Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] i [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sister Paul would pretend not to see me as I hung about outside around the staffroom to see her pass by for the third time that day . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , I think that this needs saying , quite calmly and objectively , in this commentary , which will not spare me when I have done badly or in the wrong spirit or left half-done , but will not either , in a spirit of false modesty , gloss over those things in my life and work which have been a success , even , mildly , a triumph . |
| 3 | Indeed , I have every reason to believe that Father did not regard me as decorative at all . |
| 4 | I can trust Hugo not to treat me as I have Ken treat Wendy in Lover at the Gate and , if he did , I would never indulge him as Wendy did Ken . |
| 5 | He recognised himself , but did not recognise me when we switched on The Railway Children some months ago . |
| 6 | No , triumph will not suit me till I get to heaven … |
| 7 | You do not know me and so you can not be expected to take anything on trust . |
| 8 | Erm well perhaps you , you wou would you er let me perhaps er well not let me but perhaps I could ring a few of erm those people just to have a chat with them and perhaps put , you know , talk about the er planning your future exercise with them as well , could you , would you give me some numbers please ? |
| 9 | I admit that I have been known to curse on occasion and I often talk to my machine telling it ‘ You will not beat me so you 'd better start behaving ! ’ |
| 10 | At this stage in the period preceding the Budget , he will not expect me or any of my right hon. Friends to say anything about specific tax matters . |
| 11 | ‘ Isa has not seen me since the happy news and it is that which restores me to near my old self . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I politely asked him not to bully me but that infuriated him . |
| 13 | He shook his head doubtfully as if he did not believe me but did n't want to be harsh about saying so . |
| 14 | But erm this might not believe me but I 'm gon na tell you just the same . |
| 15 | He nodded and did not follow me as I got off the train . |
| 16 | It is true that I can not become you , you can not become me and Blake could not be Beethoven . |
| 17 | But these people 's delusions do not convince me that Satan is a fiction , and psychological arguments against him by psychiatrists have no philosophical bite that carries conviction . |
| 18 | I wondered why McIllvanney had not told me that Rickie and Robin-Anne Crowninshield were drug addicts , then I realised that McIllvanney would not have told me anything that might have risked my acceptance of the charter , but now that I had learned that the twins had such a severe drug problem I was even less keen to take on the job . |
| 19 | Even Moses , when he asked to see God 's glory , was told , ‘ You can not see my face ; for man shall not see me and live ’ ( Exod. |
| 20 | PAMELA : I can not say what you ought to do , but only beg you will not ruin me and if you think me virtuous let me go to my poor parents . |
| 21 | He did not recognize me but I knew he was the gentleman I had met on the stairs when visiting Miss Havisham . |
| 22 | There was not enough action and they were just too predictable , that they simply did not scare me but surely the point of a horror book is to scare you ? |
| 23 | I feel obliged to tell this to you as a warning , and in the hope that you will be able to understand and not judge me when attacks strike . |
| 24 | Although self-image does not obsess me as it once did , my interest continues and I find it exciting how fashions and looks have changed ; how many more possibilities there are for creativity and self-expression via clothes and image . |
| 25 | ‘ Although I have not seen the report , it does not surprise me that the Rover Group was sold for a song . |
| 26 | It does not surprise me that the Minister does not want to know the facts . |
| 27 | Nobody knew there were any in the loch but then we only got the one and it would not surprise me if he had not eaten all the others if there had been any others that is . |
| 28 | ‘ Not less than ten thousand pounds a year I 'd guess … canny old fool in command … would not surprise me if … but convinced can succeed … patience and patience is all … please keep up your letters to Colonel the Honourable A. A. Hope , M.P . ’ |
| 29 | This is usual for the first week after a strike but it would not surprise me if things began to happen later in the week . |
| 30 | The common people do not blame me or my husband for Buckingham 's downfall but say his fate was star-crossed by this house . |