Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] not even [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I do not even care ; I do n't know that , either . |
| 2 | It was a Frankie Howerd interview that made me realise I do not even want one . |
| 3 | I do n't know how to — I do not even want to — dispel this cold mist left over from the fog . |
| 4 | ‘ I do not even want to share you with him . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I am numb , I do not even feel anger towards whoever did it . ’ |
| 6 | And she thought , guiltily , I do not even feel guilty . |
| 7 | I am dying , she thought , as her forehead broke out into a fine sweat , I do not even have to think of it , my mind is on other things , but there is a disturbance , quite plainly to be felt , in the mechanism of my heart . |
| 8 | But I do not even have a vocabulary to describe the distinctive tang of a pear or a peach . |
| 9 | I do not even acknowledge them as my own . ’ |
| 10 | I do not even like to see her , it makes me uncomfortable and I wish her gone , as quickly as possible . ’ |
| 11 | The carving is of a quality I do not even understand . |
| 12 | Still , I have no intention of prescribing a correct attitude towards difference , even less a correct theory of difference ; I do not even know what the latter could possibly be . |
| 13 | I do not even know if I should . ’ |
| 14 | In some cases , I do not even know what my own opinion is . |
| 15 | I did not even complain to the British Medical Association — as I was in law entitled so to do — about the gross impertinence of a certain toothy and incompetent doctor in this very borough who imagined in his stupidity that I was incapable of reading upside-down the notes he was making on the other side of a desk at which I was once unwise enough to sit . |
| 16 | I did not even wonder mildly what on earth the S.S.O. of Benedict 's was doing on the Downshurst bypass on a mid-week morning . |
| 17 | I did not even discuss terms with Wimbledon and I would have been quite happy to sign for Newcastle . |
| 18 | Perhaps I did not even know it . |
| 19 | Most difficult of all , admits , is setting foreign language puzzles : ‘ I translated some puzzles into Russian once , which was not easy since I did not even know the Cyrillic alphabet ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You have both helped Ana and I did not even have the right to ask . |
| 21 | He was bigger than I and he grabbed me by my Sidcot collar and hauled me in the direction of the CFI 's office , I did not even have time to shake off my parachute before we burst into the " Holiest of Holies " . |
| 22 | Thinking of him again made me so wretched that on my way back into the department I did not even notice the owner of the hand that held open the door for me , until I chanced to notice Dr Jones watching from outside his office . |
| 23 | ‘ Perhaps you are , although I did not even imply it . ’ |
| 24 | Sally-Anne had one pain , one memory of which she dared not even think for fear that she would lose all command of herself , one memory which she always pushed away when it tried to attack her . |
| 25 | It was completely dark and she dared not even put the light on to look at her watch . |
| 26 | I understand you did not even pay her for her work . |
| 27 | A talent , It is said , hits a target : a genius hits something you did not even know was there . |
| 28 | You did not even know Russell . ’ |
| 29 | The wonderful thing about a consumer culture is that the stores have everything you want — more miraculously they have things you did not even know you wanted : like a wall-sized television set . |
| 30 | I plead for help , to you who caused my suffering , and you do not even bother to reply ! |