Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | Luckily I did not know what half the appliances were … ‘ |
2 | I had already run three miles , and my boots were too heavy for sprinting — besides I did not want to catch the gang in front . |
3 | Perhaps you would rather I did not speak like this . " |
4 | I could , to be sure , scribble off things the whole day long , but a composition of this kind goes out into the world , and naturally I do not want to have cause to be ashamed of my name on the title-page . |
5 | Naturally I did not do quite that sort of thing again . ’ |
6 | You know nothing of the world in which you have come to live , and I should have warned you about Rose , only I did not know that you were going out with her until after you had gone , and then , of course , it was too late . ’ |
7 | ‘ Perhaps I do not want to know you either , mademoiselle , ’ he rasped . |
8 | You came here once before asking questions and perhaps I did not give you the best answers . ’ |
9 | Elizabeth Adams : ‘ I think perhaps I did not require from Somerville as much as I might here , fromJean Stanier : ‘ Somehow the fact that it was wartime put a sharper edge on things , as if we had to make the most of something that might not last ’ . |
10 | ‘ I think perhaps I did not work hard enough at my marriage , ’ she admits now . |
11 | ‘ Perhaps I did not hear . ’ |
12 | Obviously I do not know but , if I had to bet , I would put my money on one fundamental principle . |
13 | Personally I do not go to meetings which do not have a purpose . |
14 | Personally I do not believe that if there is some global warning , so-called , it will endanger our planet or its inhabitants . |
15 | In order to do so I do not feel that it is necessary to ‘ prove ’ the existence of God in the sense of demonstrating with mathematical certainty that He exists . |
16 | So I do not say , ‘ Believe me , for I can not tell a lie . ’ |
17 | So I do not have grounds for my judgment or my exclamation . ’ |
18 | Why that is so I do not know . |
19 | So I do not know him well . |
20 | So I do not believe |
21 | So I do not hear it . |
22 | So I did not feel too unhappy at leaving ‘ The Western ’ premises . |
23 | It was a lot stronger than I had imagined and so I did not treat it with the necessary respect . |
24 | Even so I did not expect my feet to be trouble-free after using them for the first time on a full day 's hiking in the Purbeck Hills . |
25 | But it was for a reason that would cut no ice with Jean-Claude and so I did not put it to him . |
26 | So I did not spend all my time peering upwards , searching the skies for those rumoured golden eagles . |
27 | I am not ignoring that it may be said that this in one sense is proving idem per idem , but none the less I do not think the fact can be ignored . |
28 | How the poor fellow finally got his report together I do not know but I doubt that even he did n't realise that he was dealing with a supernatural force that did what it liked when it liked . |
29 | Then somehow she was spreadeagled along the seat and he was half-kneeling , half -lying on top of her and suddenly she did not think that what was between her legs was his finger . |
30 | The problem with the AIDS vaccine might be that if you have a vaccine which would be able to suppress a particular virus strain er which would induce immunity against a particular virus strain , then necessarily you do not have a vaccine which can provide immunity against another virus strain . |