Example sentences of "i [vb base] [not/n't] see " in BNC.

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1 I do not see how you can expand access by any means other than the Government paying .
2 I do not see how expansion could happen without a substantial increase in government funding .
3 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 ’ .
4 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 .
5 I do not see .
6 ‘ No , I do not see many head blows .
7 I do not see that anything else will do , not for the moment .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 ‘ No , ma'am , and I do not see why I should . ’
11 Clearly the scene was beautiful , even though I do not see London as my city .
12 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 .
13 If it were tastefully done , I do not see that anyone could object .
14 ‘ 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 . ’
15 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 .
16 I do not see any reason for using anything special , so I choose to bait with two items , bread and worms .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 But with the foreign exchange shortages in many developing countries , I do not see what alternative there is in the long term .
20 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 . ’
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 Furthermore , I do not see that fastening a label from ancient philosophy upon Wordsworth — in this case to call him a ‘ Pantheist ’ — is particularly helpful ; we are simply consigning him to a museum of dead ideas .
24 I do not see that a poet who can write like this in old age , again like Thomas Hardy , deserves to be sneered at and abused with phrases like ‘ fossilized ’ and ‘ quite dead ’ .
25 An irritated Dutch official said : ‘ If the Danes can do it with a referendum by July , I do not see why the British would need a longer time . ’
26 I do not see it that way , but it 's all been built up now .
27 I do not see them at all .
28 ‘ There will be grievous division , which I do not see resolving itself . ’
29 I do not see the point in raking over old coals , ’ he said philosophically .
30 ‘ Oh , I do not see us duelling … ever . ’
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