Example sentences of "[pers pn] simply [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Lucienne Palmer : ‘ I was so greedy for Oxford Life that I simply did not do enough work , I know . |
| 2 | ‘ I simply did not think of it . ’ |
| 3 | I simply did not want to play and confess that I was close to giving up completely . |
| 4 | It should be clear from the previous chapters that although I still had some sense of personal identity when I became anorexic , I simply did not have the opportunity or know-how to form an Eriksonian ego identity . |
| 5 | Certain information asked for , I simply did not have . |
| 6 | It was then that I resolved to enjoy the rest of the year , accept that I simply did not have the talent to make the professional grade , and find a job . |
| 7 | I simply do not understand why Britain should provide a free international health service or why the health service should not benefit from outside contributions . |
| 8 | ‘ I am sorry , I simply do not understand , I can not follow what you are saying at all , ’ Alida Thorne said . |
| 9 | I simply do not have the manpower to make arrests in the teeth of such concerted action . |
| 10 | I simply do not see the need to exalt one code by denigrating the other . |
| 11 | ‘ I simply do not accept … that there was any avoidable delay in detecting and acting on the evidence of Opren ’ . |
| 12 | I simply do not know , at least not if the properties are to be non-trivial , and more than an acceptance of certain machines into the category of human beings by fiat or polite convention . |
| 13 | At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood . |
| 14 | For a period in the 1950s she flirted with Roman Catholicism , and whether her Catholic point of view made her see moral issues exclusively within a religious framework , or whether she simply did not share the same experience as English-born-and-raised writers who faced the dissolution of their class system is difficult to judge . |
| 15 | She simply did not know , although deep in her heart she feared that what she felt for Nicky Scott Wilson was not true love . |
| 16 | She realised she simply did not know whether Amy had that sort of specialist skill . |
| 17 | The only part of her personal life in Hong Kong which was different was Damian Flint , and the threat he represented was so great she simply did not know how to deal with it . |
| 18 | She simply did not know what they were on about . |
| 19 | You simply do not admit the possibility that your mother is being whimsical , and that these two eggs were exceptional . |
| 20 | After all , you simply do not expect a newly-arrived wild fish , especially one being subjected to a ‘ blue period ’ , to be so tame . |
| 21 | You simply do not have the time for the ‘ one — pause — two ’ sequences so beloved in basic training . |
| 22 | You simply do not have enough data . |
| 23 | You simply did not do that sort of thing to men like Luke Denner ! |
| 24 | ‘ And you simply did not mind , for all this boasting was conducted with such energy and hyperbolical humour , such a wry , sardonic , self-mocking edge , that you would soon be involved in a positive orgy of mockery and badinage against institutions , received opinions , each other 's supposed abilities . |
| 25 | Occasionally we hear of staff abuse and there is outrage , but more often than not we simply do not think of what it means to be old or shut away . |
| 26 | Writing or speaking tasks which do not clearly specify the receiver make even native-speaking students tongue-tied , and not surprisingly , for we simply do not talk or write into vacuums . |
| 27 | It also challenges my attitude to the more superficially respectable , whom we simply do not want to get on with , and strive earnestly to keep at arm 's length . |
| 28 | If we choose not to attend to the higher-level activity during cycling we simply do not notice our surroundings and may take an incorrect route . |
| 29 | ‘ We simply do not have enough money . ’ |
| 30 | We simply do not have enough evidence yet to back up the claim that ‘ people are almost certainly ill , dead , or dying because of these sloppy waste disposal activities ’ ( Openshaw et al. 1989 : 12 ) . |