Example sentences of "not [vb infin] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When asked by a pompous college dean , ‘ My good man , I do not think I know you ? |
| 2 | ‘ I was playing in a particular game and did not think I had done anything spectacular at all when I was approached by Heffernan who told me that he wanted me for the Ireland team to play Australia in the Compromise Rules series , ’ recalls McGilligan . |
| 3 | I do not think I deserved this sort of treatment . |
| 4 | I do not think I knew who Plato was at the time , but I enjoyed hearing Mr Crossman speak , and seeing the other pupils , although they were mostly people thought of in the town as being particularly well-educated already . |
| 5 | Even so , if you consider the pressures contingent on me that night , you may not think I delude myself unduly if I go so far as to suggest that I did perhaps display , in the face of everything , at least in some modest degree a ‘ dignity ’ worthy of someone like Mr Marshall — or come to that , my father . |
| 6 | In view of the persons who will be present , I do not think I exaggerate . ’ |
| 7 | I did not think I noticed as the car drew level |
| 8 | Thee will not think I talk figuratively when I tell thee that his pine apple stove is sixty feet long , twenty feet wide and height proportionable . |
| 9 | But I do not think I have to worry about it — there is , oh there is , there really is , another kind of light between these walls , too luminous for words . |
| 10 | I do not think I have the strength . |
| 11 | After his signature , he added : ‘ P.S. Do not think I stole the plate , linen , etc. from you . |
| 12 | I use to dread going in to work — in the two years I worked for the Inland Revenue I do not think I worked a full month — and in the end I left . |
| 13 | You 'll not ketch me complaining about my lot |
| 14 | No logical reason , he wrote , but that will not make me change my plans once I have begun . |
| 15 | It can not make me change my mind , so if you intend using it use it and shoot me now . |
| 16 | The Secretary of State 's comments today were so shabby and his speech was so shallow that he did not make me laugh . |
| 17 | I have been reassured on countless occasions that a hypnotist can not make me do anything against my will . |
| 18 | I really can not find fault with this book except to say that even splendid photography can not make me love all of Piffetti 's furniture . |
| 19 | But we have come out to catch that prisoner , and the Devil himself will not make me turn back . ’ |
| 20 | Eventually Mrs Webster explained that she had had an evacuee before me , who had ‘ breathed on the wall ’ , and she did not want me to do likewise . |
| 21 | ‘ But you do not want me to do an article for the City Press ? ’ |
| 22 | When I first came my husband did not want me to go out to work . |
| 23 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |
| 24 | My father and Elizabeth did not want me to go to England alone , because I had been so ill . |
| 25 | Felipe did not want me to go but my father listened to no one . |
| 26 | They did not want me to stop work to write or to see them . |
| 27 | Later I found that Mains did not want me watching his team train ‘ because I knew too much about rugby ’ and would tell the opposition of his plans . |
| 28 | ( My ex-husband did not want me working in Oman with him , and even when I was in the UK arranging the divorce he took steps to prevent me returning to Oman to teach until he had himself left the country in 1987 . ) |
| 29 | No ! he would shout , and make it clear that we would not discuss it … he used an expletive that I have not used , indicating that he did not want me to raise that subject with him . ’ |
| 30 | I told myself that I had to face up to things ; John might have forgotten me , he might have been changed beyond recognition by his experiences ; he would not want me to mope . |