Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [not/n't] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I used to encourage his own poetry , and his ideas for poetic themes , even when I knew they were poor or did not interest me . |
| 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 | The man talked non-stop and did not expect me to contribute . |
| 4 | I once used Body Positive to put someone recently diagnosed in touch , and I once went to a THT Safe Sex talk out of interest , but the latter was like going to a CHE ( Campaign for Homosexual Equality ) meeting for the first time and did not tell me anything I did not already know . |
| 5 | She was astounded , and did not make me much wiser . ’ |
| 6 | He said nothing , but frowned , and did not encourage me to enter . |
| 7 | He nodded and did not follow me as I got off the train . |
| 8 | They threw me from the battlements into the sea , but the rocks were merciless and did not kill me , though I have never longed for death so much as I did then . |
| 9 | I 'd lost my helmet getting into the cab — and did n't realise I was n't wearing protective gloves until I noticed soot on my hands . ’ |
| 10 | But they took me away after that awful morning and did n't send me back to Byron House for another year and a half . |
| 11 | Did her own work and did n't expect me to clear up after her . |
| 12 | ‘ He played tennis on a high level for two and half hours , and did n't give me time to breathe , and that caught me by surprise a little bit , ’ said Boris Becker , his prize scalp , after the German had lost . |
| 13 | Unfortunately it kept to the tops of the trees and did n't give me any chance of pictures . |
| 14 | You did n't do the work at all and did n't give me the book either . |
| 15 | His father was staying in the same house , and did n't know I was staying there , so I used to creep in at night . |
| 16 | She was looking the other way and did n't see me . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Mum was initially cooperative … and Mr Peel was likewise ‘ quite cooperative ’ ’ until the decision was made to Statement … after that he opted out and did n't contact me . ’ |
| 18 | and because she was in Mustique and had n't bought me a birthday present she made sure that there were two Gardenia plants at the party that night she bought me . |
| 19 | Perhaps , they said , he was married or engaged and had not told me the truth about himself . |
| 20 | My father knew all this , but did not tell me . |
| 21 | ‘ He gave me much time and attention but did not allow me to waste a minute ; he left me fully free to express my feelings and thoughts but did not hesitate to present his own ; he offered me space to deliberate about choices and to make decisions but did not withhold his opinion that some choices and decisions were better than others ; he let me find my own way but did not hide the map that showed the right direction . |
| 22 | He rose , but did not kiss me . |
| 23 | He recognised himself , but did not recognise me when we switched on The Railway Children some months ago . |
| 24 | She was facing the window , but did not see me beyond its screen because she was staring at Matthew McIllvanney who seemed to fill the whole room with his malevolence . |
| 25 | But did n't give me no moneys . |
| 26 | Here was this girl who seemed to think I was capable of clearing up her troubles , but did n't think I 'd have enough brains to find out her identity . |
| 27 | ‘ He is a good , experienced crafty boxer , but did n't worry me too much . |
| 28 | Hanfmann describes ‘ a rather arrogant colleague ’ who ‘ told me that he knew I wrote good case histories , but had not expected me to be so good at theory ’ ( 1983 : 147 ) . |
| 29 | I had this idea they had booked me in for a Caesarean because I 'm small , but had n't told me . |