Example sentences of "not [verb] [verb] i [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few years ago you would not have caught me talking about underground publishing ; I have too many bad memories from the Seventies . |
| 2 | I often thought her blindness was not entirely physical : she wanted finally to shut her eyes to the sorrows and miseries of the son she still adored , for she could not bear to see me suffering . |
| 3 | ‘ So he got me a few gigs round the Irish pubs , and I had to learn off some traditional Irish ballads quickly for the sort of audiences you got there certainly did n't want to hear me singing songs by James Taylor or Simon and Garfunkel . |
| 4 | They did n't appear to mind me playing a double game , allying with each in turn , then becoming their opponent at the next round . |
| 5 | " Not too well , " he said shortly , and then added an odd thing : " I hope being happy is n't going to stop me writing . " |
| 6 | And my Grandmother certainly would n't have wanted me going She had er her feet very firmly on the ground . |
| 7 | She would n't have liked me sleeping with him , but if you 're going to sleep with him , you get contraceptives . |
| 8 | ‘ You would n't have caught me walking the streets in my dancing shoes . ’ |
| 9 | They did n't seem to mind me hanging in there , but it was getting a bit like the ocean liner scene in the Marx brothers ' Night at the Opera . |