Example sentences of "[not/n't] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | His biggest problem was that because of the way things work in academic life , regardless of whether or not I changed my lectures from one year to the next , I was just about unsackable . |
| 2 | My argument for functionalism is therefore critically dependent on whether or not I can convince you that progress in one of these areas — cognitive neuropsychology — is unlikely to be simply an illusion . |
| 3 | Not I , certainly . |
| 4 | Whether Moore was actually offered money or not I have no idea . ’ |
| 5 | Do not I fill heaven and earth ? ’ |
| 6 | The ‘ I ’ is not I , nor yet quite Miller , nor you . |
| 7 | Do not I fill heaven and earth , if heaven and earth are words on my page ? |
| 8 | The servicemen were always very helpful in hauling one aboard , but I was not in uniform and I always felt they must be wondering whether or not I had any right to travel . |
| 9 | If not I 'll remain immobilized at my place , tied hand and foot … and in whose interest would that be ? |
| 10 | When visiting a foreign country , for example , I may feel that I have reason to obey its laws on the ground that if I do not I may bring the reputation of my university into disrepute . |
| 11 | ‘ Not I , child . |
| 12 | So that I had two homes really , because as often as not I was down at her house , as in my own home . ’ |
| 13 | And his head was spinning from walking so far ; he walked everywhere , and though he stopped to eat every day when he was on one of these journeys of his he did not I expect eat especially properly . |
| 14 | As it happened , I had that same morning been giving thought to the dilemma of whether or not I was expected to reciprocate my employer 's bantering , and had been seriously worried at how he might be viewing my repeated failure to respond to such openings . |
| 15 | He turned to his sons demanding to know whether there was or was not to be a baptism party that night , and whether or not I would be the only white present . |
| 16 | Paul expressed it in this way : ‘ I live ; yet not I , but Christ lives in me . ’ |
| 17 | We were allowed to help with the work of the farm , although more often than not I suspect we hindered the wheels of labour . |
| 18 | This may sound ridiculous , but I have recently met a very nice man , the same age as me , similar tastes , sense of humour , not exactly good-looking but perfectly presentable , and I 'm wondering whether or not I should marry him . |
| 19 | Whether he suspects anything or not I do not know . |
| 20 | It was not I who erected it ! ’ |
| 21 | Whether or not the rough parch at 85mph ( or 2500rpm on the revcounter ) was peculiar to the test car or not I can not say ; if it is common to all , it is very disappointing , and the fact that you can drive through it is of little compensation since at higher speeds there is enough wind roar for two cars . |
| 22 | I am simply glad that in the modest glades of Barnes Common I can enjoy my peacocks , purple hairstreaks and red admirals , and never have to worry about whether or not I have set eyes on a yellow-legged tortoiseshell or a Higgins 's anomalous blue . |
| 23 | I did n't care whether or not I lost . |
| 24 | Though whether he minded or not I 'd no idea . |
| 25 | If you do close then it will pretty conclusively solve my dilemma about whether or not I could have afforded to tap 50 quid out of my grant for a subscription next term . |
| 26 | You think me strange but it is not I who is strange — it is the truth that you find strange . |
| 27 | But unless I talked out the issue with others , or wrote it up in my diary , it may be far from clear even to myself whether or not I did verbally formulate the alternatives . |
| 28 | If I reply that in choosing between flavours it does not matter whether or not I confound a present taste with remembered sight and touch , whether I respond to reality or to illusion , I am renouncing rational discourse altogether . |
| 29 | ‘ Shall not I be chained like a prisoner to a child for the rest of my life ? |
| 30 | Why did not I think of it before ? |