Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adv] i " in BNC.
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1 | Carrie said , ‘ I 'll not stay where I 'm not wanted so you need n't think it ! ’ mimicking Hepzibah in a determined mood , and Albert laughed briefly . |
2 | . It 's not raining now I could have put everything out . |
3 | I was therefore delighted to read in chapter three that the author , talking about oversimplified reasoning in music says , ‘ … . it does not explain why I respond with goose-pimples to Bach 's Kyrie every time I listen to it . ’ |
4 | I could not explain how I felt other than very special . |
5 | I do not know why I did it . |
6 | I do not know why I can not speak … and then a voice called her name . |
7 | ‘ I do not know why I even trust you , but I have no men trained to use their hearts in the way you are able to as a gift of Ptah . |
8 | ‘ I do not know why I should tell you , ’ he said . |
9 | I did not know where I was , but that did not stop me saying , ‘ I 'm here ’ . |
10 | It would be absurd if my wife were to accuse me of using the word ‘ here ’ without meaning , since I did not know where I was . |
11 | ‘ She does not know where I am . |
12 | His company decimated by murderous shell-fire even before reaching the objective , Jubert found himself alone , possibly the only surviving officer , and sent off a message to his battalion commander : ‘ I do not know where I am , but the position is of the first importance , and I have only ten men to hold it . ’ |
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14 | I do not know how I shall manage this winter and dread it not for the weather which is rarely fierce , but for the loneliness . |
15 | I do not know how I came through the next few months — but , yes , I do . |
16 | I do not know how I could have coped without you and your friends here . ’ |
17 | I do not know how I can have fathered such children . |
18 | Joking apart , after nine years as a security operator I found it hard to readjust my life but , now I do not know how I found the time to do a full time job . |
19 | If this is not happening then I suspect fuel starvation . |
20 | Owner Karen Alexander said at her home in Middlewood Road , Sheffield , South Yorkshire : ‘ I can not describe how I feel about the people who have done this . |
21 | ‘ Sorry , not looking where I 'm going . |
22 | If it 's not written down I do n't know when they 've had or what they 've had , you 'll have to write it down and put a date on it . |
23 | Small world then , life 's I mean erm , child seat , there was one child seat in that was strapped to the and erm there was erm the , the other car seats in the front of the not strapped in I had to hurry up and put them in the back , cos I was running a bit late I was running a bit late anyway . |
24 | Had he not done so I could not have gone to Eton , and should have been deprived of one of the most formative influences in my life . |
25 | In those days there seemed so many vistas ahead that I did not mind when I began to go public : it was sufficiently gratifying to feel that Eliot wanted to print some of my work in his good time and in mine . |
26 | And they could not understand why I refused to baptise their baby . |
27 | She did not understand why I wanted to leave her . |
28 | But I was sure he did not understand why I had come . |
29 | We were climbing away at a very gentle angle and I could not understand why I could not move the controls . |
30 | ‘ I 'm not bitter though I can not understand why I 'm not rated in the top 50 in the world . |