Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I 'll never know how I did not tell anybody . |
| 2 | How I did not develop pneumonia I shall never know , my sciatic nerve was outraged by this treatment , and fortunately I was taken back to Fulmer House . |
| 3 | It is true that William Cobbett , born in 1766 , was to write , " I do not remember the time when I did not earn my living " , but he was the son of a moderately successful small farmer in a district where hop growing enabled a decent living from small acreages for a family with three sons to help work it . |
| 4 | ‘ My old friend , my youth , ’ he wrote to her afterwards , ‘ during the long years I have lived without knowing your whereabouts , there was perhaps not a single day when I did not think of you . ’ |
| 5 | For my part , there can hardly have been a day when I did not think of Eliot , when his growing prestige was not a source of immense satisfaction and pride to me , and when personal news about him , however brief , was more than welcome at such distance than propinquity without meeting would have been . |
| 6 | For the most part , the Land Rover milometer was my measure , but there was never a day when I did not walk more . |
| 7 | And then it got to the stage when I did not want to , ’ she is alleged to have said . |
| 8 | Suppose that it is known that a financial expert reaches the ‘ right ’ decision ( whatever that may be ) in 20% more cases than I do when I do not rely on his advice . |
| 9 | He said he could not serve on that sub-committeee ( consisting of Brian Close , Bob Appleyard , Phil Sharpe , Bryan Stott , Tony Woodhouse ) ‘ when I do not see eye to eye with them on any subject ’ . |
| 10 | There are times when I do not believe that the Secretary of State understands what is happening in local government . |
| 11 | It was time for a film , a film I had watched before , however I did not mind as it passed the time . |
| 12 | However I do not favour this view as to my mind the force in this poem which awakens is one indifferent to the survival of the life it awoke . |
| 13 | However I do not recall hearing of any problem every being experienced by low-flying military hardware or cruise-level GA over Madley Earth Station which I managed for several years prior to my retirement last year , and which I believe is a much larger facility than Oakhanger . |
| 14 | However I do not propose that we too quickly problematize the concept out of existence , since some of the questions it begs , even in its inadequate form , are just the sort which need to be asked . |
| 15 | However I do not call that time wasted . |
| 16 | As part of his project of recasting psychoanalysis in post-structuralist terms , Jacques Lacan has rewritten the Cartesian cogito in a way that might be seen as approximating more to Augustine 's formulation than Descartes 's : ‘ I think where I am not , therefore I am where I do not think ’ . |
| 17 | He had just said , ‘ I have come to the point where I do not think of colour . |
| 18 | Their message was : ‘ You see why I did not want Mrs. Bonnard to hear this . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ That is why I did not arrive until late on Wednesday evening . |
| 20 | The car is not registered in my name , so I suppose that is why I did not receive a reminder . |
| 21 | I used to view the European Community as being an economic and political bloc confronting the East and COMECON , and that is why I did not believe that it was uniting Europe . |
| 22 | I shall show why I do not think — it is not what my officials think , but what I think — that I would be right to use the discretion which he correctly said lies with me . |
| 23 | That is why I do not bother to change when he calls . |