Example sentences of "i [vb base] [not/n't] [verb] i " in BNC.

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1 ‘ 'Ere , 'old on , guv , ’ said the bruiser , ‘ I du n no I go along with that .
2 Deane and Rodders up front again I du n no I 'd like to see him try for a goal poacher or someone like Ferds .
3 I du n no I , I du n no even know if he 's done it yet .
4 On return a bath , and a final word with the Guard Commander , Whom I ask not to wake me up unless something goes ‘ bang ’ .
5 Frankfurt Dear Professor , I do not feel I can talk about my parents .
6 Martin Heslop , prosecuting , said : ‘ I do not feel I can ask a jury to convict with the measure of certainty required . ’
7 ‘ But I do not feel I can do justice to that need here , in the uncomfortable cold of this cave .
8 I can honestly say now I do not feel I have subsequently ever lost a race I would have won had I been allowed to use the whip . ’
9 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 .
10 I do not think I knew who Plato was at the time , but I enjoyed hearing Mr Crossman speak , and seeing the other pupils , although they were mostly people thought of in the town as being particularly well-educated already .
11 But I do not think I have to worry about it — there is , oh there is , there really is , another kind of light between these walls , too luminous for words .
12 I could be , but I do not think I am .
13 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 . ’
14 In view of the persons who will be present , I do not think I exaggerate . ’
15 But I do not think I am in the least inferior to those ‘ super-apostles ’ .
16 I use to dread going in to work — in the two years I worked for the Inland Revenue I do not think I worked a full month — and in the end I left .
17 ‘ 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 … ‘
18 I do not think I deserved this sort of treatment .
19 The case really turned on section 78 , as to which the judge had said ‘ whilst accepting the impressive evidence of the doctor , I do not think I would be justified in excluding this confession , ’ adding ‘ I do not think that section 78 really is aimed at , in truth , the circumstances here appertaining . ’
20 I do not think I can give the petitioner superior rights .
21 I do not think I have the strength .
22 I do not think I need say anything about what is known as the three-mile limit .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 I had to conform ; I do not think I ever used the term in my reports , except in parenthesis to denote a sort of dirty word .
26 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 .
27 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 …
28 I do not think I can do any more .
29 And I do not think I 'll make it to inspector ( to inspector )
30 When asked by a pompous college dean , ‘ My good man , I do not think I know you ?
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