Example sentences of "do [not/n't] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 31 | Pitting my brain against Mr Kent 's maths test did not make me happy . |
| 32 | Though he did not make me as starry-eyed as Daisy Yates , he was the best-looking man of any age I had ever seen , and I adored his old-fashioned manners . |
| 33 | She was astounded , and did not make me much wiser . ’ |
| 34 | The only consolation I have is that he did not make me pregnant . |
| 35 | The Secretary of State 's comments today were so shabby and his speech was so shallow that he did not make me laugh . |
| 36 | The man talked non-stop and did not expect me to contribute . |
| 37 | Indeed , I have every reason to believe that Father did not regard me as decorative at all . |
| 38 | He has been to my constituency recently , although he did not inform me of the fact . |
| 39 | Your Mr may have explained the position to Joe of Samuel McCauls Limited when he was over in Northern Ireland last September , but Joe did not inform me of your company 's position . |
| 40 | You did not choose me , I chose you and appointed you to go and bear much fruit , the kind of fruit that endures and the Father will give you whatever you ask of him in my name . |
| 41 | I did not realise I had hurt you . ’ |
| 42 | There was not enough action and they were just too predictable , that they simply did not scare me but surely the point of a horror book is to scare you ? |
| 43 | I did not think I would stay with the band forever . |
| 44 | I have added a 40W actinic and a reflector as I did not think I was seeing the true colours of my fish . |
| 45 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 46 | Sometimes I thought that within a few months I would be back in Le Court , because I did not think I could continue . |
| 47 | How often declared that I did not think I could possibly deserve my Pamela till I could show her a purity as nearly equal to hers . |
| 48 | I did not think I noticed as the car drew level |
| 49 | ‘ 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 . |
| 50 | The Minister did not answer me earlier when I tried to raise a point about the period of between six and 16 months . |
| 51 | But that did not perturb me . |
| 52 | But I was surprised to find that Bessie did not scold me at all . |
| 53 | It would be better if you did not anger me . " |
| 54 | But this did not mean I was happy with it , or knew , precisely , when and how I could carry it out . |
| 55 | Gust becos I cud not spel It did not mean I was daft When the boys in school red my riting Some of them laffed But now I am the dictater They have to rite like me Utherwise they can not pas Ther GCSE Some of the girls wer ok But those who laffed a lot Have al bean rownded up And have recintly bean shot The teecher who corrected my speling As not been shot at al But four the last fifteen howers As bean standing up against a wal He has to stand ther until he can spel Figgymisgrugifooniyn the rite way I think he will stand ther forever I just inventid it today |
| 56 | But your father did not love me , James . |
| 57 | It was sad for me that I had fallen in love with someone who did not love me , but it was not an experience I cared to repeat — for more and better reasons than the fear of pain . |
| 58 | William and Justine died because you did not love me . |
| 59 | Three sons I had given him , and still he did not love me as I was so desperate to be loved . |
| 60 | ‘ And , ’ she went on , ‘ I was compelled to end my engagement to Havvie when I discovered that he did not love me at all … merely wanted Papa 's dollars , and , worse , despised us , all of us , for being rich and vulgar Yankees . |