Example sentences of "i [verb] [not/n't] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd not seen 'er since 'fore dawn . |
| 2 | I 'd not seen him for six months . |
| 3 | He began to talk to the Colonel with animation I 'd not seen before about hunting deer from helicopters in the South Island . |
| 4 | I 'd not seen her for quite some time , you know . |
| 5 | Now I 'd not seen his work before , that 's partly because I 'm in Brighton and not in London and do n't get up that often perhaps , but he has hardly shown in England , whereas he 's very well known in Europe , using Europe for the Continent . |
| 6 | I pretending not to see , ashamed . |
| 7 | Anybody wishing if anybody wishes to ring me anyone I 'm not I 'm not you see I do n't see that serves any purpose I 'm sorry I do not think that serves any purpose if you wish to ring me outside this meeting |
| 8 | See I do n't see erm them shifting very much for that because by the time you 've got a bloke out paid his wages , paid for the the erm skip shifter , transporter you know . |
| 9 | ‘ I do not see how you can expand access by any means other than the Government paying . |
| 10 | I do not see how expansion could happen without a substantial increase in government funding . |
| 11 | He said he could not serve on that sub-committeee ( consisting of Brian Close , Bob Appleyard , Phil Sharpe , Bryan Stott , Tony Woodhouse ) ‘ when I do not see eye to eye with them on any subject ’ . |
| 12 | Therefore I do not see why tonight I might not occasionally , if the argument should lead that way , be guilty of saying in office some of the things which I have said out of office . |
| 13 | I do not see . |
| 14 | ‘ No , I do not see many head blows . |
| 15 | ‘ I do not see that anything else will do , not for the moment . |
| 16 | I do not see why I should so deliver myself up to those who are so assiduously conducting the campaign of abuse and denigration directed at me . |
| 17 | Even if I allow him to scribble down a few paragraphs of his own fiction ( and I do not see why I should ) it still follows that any words he might write must in the first instance be composed by me . |
| 18 | ‘ No , ma'am , and I do not see why I should . ’ |
| 19 | Clearly the scene was beautiful , even though I do not see London as my city . |
| 20 | If the LEA were to lay down as a condition of grant that we should have nothing to do with the University body , we should refuse the grant , and I do not see why Universities should not show the same loyalty to us . |
| 21 | If it were tastefully done , I do not see that anyone could object . |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps it is , but I do not see how our digging into Liveseys ' trading accounts — however fascinating they may be — will help us to discover the identity of our murdered girl . ’ |
| 23 | I do not see the theological basis on which we can go on saying that the human species is of such overwhelming and unique and colossal significance that it justifies as a matter of course the institutional exploitation of billions of other species . |
| 24 | I do not see any reason for using anything special , so I choose to bait with two items , bread and worms . |
| 25 | I do not see much to encourage me at all , but this does not worry me for it could be much later when they arrive , after I have left for home . |
| 26 | Uses for the foam or suggested ones , are for keeping bank vaults safe and for applying pesticides to crops without polluting the air , I do not see it catching on . |
| 27 | But with the foreign exchange shortages in many developing countries , I do not see what alternative there is in the long term . |
| 28 | But you know , what an awful Scotch thick-head I am , and that I never give up a thing , before I do not see the absolute impossibility . ’ |
| 29 | I do not see Hoffman 's hesitancies of speech , his throatbound voice that has to struggle past a colony of frogs , his eyes that crouch nervously in their sockets , as a proof of consequential ratiocination going on inside his head . |
| 30 | When people such as Martin , consult me not in order to seek help in overcoming a particular problem , but to help them to understand themselves , their motivation and their spiritual journey better , I do not see the patient at weekly or fortnightly intervals but leave gaps of anything up to six or eight weeks between visits . |