Example sentences of "do [not/n't] [vb infin] i [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | If you do not arrive I will leave the pics in the dustbin . |
2 | ‘ But I do not feel I can do justice to that need here , in the uncomfortable cold of this cave . |
3 | Frankfurt Dear Professor , I do not feel I can talk about my parents . |
4 | Martin Heslop , prosecuting , said : ‘ I do not feel I can ask a jury to convict with the measure of certainty required . ’ |
5 | And I do not think I 'll make it to inspector ( to inspector ) |
6 | Now I have nothing against Terry as a person , although I do not think I would cross the road to help him if he were run over by a lorry , but that is neither here nor there . |
7 | I do not think I need say anything about what is known as the three-mile limit . |
8 | ‘ Effendi , ’ he whispered , ‘ I — I do not think I should say . ’ |
9 | ‘ I really do not think I could manage my affairs without her assistance . ’ |
10 | If I had not had the support of Project 81 members , the head of care at Le Court and other friends , I do not think I could have survived . |
11 | Another asked for the name of a good travel agent , while a third declared : ‘ I do not think I can bear another five years of Andrew Lloyd Webber ; I 'm off . ’ |
12 | Let us pretend that it is only that Grainne is too far above me , and let us continue the pretence , for I do not think I can bear it any other way . |
13 | I do not think I can bear this , thought Grainne , but even as the thought was framed , she knew that for someone it had had to be borne , there had been no escaping it , this bottomless dark pit , this vast endless night sea … |
14 | I am afraid that I must say frankly that I do not think I can open the columns of the Q.R. — at any rate , at present — to any one associated publicly with such a publication as Blast . |
15 | I do not think I can give the petitioner superior rights . |
16 | I do not think I can do any more . |
17 | A : Well if you do n't go I 'll go . |
18 | Oh well you had to notif take doctor 's note in you see , oh yes er doctor 's note and erm we were allowed , but erm fortunately I did n't have to have much time off , I 've been really fortunate that way , but erm I do n't think I would do anything that 's different to what I have done because it 's hard to prepare me for how I am now that 's how I look at things , and er the trouble I had with my husband it 's helped me to prepare myself for doing the garden , I 'd done the front garden when the gardeners came this morning . |
19 | I do n't think I would 've been married fifty eight years . |
20 | If I had something important to say on television I do n't think I would choose a Sunday afternoon . |
21 | erm I , I erm , I am actually dead against this for various reasons , and I do n't think I would bring up all the reasons that I am , because some of them are not absolutely purely planning reasons , which should n't be aired at this meeting , but I do feel that the provision there for thirty six properties will create a traffic hazard , and access problems , which , which I feel will support this Council at the , the traffic authority after having done a sufficiently detailed survey , I think was the problem , was n't it ? |
22 | ‘ I do n't think I would benefit . |
23 | However , I do n't think I would stop playing my Gibson ES175 to play that all the time . |
24 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
25 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
26 | I am really glad of it ; I do n't think I would want them to be there , just in case I lost . |
27 | ‘ Well , no dear , I do n't think I would mistake you for a stook of corn . |
28 | I I do n't think I would go . |
29 | I am unemployed , but even if I was working I do n't think I would lay out all the expense to travel to London . |
30 | I am unemployed , but even if I was working I do n't think I would lay out all the expense to travel to London . |