Example sentences of "not [verb] i [vb base] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | In view of the persons who will be present , I do not think I exaggerate . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I do not think I have the strength . |
| 7 | cos it 's not raining I do n't know what I 'm talking about |
| 8 | ‘ You 're not suggesting I turn up like Lady Godiva ? |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I 'm not sayin' I believe it , mind , but I want to know about that happy-birthday message . |
| 10 | When I am not writing I draw . |
| 11 | But you can not expect I mean we was actually lucky there was a job there now , when it closed down . |
| 12 | Age does not matter I like reading , travelling , making friends and photography . |
| 13 | ‘ Now will you wait for me here in the dark till I take back the keys , and not imagine I 've locked you in to starve ? |
| 14 | I 've started I 've not written I know but I 've started |
| 15 | If this is not done I do n't think there will be any credibility left for any of us in the international community or in the United Nations . ’ |
| 16 | If you had not confessed I think I would have beaten it out of you . ’ |
| 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 | She wrote back to him careful little letters to which no one could object , fearing to display too much emotion in case it called attention to the boy 's over-regard for her but she managed all the same to make her affection felt , telling him : — Pilade looks for you everywhere and will not believe I have not hidden you in a box . |
| 19 | I it is not envisaged I mean I must n't mislead you at all I want I want to be understood on this issue . |
| 20 | ‘ I can not claim I know Mr Peckham . |
| 21 | It 's not going I think it is . |
| 22 | I was n't playing well for the rest of the team , and that is one of my strengths , because even when I 'm not scoring I know I can contribute . |
| 23 | But that 's it , I 'm not buying I 've got a couple of boxes of chocolates we bought from Tescos did n't we ? |
| 24 | Mr Beckenham , however , would not have me disturb you on the matter . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Indeed she does , but she will not have me write to her . ’ |
| 26 | does not have me cling too hard |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm not saying I lose sleep about it , but the prospect of making a howler in front of millions of people is a worry . |
| 28 | I 'm not saying I condone it , ’ he interpreted her look , ‘ but at the moment maybe it 's all she has to protect her from feelings of inadequacy . ’ |
| 29 | Of course I was not saying I see people elbowed in the face 200 times a week . |
| 30 | Well , I 'm not saying I see it quite like that , I mean , that 's the mythology … ’ |