Example sentences of "i do not [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 These difficult questions should so far as possible be confined to those fields of law to which they are immediately relevant and I do not regard them as relevant questions under the Theft Act 1968 , ’
2 These difficult questions should so far as possible be confined to those fields of law to which they are immediately relevant and I do not regard them as relevant questions under the Theft Act 1968 " .
3 I neither would nor could have murdered him , but I do not regard him as a loss . ’
4 The the only job which I told Neil I do not expect him to take is working for waste disposal because he did that , this time last year and before he started he was full of big talk about you make a lot of money and you get a lot of tips at Christmas he found that you do not make a lot of money and you do not get generous tips at Christmas
5 I believe that the new generation of " 16 bit " machines ( such as the ACT Sirius 1 ) will prove to be well capable of meeting these demands If I may be permitted one small advertisement , I do not expect it to be long before I can fulfil my objective of promoting the use of micros in personnel through the marketing of systems developed specifically for this field .
6 ‘ Ethel , ’ continued Miss Hardbroom , ‘ just because you happen to be an excellent scholar and one of the most helpful members of my class , I do not expect you to lie your way out of a situation when it has become awkward .
7 I do not expect you to understand . ’
8 I do not expect you to haggle , for example , but an element of bartering over hours and conditions can improve your working life considerably .
9 I do not expect you to agree with me on everything .
10 As Cohen ( 1984 : 227 ) points out : ‘ by detachment I do not mean we have to distance ourselves emotionally ; that I think would be perverse .
11 I do not mean you should love them any less , but discipline is very important and must be started from the outset .
12 I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms .
13 ‘ Given a level playing field , I do not feel we have much to fear , ’ he said .
14 Frankfurt Dear Professor , I do not feel I can talk about my parents .
15 Martin Heslop , prosecuting , said : ‘ I do not feel I can ask a jury to convict with the measure of certainty required . ’
16 ‘ But I do not feel I can do justice to that need here , in the uncomfortable cold of this cave .
17 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 . ’
18 There is a significant difference , and I do not feel it is only a class and an age difference , between the spare dignity of the oath Marco has learned from his early years and the oath which the Rat has devised as part of the game he has created for his Club :
19 I do not feel it necessary to add anything about the numerous authorities referred to in the learned arguments addressed to us , because the decision turns on a question of fact , whether the consideration for the promise is proved as pleaded .
20 Again , I do not feel she would have had any disposable income from her grant at college or part time earnings .
21 I do NOT want him going to some —
22 This is not because it is so special or secret that I do not want to divulge it — indeed the patient will remember it quite well for himself — but because I do not want him to listen to that tape at some future date and begin to regress himself when I am not there to take charge of the situation .
23 I do not want him to return now .
24 Death would be too kind an end for a man who has done what he has , and I do not want him to escape into it . ’
25 I do not want her ; I have never wanted her .
26 I do not want them buried under mounds of paper . ’
27 I DO not want us to be a little England , impoverished , devoid of influence , sour in isolation , languishing either on the sidelines of Europe or of history .
28 I shall certainly look at that , but this is exactly the sort of issue in which I do not want us to get involved .
29 ‘ Because I do not want us to stop being friends .
30 I am being a trifle cunning in this , as I do not want you to forget me .
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