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

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31 Still , I have no intention of prescribing a correct attitude towards difference , even less a correct theory of difference ; I do not even know what the latter could possibly be .
32 I do not even know if I should . ’
33 In some cases , I do not even know what my own opinion is .
34 I do not yet know in what form this particular section will be published , whether as a foreword or as an interpolation into the body of my work , but I can begin to see that even here I can make something triumphant out of necessity .
35 I have not yet been given any reason for our lack of success on this occasion , and I do not yet know which were the successful applicants .
36 I do not yet know what I will do next , but it will not be full-time with Hanson plc .
37 I do not yet understand it , but although I was once a keen and proud European , there are things in it that would now make me one of the most sceptical .
38 I do not yet have a programme for 1984/5 and we always hope to send staff on courses as they are advertised , so this is n't programmed … ’
39 I do not yet have the exact date but I expect it will be some time during March or April — more likely April .
40 No , I do not wish to give any sort of name to it because I do not yet grasp the true meaning of this ‘ presence' : all that I sense , however vaguely , is that it or he or He is not hostile .
41 I share AA Miller 's sense of outrage at the crimes he lists ( Points of View , today ) , but I do not thereupon throw reason out of the window .
42 I do not however think the engine when running has any wear problems to cause low oil pressure and have some vague thought that when a remote oil filter is fitted high up you have to remove the pressure release valve or do something or other .
43 I do not however think the Court of Appeal can have intended to exclude all information in Goulding J's second category from possible protection by a restrictive covenant .
44 I do not however believe that he exonerates himself .
45 I do not however accept that in addition to the hours of care which she provides at home during the school holidays that there should also be an enabler for twenty hours per week as she suggests that would mean that the number of hours of care , and I appreciate of course , that there is some artificiality in dealing with this in pure terms of numbers of hours of care , but nevertheless it provides a sort of common denominator , which can give some indication , that would mean no less than ninety hours of boarding and care per week fifty during the week erm and twenty during the weekend and a further twenty for the enabler , I think that that er is too great and I make no allowance for an enabler at home .
46 I do not however consider that Viscount Kilmuir was intending to state that any payment in response to any unlawful demand could be recovered .
47 Erm , I do not personally like that because I like the discipline of writing things out again for reasons which I will explain in boring detail in a while .
48 I do not personally consider that there is a need for a fourth boat .
49 I do not truly know what it is like to have a child with Down 's Syndrome ’ ( Cunningham 1982 : 16 ) .
50 I do not therefore think that support for the Woolwich principle can be derived from this case .
51 I do not therefore think either of these cases successfully enables counsel for the yard to avoid the rule in Stilk v. Myrick …
52 I do not therefore consider that I should be departing from the Vice-Chancellor 's decision by reaching a different conclusion on the present Act .
53 I do not therefore mind leaving these matters in the safe hands of the Germans , just as many nations before 1914 were content to leave them in the safe hands of the British .
54 I do not therefore wish to belittle or .
55 I do not therefore surrender my claim .
56 I do not merely spend time in Manchester — where I spend more time than anywhere else outside London and my constituency , which is my home town .
57 I do not ever recall being quite as sick and shaken as I was then , about an hour and a half ago .
58 I do not ever recall an accident .
59 ‘ As far as I am concerned diving is not an excessive calorie-consuming sport , and certainly from the numbers of divers that I see who are overweight , I do not actually believe that the statement in ‘ The Great Diving Adventure ’ , by Horace Hobbs , is actually borne out .
60 After all , I do not actually hate my Richard .
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