3 | I do not therefore think either of these cases successfully enables counsel for the yard to avoid the rule in Stilk v. Myrick … |
| 4 | At Faringdon 's , the singers stood on chairs but I do not usually do this if I sing the song with children . |
| 5 | I do not entirely decry such tactics . |
| 6 | But by language I do not only mean that of spoken words or written symbols . |
| 7 | Our discussions ranged through the whole spectrum of life , from the sublime to the trivial , and while I do not now remember many of the conclusions that we reached then , the quality of that communication is still with me . |
| 8 | If I did not already have these , I would probably stock a few Congo Tetras to liven up the surface layers , which would also be more in keeping with the African origins of the Synodontis . |
| 9 | I did not then know any literary people , and my first contact with Ivy ( at one remove ) was when Spencer Curtis-Brown ( later to become literary executor of Elizabeth Bowen and Somerset Maugham ) accepted the agency of my first novel late in 1937 . |