Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] i [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ As leader of the Liberal Party , ’ Steel noted in the extract enclosed , ‘ I do not think I will ever be awarded full marks for either party management or pioneering policies … ‘ |
2 | How often declared that I did not think I could possibly deserve my Pamela till I could show her a purity as nearly equal to hers . |
3 | I 'm not singing I ca n't sing . |
4 | They 're not to know I 'd never fight . ’ |
5 | ‘ But I have not said I will not come ! |
6 | If someone bought me an expensive perfumed soap , I would save it — not believing I would ever have another — until I found it years later , grubby and odourless ! |
7 | I can not I can not do I can not differentiate that I 'll tell you what I could do I 'd have no problem at all if you gave me something Y equals U squared no problem |
8 | ‘ Well , if you 're not invited I wo n't stay either . |
9 | it was fine , I just do n't do it , I just sort of standing on I 'm not walking , I 'm not moving I ca n't . |
10 | I 'm not saying I would n't have enjoyed some torrid lovemaking . ’ |
11 | I 'm not saying I would n't ever shoot vermin , though , but I 'd make sure they were dead . |
12 | I 'm not saying that and I 'm not saying I ca n't cope , but it should be a Marshal on this job so that I 'm there if anything comes up in the village , you see what I mean ? ’ |
13 | I 'm not saying I ca n't do it . |
14 | ‘ I no longer want full government funding from a government that is going to be dictatorial as hell , which is not to say I would not prefer it under a government of a different kind . ’ |
15 | If anything is not changed I will still report on it . |
16 | It was something I do n't think I 'll ever be able to forget , the twinkling tree and the boot-polished , worried faces everywhere in the darkness . |
17 | ‘ But I do n't think I 'll ever be quite so scared of cows again , ’ she added , when she told of her perilous passage through the herd and how afraid she 'd been . |
18 | I must be honest and say that I do n't think I 'll ever run that fast . |
19 | And he paused a moment until he imagined that the pain of her rheumatics had eased , and then he said , slowly but firmly , ‘ I do n't think I 'll ever marry ; in fact , I 'm sure I wo n't . ’ |
20 | " I do n't think I 'll ever be able to do that . " |
21 | I do n't think I 'll ever totally get over it . |
22 | " I do n't think I 'll ever feel anything ever again with the region I sit on , " grinned Chuck as he continued to bounce up and down on the plank bench . |
23 | I do n't think I 'll ever be the same after this week . |
24 | But there 's one date I do n't think I 'll ever forget . ’ |
25 | ‘ I do n't think I 'll ever forget , ’ she said numbly . |
26 | I hope for that , too , because I do n't think I 'll ever forgive myself . ’ |
27 | I do n't think I 'll ever again be afraid of dying . ’ |
28 | I think we 've all gradually come to terms with Jennifer 's condition and learnt to make the best of it … but … ’ she stared at her telephone as it suddenly rang , her thoughts obviously far away ‘ … but I do n't think I 'll ever forgive David Markham for the way he treated her , ’ she said at last as she stretched out her hand to answer the phone . |
29 | ‘ I do n't think I 'll ever touch soup again once we get out of here , ’ she declared with a shudder , setting her empty mug aside . |
30 | I do n't think I 'll ever master it . |