Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] not [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd not had Louisa I do n't suppose I would have pushed myself when I had the job interview . |
| 2 | I 'd been doing press and touring and all that lot for two years without a break , I 'd not had time to change or take anything in . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd not forgotten Mr Ashenden , ’ said Morse quietly , opening the passenger door . |
| 4 | You see , I 'd mentioned the fact that I 'd seen this chap several mornings hanging about in the Cove , so I decided not to take Miss Celia down there for a bit , even though we were having a real Indian summer that year . |
| 5 | I woke early , and when I looked out of the window , I saw two men examining our boat , but I decided not to wake Herbert or Startop , who needed their rest after rowing all the previous day . |
| 6 | ‘ I decided not to play rugby this term . |
| 7 | I chose not to use swimfeeders because of the patchy carpet of algae on the bottom . |
| 8 | I dared not tell Mamma , or she would begin to badger me again to give up my job … |
| 9 | I learned not to confuse sentiment with sentimentality — one is in fact a negation of the other . ’ |
| 10 | Although I did not conduct field research in Nigeria , I visited that country in 1975 , 1978 and 1981 . |
| 11 | I did not think £9 too much for a fine steak , or £150 too much for the sort of weekend that would cost £200 in Edinburgh or London . |
| 12 | Mark : I was in a relationship from about 1981 to 1984 and , in a sense , I did not think AIDS affected me very greatly and it was not very high in my consciousness . |
| 13 | I swear I did not send men to Godstowe , though I would love to know who did . |
| 14 | I did not usurp power but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power , in other words this is the modesty part I acted for the public welfare , I acted for the common wellbeing of all our people whenever and in whatever manner was necessary unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition Roosevelt suggested that the president subject only to the people of the United States and he identified himself with Andrew Jackson and with Abraham Lincoln . |
| 15 | ‘ I did not offer Dustin the role as insurance for American release , ’ insisted Germi . |
| 16 | I wanted a wet/dry type of trickle filter for use with the vat mainly because I did not want water retained in the filter for any length of time — this could have caused weight problems . |
| 17 | ‘ I did not want things that Picasso gave Douglas and me coming on the market , and Billy very decently gave me the drawing ’ . |
| 18 | Their message was : ‘ You see why I did not want Mrs. Bonnard to hear this . ’ |
| 19 | I was glad to see there were no towns here , because I did not want people to question me or pity me . |
| 20 | I did not want Jean-Claude to think I thought of his work only in terms of the money it might earn . |
| 21 | This was a very old set and did not always work ; as I did not make contact with the control tower I came round and I saw that it was all clear for me to land , so I put my wheels down and made my approach . |
| 22 | ‘ I did not make love to her , Leonora , ’ he said forcibly . |
| 23 | I did not tell Dana about it . |
| 24 | I did not begrudge Wilson this , since I had no wish for my own part to be revealed , but for some reason best known to himself he decided that he would at least claim the credit for having found me . |
| 25 | ‘ I did not mean risk with me , ’ he answered , annoyed , ‘ but it is trying to rain and your dress is not covered . ’ |
| 26 | I did not regard Harold Wilson as a wit , nor was his conversation particularly spiced with humour , but it was immensely interesting because he would talk to me about his problems and their supposed solutions , and seemingly consult me on the matter — he was a very polite man — although I was conscious that on most political issues my own opinion was pretty well valueless and he recognised that . |
| 27 | I did not visit Simon Foreman . |
| 28 | ‘ When I was his age I said contentious things like he did last week , but I did not speak English very well so I did not get into trouble . ’ |
| 29 | As you might expect , I did not take Mr Farraday 's suggestion at all seriously that afternoon , regarding it as just another instance of an American gentleman 's unfamiliarity with what was and what was not commonly done in England . |
| 30 | I did not buy poisons . |