Example sentences of "i [verb] not [verb] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat up feeling strangely light-headed and carefree ; maybe I 'd not had much sleep , but at least I had beaten the organist , at least I 'd been spared the Magnificat on an empty stomach . |
| 2 | I started not having much time for the French and the Walloons , which is to say the French-speaking Belgians , when I found myself among them in 1944 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I do not think much of the House of Lords anyhow , but it is essential for the proper performance of parliamentary government that the major Bills — this is one — are introduced first in this House . |
| 6 | But I do not put much weight on this second ground , for great as may be the importance of putting out a fire , it is not sufficiently great to justify the driver in leaving a trail of destruction behind him . ’ |
| 7 | Beyond this , I do not accept much of the Freudian mythological apparatus , though Civilization and its Discontents has always seemed to me a penetrating if deeply pessimistic work of cultural analysis . |
| 8 | I do not remember much of the actual golf , but what I do recall is an eager young man infectiously happy over his win and sharing the emotion with an appreciative crowd . |
| 9 | I do not know much about gods ; but I think that the river |
| 10 | Accordingly , I do not derive much assistance from the definitions of natural justice which have been from time to time used , but , whatever standard is adopted , one essential is that the person concerned should have a reasonable opportunity of presenting his case . |
| 11 | I confess I do not find much relevance in this to the death penalty . |
| 12 | I do not recall much of the plot but all through childhood and beyond I have remained haunted by vivid remembered images : little leprechauns in mad underground celebration dancing round pots of gold , leaping over plundered treasures ; Michael and Katy skipping hand in hand through the fields ; the jaunty , laughing , Guinness swilling , devil may care Darby with his pub stories , his sideways philosophy and his battles of wit with the wily King Brian of the leprechauns ; but mainly , and most frighteningly , the dreaded death coach with its headless coachman come to call Darby 's soul on the one way trip to hell . |
| 13 | I do not see much to encourage me at all , but this does not worry me for it could be much later when they arrive , after I have left for home . |
| 14 | That would take capital , and I do not have much money . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll handle this , ’ said Dad ‘ Look Amy , you mother and I do not have much money . |
| 16 | I did not think much of the CPRS blunderbuss which seemed to be aimed firmly at the Government 's feet . |
| 17 | I slept for only a short time each night , and I did not eat much food . |
| 18 | I did not pay much attention to it as the time , because we had n't decided which peak we were going to attempt . |
| 19 | Certainly , judging by his appearance as he lay on the ground , I did not give much for his chances . |
| 20 | I did not give much thought to the possibility of their innocence and in fact thought that they were both involved with Mathews in the crime . |
| 21 | Again , although I visited her regularly , taking little presents ; remembered her birthday and saw to it that her sons did the same ; looked after her once when she was ill ; and respected my husband 's love for her , I did not take much notice of her suggestions : ‘ My mother seems to think … |
| 22 | I did not know much of what had gone on . |
| 23 | I did not hear much she was saying , as I was thinking of Margaret and how impossible it would be to get Gwenellen , or anyone else in Benedict 's with the obvious exception of Old Red , to believe the real truth , if I attempted to explain it . |
| 24 | I am not quite sure who it was I sat next to because I am such a slow eater that I did not have much time for conversation . |
| 25 | I only know I did not have much fun this summer . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Though I had worked out every detail for me and the wheelbarrow , I had not given much thought to the Land Rover . |
| 28 | ‘ Marriage will be the end of his talent , ’ Bonamy predicted , though I had not seen much talent in the poems Robin had so far shown me . |
| 29 | Because I had not done much mathematics at school or at Oxford , I found general relativity very difficult at first and did not make much progress . |
| 30 | I 've not eaten much but chocolate ! |