Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] i [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I do not think I 'll make it to inspector ( to inspector ) |
| 2 | I did not think I would stay with the band forever . |
| 3 | Do you not think I would know if he was still alive , especially if he was living here in Beirut ? ’ |
| 4 | Now I have nothing against Terry as a person , although I do not think I would cross the road to help him if he were run over by a lorry , but that is neither here nor there . |
| 5 | I do not think I need say anything about what is known as the three-mile limit . |
| 6 | I do not think I can give the petitioner superior rights . |
| 7 | Another asked for the name of a good travel agent , while a third declared : ‘ I do not think I can bear another five years of Andrew Lloyd Webber ; I 'm off . ’ |
| 8 | Let us pretend that it is only that Grainne is too far above me , and let us continue the pretence , for I do not think I can bear it any other way . |
| 9 | I do not think I can bear this , thought Grainne , but even as the thought was framed , she knew that for someone it had had to be borne , there had been no escaping it , this bottomless dark pit , this vast endless night sea … |
| 10 | I am afraid that I must say frankly that I do not think I can open the columns of the Q.R. — at any rate , at present — to any one associated publicly with such a publication as Blast . |
| 11 | I do not think I can do any more . |
| 12 | Sometimes I thought that within a few months I would be back in Le Court , because I did not think I could continue . |
| 13 | ‘ I really do not think I could manage my affairs without her assistance . ’ |
| 14 | If I had not had the support of Project 81 members , the head of care at Le Court and other friends , I do not think I could have survived . |
| 15 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 16 | ‘ Effendi , ’ he whispered , ‘ I — I do not think I should say . ’ |
| 17 | Sums of money I am describing tonight are large , revenue and capital spending combined , of over three thousand million pounds is many times the amount spent by quangos in Wales outside the health service and the grant represents a large share of my total budget for Wales and I hope members opposite are not suggesting I should cut spending on health , that is a vital service which I thought they supported as well . |
| 18 | Later , when I was more familiar with the beliefs and practices of the movement and had ‘ learned the language ’ , I would interact with the Moonies as though I were one of them , and , although I never pretended that I accepted their beliefs or that I was anything other than a sociologist studying the movement , members who did not know me would mistake me for a member — the Moonies themselves were no longer ‘ translating ’ for me when we were interacting . |
| 19 | ‘ I told the IFA that if we got to the World Cup finals and they wanted me to stay on I would and if we did not qualify I would stand down , ’ says Bingham . |
| 20 | I did not feel I should miss his company , and the fact that I should have no fellow-countryman with me to take charge if I fell sick or was wounded did not worry me , since I had every confidence in Omar . |
| 21 | " But I told him I did not feel I should play . |
| 22 | ‘ But I do not feel I can do justice to that need here , in the uncomfortable cold of this cave . |
| 23 | Frankfurt Dear Professor , I do not feel I can talk about my parents . |
| 24 | Martin Heslop , prosecuting , said : ‘ I do not feel I can ask a jury to convict with the measure of certainty required . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ If I did not believe I could lift Darlington I would not have taken the job . |
| 26 | Although I did not understand I could see that they were discussing the problem . |
| 27 | If I felt compelled to hold that the taxpayer in this case could not recover I would share the no little regret expressed by my noble and learned friend , Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle . |
| 28 | I would get a better , I 'm not saying I 'd get a better shine than that . |
| 29 | I 'm not saying I 'd have been good for him or him for me , but it did provide a link in a chain that was to tie me to glory in the Open . |
| 30 | I 'm not saying I can give you a figure , all I can say is that originally identifiable will not be forthcoming now because some of this proposal is not meeting them . |