Example sentences of "i [vb base] [not/n't] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So er I I thought to myself well I du n no , I du n no all these Newton girls have been off to Sri Lanka or or , or Zaire or wherever and you 'd you know , is n't that great ? |
| 2 | I mean now , the erm the social workers erm are care managers in a lot of cases , in other words it may be contracted out to somebody else to do the actual caring and you look at the package which the client is getting , you know it might be I du n no some old dear who needs meals on wheels and visits every week or something |
| 3 | oh yeah , he also used to have this , this bell , I du n no some weirdo just |
| 4 | Erm I du n no this is somebody else 's paper so This is before I had a I worked it out as I I th I thought it 'd work out a three- four-five triangle . |
| 5 | But I do not regard these factors as justifying sweeping away the law which for so long has regulated the conduct of charitable corporations . |
| 6 | However , I do not regard this problem as insuperable . |
| 7 | I am a woman , and also a writer who has used up her allotment of renown during her own lifetime ; and on those two grounds I do not expect much pity , or much understanding , from posterity . |
| 8 | I do not expect much joy from the Minister tonight , but I give warning that , for the time I remain on these Benches , with the label on which I came here eight and a half years ago — as a Labour Member of Parliament , albeit a Member who has a label beneath his name on the TV as an expelled Labour Member — I shall bring before the House the necessary measures not just to talk about the death of the poll tax but to bury it once and for all . |
| 9 | ‘ The reason I have called you both here is to remind you that you are now second-year witches , and I do not expect this ridiculous feud between you two girls to continue . |
| 10 | I do not expect any difficulty in getting approval for the larger sum , and can do that at the same time as tenders are to hand for acceptance , but it will remain important to contain the total project cost as far as possible . |
| 11 | If you embark on using someone as your detective who is immensely superior to yourself either intellectually or in the social scale ( and by that I do not mean any conventional listing of dukes , earls , barons and honourables ) you will be heading for trouble when you try to have the sort of insights for them that they would naturally have . |
| 12 | — Clearly the words ‘ Now I am seeing this as apex ’ can not so far mean anything to a learner who has only just met the concepts of apex , base and so on — But I do not mean this as empirical proposition . |
| 13 | I do not shirk any responsibility in this matter , nor do I shirk any responsibility for the actions taken by my officials or for the way in which the Parliamentary Under-Secretary handled the case . |
| 14 | In this epistle he indicates that he himself , at the time of writing , is a solitary attracted by the disciplined life of service in a religious order , but does not feel any burning conviction that that is his calling : I confess , alas , that I do not feel that burning spiritual desire for entry into religion , inspired by that divine grace , as it ought to be felt by those who from zealous devotion and pure desire of the mind plan to enter religion … |
| 15 | He said : ‘ I do not feel any mercy for the IRA . |
| 16 | So many of our dreams , however , are mixtures of fact and fantasy that I do not feel any great reliance can be placed on what seem to be insights into our former lives when we are asleep . |
| 17 | ‘ What I meant to say is , I do not feel any animosity to you , signorina . ’ |
| 18 | I do not want such a one as that for my lady-in-waiting ! " |
| 19 | I do not want any criticisms that we may have of some home owners or some trends to detract from that important fact . |
| 20 | Who said ‘ I do not want this to look too much like a cynical photocall ’ ? |
| 21 | I do not want another family to go through what I have been through . |
| 22 | I do not make that presumption . |
| 23 | ‘ I do not make that distinction , ’ said Zeinab . |
| 24 | I do not make any apology for accepting that single millionaires will be at an advantage in that situation , but the millions of people on lowish incomes , particularly the retired , will be penalised most . |
| 25 | I do not make any award for the sums claimed from disposable income for her employment during the said , the alleged year off , since I 'm not satisfied she would have had a year off , or would have had any disposable income even if she had taken that year . |
| 26 | I do not make this point to suggest that all these theories are wrong in every detail , but to underline the importance of looking behind the apparently innocent measures on which so much of the global-system literature is based . |
| 27 | We have set up a Review Group but I do not think all action can wait on its recommendations . |
| 28 | ‘ I do not think that will necessarily prolong the deliberations and the results will be available — the further recommendations and the analysis — within a year , though I would not nominate a month , ’ he said on BBC Radio 's World At One . |
| 29 | When a representative of the London Compositors " Society was asked whether this was a " lower class of work " , he replied , with honesty , " I do not think that would be a correct term to use . |
| 30 | I do not think that is unfair or leads to an unfairness in the trial . |