Example sentences of "time [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 The only times I do not want to be a writer are when I want to be a painter , and the only times I want to be a painter are when I am taken by the cast or mobility on a person 's face .
2 I have said many times I do not wish to hire yes-men .
3 Emma had told her several times she did not wish to be repaid .
4 ‘ It is true that I fear the part of your nature which at times you do not care to control , ’ Alexei said steadily .
5 ‘ At ordinary times we do not read novels at all , as you may imagine , but the right novel at the right moment can have a real spiritual value . ’
6 At other times they did not have transport and so did not travel .
7 The odds of an outcome are given by dividing the number of times the outcome occurred by the number of times it did not occur .
8 At this time I do not intend relinquishing the deal .
9 This time I do not fold her across my shoulder .
10 ‘ At the same time I do not suppose that a court would take the view that I am here expressing .
11 I arrived at my quarter at what time I do not know due to me being very intoxicated and when I awoke some hours later I discovered the following ’ .
12 This time I do not have to lean against a wall .
13 And the last time I did not return with the van in time for evening milking you were very cross . ’
14 This time I did not feel so angry , but I shook my head .
15 The first time I did not pay his passage money .
16 At that time I did not think of other people , and what the creature could do to them .
17 For a long time I did not know whether the notes I was accumulating would be published one day , but that did not deter me .
18 The only woman I had anything to do with regularly was my mother , aid except at meals aid bed time I did not see much even of my mother .
19 I knew that Sarah would treat the child as her own , and even take him from me , but at the time I did not mind — what was mine was hers .
20 This time she did not make the bathroom .
21 She took no interest in Rain but this time she did not care about Oliver either , or anyone else .
22 But this time she did not run .
23 This time she did not turn to shut the door .
24 At the time you do not analyse the reasons for love-affairs — they are just instinctive — they just happen .
25 ‘ We do send crime prevention officers to halls of residence to give advice but at the same time we do not want to alarm them as the number of street offences is not increasingly dramatically . ’
26 Most of the time we do not know the answer to that clearly .
27 For a long time they did not speak .
28 At least this time they do not threaten to stone Moses as they did in Exodus 17 .
29 Salmon and sea trout enter throughout the year and may remain 10 months before spawning , during which time they do not feed .
30 It would thus seem that something very like the provisions of the Kanunname were in operation by at least the early sixteenth century ; and if the sources are not sufficiently detailed to confirm the operation of the provisions of the Kanunname in every detail , at the same time they do not cast doubt upon any detail .
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