Example sentences of "i [vb base] [not/n't] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but did it look authentic with the thing , I mean not to the extent of |
| 2 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
| 3 | But for the dressing-up ghosts it just about sends them crazy , after all that bother , finding the right clothes , and often arranging to carry their heads in funny places — I mean not on their necks — and then the lifer just does n't take any notice . |
| 4 | ‘ They do n't live together — I mean not in the same place , ’ he added conscientiously . |
| 5 | Yeah , and I say , you know I mean obviously it 's too big but I mean not from from the point of view that the buildings are right outside of them ai n't they ? |
| 6 | People often say to me do n't you get sick of eating ice cream working here … and I say not at all with the wonderful products we make |
| 7 | I speak not as a lawyer but as a politician . |
| 8 | And indeed it 's a sign of the times that I speak not with a mitre metaphorically upon my head but perhaps the glengarry of the convenorship of the Central Council of ACTS and therefore I am in part your servant here . |
| 9 | ‘ But I hope not for two weeks — and then with any luck not on a Friday , or I may have to ask Doctor Masters to deputise for me . ’ |
| 10 | My constituents who are in prison — I hope not for too long — are becoming increasingly disaffected . |
| 11 | There is a tendency , I I hope not of er this management team but there is a tendency of some people who who might be employed in future to feel that solutions can be obtained by purchasing and I 'm not always convinced that that is the case . |
| 12 | His self defence , and I now read from actually only a paragraph or so earlier than my opening passage , his self defence in the reason of Church government is quite interesting erm ‘ If I hunted after praise by the ostentation of wit and learning , I should not write thus out of mine own season , when I have neither yet completed to my mind the full circle of my private studies , although I complain not of any insufficiency to the matter in hand , or were I ready to my wishes it were a folly to commit anything elaborately composed to the careless and interrupted listening of these tumultuous times . |
| 13 | ‘ I know not for sure . |
| 14 | ( iii ) From their reading of pre-20th century literature , pupils should be encouraged to identify some of the major changes in English grammar over the centuries , eg the loss — except in some dialects and in religious uses — of thee and thou ; the simplification of the verb system eg from have , hast , hath , to have and has ; the change in the structure of negatives eg from I know not to I do n't know . |
| 15 | I arrived at Skaftafell to find several groups of campers , all wild-eyed outdoor types , I suppose not unlike me . |
| 16 | No I suppose not in a sense , but there again we should be because like you 've just explained , why should they give themselves a |
| 17 | The position of a lessee after assignment towards his lessor in relation to the covenants in his lease is concluded in this court , and I doubt not in all courts , by the decision of Baynton v. Morgan , 22 Q.B.D. 74 . |
| 18 | On a personal note , may I say that when I want to hear the Fourth Symphony for pleasure , which is relatively speaking often , I turn not to Munch or Dutoit but to an old tape I have from 1954 of the much underrated Albert Wolff conducting the Swedish Radio Orchestra . |
| 19 | I try not to look , but you can see her boobies and that . |
| 20 | I try not to , but I just ca n't stop . |
| 21 | I try not to . |
| 22 | " I try not to be , sir , but I 've never met anyone like you before . |
| 23 | I try not to . |
| 24 | ‘ I try not to be as foolish u the doctor , and not to blunder in where the Inspector wishes to go quietly . |
| 25 | People say I 'm temperamental , but at least I try not to be ! |
| 26 | ‘ I try not to , ’ mumbles Ludo . |
| 27 | I try not to though , I mean that 's her responsibility , I buy the plants and she puts them in the garden , er in the . |
| 28 | Having asked the question , he offered no personal answer : ‘ Like jesting Pilate , I stay not for an answer : though the question awaits our collective resolution ’ . |
| 29 | I do not at this precise moment , therefore , feel quite as wretched as I did this morning after using the public telephone or as bewildered and terrorized as I did this afternoon while sitting half-frozen on the trembling suspension bridge across the sleazy Thames . |
| 30 | If there is indeed any foundation for these fears — which I do not at all suppose , for why should he not have contacted me if he was in such trouble ? — I shall settle the matter at once . |