Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When asked by a pompous college dean , ‘ My good man , I do not think I know you ? |
| 2 | ‘ I was playing in a particular game and did not think I had done anything spectacular at all when I was approached by Heffernan who told me that he wanted me for the Ireland team to play Australia in the Compromise Rules series , ’ recalls McGilligan . |
| 3 | I do not think I deserved this sort of treatment . |
| 4 | I do not think I knew who Plato was at the time , but I enjoyed hearing Mr Crossman speak , and seeing the other pupils , although they were mostly people thought of in the town as being particularly well-educated already . |
| 5 | Even so , if you consider the pressures contingent on me that night , you may not think I delude myself unduly if I go so far as to suggest that I did perhaps display , in the face of everything , at least in some modest degree a ‘ dignity ’ worthy of someone like Mr Marshall — or come to that , my father . |
| 6 | In view of the persons who will be present , I do not think I exaggerate . ’ |
| 7 | I did not think I noticed as the car drew level |
| 8 | Thee will not think I talk figuratively when I tell thee that his pine apple stove is sixty feet long , twenty feet wide and height proportionable . |
| 9 | But I do not think I have to worry about it — there is , oh there is , there really is , another kind of light between these walls , too luminous for words . |
| 10 | I do not think I have the strength . |
| 11 | After his signature , he added : ‘ P.S. Do not think I stole the plate , linen , etc. from you . |
| 12 | I use to dread going in to work — in the two years I worked for the Inland Revenue I do not think I worked a full month — and in the end I left . |
| 13 | cos it 's not raining I do n't know what I 'm talking about |
| 14 | ‘ You 're not suggesting I turn up like Lady Godiva ? |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I 'm not sayin' I believe it , mind , but I want to know about that happy-birthday message . |
| 16 | Macbeth defends but at the same time accuses himself ; ‘ Thou canst not say I did it : never shake/Thy gory locks at me ’ ( 50f . ) . |
| 17 | In order not to freeze I installed a wood-burning stove . |
| 18 | My ears were burning , and my left shin throbbed as if it did not know I had stopped walking . |
| 19 | He did not know I had read his notes and I did not confess I had , but he elaborated on what I had read , and I was convinced he had right on his side — if not prudence . |
| 20 | He assured Helen , ‘ I did not know I loved you so tenderly until this trial , sweetheart ’ . |
| 21 | When he was not looking I came down and took the car . |
| 22 | When I am not writing I draw . |
| 23 | But you can not expect I mean we was actually lucky there was a job there now , when it closed down . |
| 24 | Age does not matter I like reading , travelling , making friends and photography . |
| 25 | ‘ Now will you wait for me here in the dark till I take back the keys , and not imagine I 've locked you in to starve ? |
| 26 | I 've started I 've not written I know but I 've started |
| 27 | A disobedient Norfolk farm boy was propelled into a lifetime of professional poaching by the combination of a harsh , flogging father , who for years ‘ never spoke to me nor owned me ’ , and an entertaining , caring grandfather who had poached himself : ‘ I 'm not shure I did not inherit some of my sporting ways from him . ’ |
| 28 | If this is not done I do n't think there will be any credibility left for any of us in the international community or in the United Nations . ’ |
| 29 | If you had not confessed I think I would have beaten it out of you . ’ |
| 30 | I can honestly say now I do not feel I have subsequently ever lost a race I would have won had I been allowed to use the whip . ’ |